DU2548 The Great Masters of the 17th Century Dutch Painting

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 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.
Timetable
Wed 13:20–14:55 B13
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The lecture is focused on the historical background of the 17th Century Dutch painting and on the oeuvre of two great representatives of its Golden Age – Rembrandt (1606-1669) and Frans Hals (c. 1580–1666).
Syllabus
  • The main topics of the lecture:
  • 1. Historical background of the 17th Century Dutch painting
  • 2. The education of artists and production of the pictures
  • 3. Guild and his function
  • 3. Patrons of art and art trade (auctions)
  • 4. Rembrandt
  • 4a. Literature on Rembrandt
  • 4b. Education and the beginnings of Rembrandt’s oeuvre
  • 4c. Rembrandt’s commissions for Prince Frederik Hendrik
  • 4d. Rembrandt and Jews
  • 4e. Night watch – the legend and reality
  • 4f. Rembrandt’s oeuvre of 1640’
  • 4g. Rembrandt’s oeuvre of 1650’
  • 4h. Rembrandt as collector
  • 4i. Rembrandt’s late oeuvre
  • 5. Frans Hals
  • 5a. Literatura
  • 5b. Education and the beginnings of Hals’s oeuvre
  • 5c. Hals’s oeuvre from 1620-1640
  • 5d. Hals’s oeuvre from 1640-1666
  • 5c. Tvorba z let 1620-1640
  • 5d. Tvorba 1640-1666
Literature
  • EKKART, Rudolf Erik Otto. Holländer im Porträt : Meisterwerke von Rembrandt bis Frans Hals. Edited by Quentin Buvelot - Marieke de Winkel. Stuttgart: Belser Verlag, 2007, 280 s. ISBN 9783763024919. info
  • DÖRING, Thomas, Gisela BUNGARTEN and Christiane PAGEL. Aus Rembrandts Kreis : die Zeichnungen des Braunschweiger Kupferstichkabinetts : Ausstellung im Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum Braunschweig, 21. September - 17. Dezember 2006. Petersberg: Michael Imhof, 2006, 192 s. ISBN 3865681883. info
  • SCHWARTZ, Gary. Das Rembrandt Buch : Leben und Werk eines Genies. Translated by Rosali Bontjes van Beek - Saskia Bontjes van Beek. München: C.H. Beck, 2006, 383 s. ISBN 3406543693. info
  • Rembrandt : Genie auf der Suche. Edited by Kristin Bahre - Michiel Franken - Jan Kelch - Bernd Wolfgang Lindemann. Köln: DuMont, 2006, 420 stran. ISBN 3832176950. info
  • STRATEN, Roelof van. Rembrandts Weg zur Kunst 1606-1632. Edited by Ingrid W. L. Moerman - Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn. Berlin: Reimer, 2006, 369 s. ISBN 3496013435. info
  • HECHT, Peter. Vincent van Gogh and Rembrandt. Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum, 2006, 71 s. ISBN 9061536820. info
  • WESTERMANN, Mariët. The art of the Dutch republic, 1585-1718. Repr. ed. London: Laurence King, 2004, 192 s. ISBN 1856694437. info
  • Art & home : Dutch interiors in the age of Rembrandt. Edited by C. Willemijn Fock - Eric J. Sluijter - H. Perry Chapman - Mariët West. Zwolle: Waanders Publishers, 2001, 240 s. ISBN 0914738461. info
  • Rembrandt, oder nicht? : Zeichnungen von Rembrandt und seinem Kreis aus den Hamburger und Bremer Kupferstichkabinetten : Kunsthalle Bremen 15. Oktober 2000 bis 21. Januar 2001. Edited by Anne Röver-Kann. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000, 184 s. ISBN 3775790446. info
  • STARCKY, Emmanuel. Rembrandt. 1. vyd. Bratislava: INA, 1992, 144 s. ISBN 80-85680-13-0. info
  • PÄCHT, Otto. Rembrandt. Edited by Edwin Lachnit. München: Prestel, 1991, 254 s. ISBN 3791311565. info
  • ALPERS, Svetlana. Rembrandt's enterprise : the studio and the market. Pbk. ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990, xvi, 160. ISBN 9780226015187. info
  • SLIVE, Seymour and Pieter BIESBOER. Frans Hals : [anläßlich der Ausstellung Frans Hals in der National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., vom 1. Oktober bis 31. Dezember 1989, in der Royal Academy of Arts, London, vom 13. Januar bis 8. April 1990, und im Frans-Hals-Museum, Haarlem, vom 11. München: Prestel, 1989, 435 s. ISBN 3791310321. info
  • SEGHERS, Anna. Juden und Judentum im Werke Rembrandts. Leipzig: Philipp Reclam jun., 1983. info
  • ŠTECH, V. V. Rembrandt. Edited by Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn. První vydání. Praha: Odeon, 1966, 485 stran. info
  • BAUCH, Kurt. Der frühe Rembrandt und seine Zeit : Studien zur geschichtlichen Bedeutung seines Frühstils. Berlin: Gebr. Mann, 1960, 284 s. info
Assessment methods
Qualifying exam
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught only once.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2001, Autumn 2004, Spring 2005.
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