FF:DU1330k Connoisseurship - Course Information

DU1330k Subject Seminar: The Connoisseurship

Extent and Intensity

0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).

Teacher(s)

prof. PhDr. Lubomír Slavíček, CSc. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

prof. PhDr. Lubomír Slavíček, CSc.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: prof. PhDr. Lubomír Slavíček, CSc.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• History of Arts (programme FF, B-OT)

Course objectives

Prolegomena to the connoisseurship, one of the principal methods of the work of arthistorian in museum, in art collecting, in art trade and in the care of historical monuments.

Syllabus

• Basic topics:
• 1. Aims and limits of the connoisseurship?
• 2. Historical and stylistic critic.
• 3. Problems of attribition and datation of paintings.
• 4. Genuine or false? (original, copy, replic, false, workshop work).
• 5. History painting, portrait, landscape, still life, genre.
• 6. Origin and history of art museums.
• 7. Principles of museum work.
• 8. "Old great men" of the connoisseurship (B. Berenson, A. Bredius, W. von Bode, Th. von Frimmel, M. J. Friedländer, V. Kramář and others.

Literature

• Frimmel, Theodor von. Handbuch der Gemaeldekunde. Leipzig 1894 (1904).
• Friedlaender, Max J. On the Art and Connoissership. London 1942.
• Frimmel, Theodor von. Zur Methodik und Psychologie des Gemaeldebestimmungs. Muenchen 1905.

Assessment methods

Final written exam in a form of a test.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

Information on completion of the course: test a písemná práce na zadané téma
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.

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