DU2670m Death and Commemorance in the Early Modern Visual Culture

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2015
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 4 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: k (colloquium). Other types of completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Pavel Suchánek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Pavel Suchánek, Ph.D.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. Mgr. Pavel Suchánek, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 14:10–15:45 K31
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 course explores the meanings behind an astonishing range of visual artifacts connected with death, and describes the attitudes and practices which lay behind their production and use during the Renaissance and Baroque.
Syllabus
  • Examples of topics: - Attitudes toward mortality and death in the Early Modern Europe - Images of Death: Ars moriendi; Memento mori; Vanitas; Danse Macabre - Salvation: epitaphs; images of purgatory; role of religious brotherhoods and their patronage - Ceremonials: royal funerals; ephemeral buildings; Castrum doloris - Commemoration: sepulchral art, tombs and other memorial projects; forms, iconography, function; individual and collective representation - New mentalities around 1800: modern graveyards; public memorials
Literature
  • ARIÈS, Philippe. Dějiny smrti. Translated by Danuše Navrátilová. Vyd. 1. Praha: Argo, 2000, 410 s. ISBN 8072032933. info
  • ARIÈS, Philippe. Dějiny smrti. Translated by Danuše Navrátilová. Vyd. 1. Praha: Argo, 2000, 358 s. ISBN 8072032860. info
  • LLEWELLYN, Nigel. The art of death : visual culture in the English death ritual, c. 1500-c. 1800. Repr. London: Reaktion Books, 1997, 160 s. ISBN 0948462167. info
  • PANOFSKY, Erwin. Tomb sculpture : four lectures on its changing aspects from Ancient Egypt to Bernini. Edited by H. W. Janson - Martin Warnke. London: Phaidon Press, 1992, 319 s. ISBN 0714828246. info
  • Church and death :the institutionalization of death in the early modern times. Edited by Martin Holý - Jiří Mikulec. Praha: Historický ústav, 2007, 301 s. ISBN 9788072861064. info
  • LLEWELLYN, Nigel. Funeral monuments in post-Reformation England. 1st pub. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, xxviii, 47. ISBN 0521782570. info
  • Ephemeral bodies : wax sculpture and the human figure. Edited by Julius von Schlosser - Roberta Panzanelli. Los Angeles, Calif.: Getty Research Institute, 2008, vii, 327. ISBN 9780892368778. info
  • PRAHL, Roman. Umění náhrobku v českých zemích let 1780-1830. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 2004, 335 s. ISBN 8020011889. info
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
colloquium
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2012.
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