DU0107 Periods of Art History II

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2020
Extent and Intensity
2/1. 7 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. Ivan Foletti, MA, Docteur es Lettres, Docent in Church History (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. Ivan Foletti, MA, Docteur es Lettres, Docent in Church History
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
each odd Friday 8:00–11:40 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 lecture is designed as a comprehensive introduction to the medieval artistic culture. Based on the traditional periodization, will focus on European art from III. to XV. century AD. The course will be embedded in a chronological approach, but the themes around which it develops, are broader in nature, ranging from traditional iconographic and stylistic study of social issues through art history, to the analysis of anthropological and sociological nature. Emphasis will be on asset among other medieval works of art versatility in an attempt to break the cliches about the superiority of sculpture and painting. (Special attention will be given the most valuable example of medieval engineering, goldsmith, but also a carving of ivory or wood carvings). We will focus also on the interaction of different techniques in medieval vekých projects. The aim of this lecture is to familiarize students with the first insight into the medieval creation and ask fundamental questions about the methodology field. Ride is pochopnení complexity vizálního medieval world.
Syllabus
  • - Introduction: methodological questions and art of catacombs. - Early Christian art after 312: pagan traditions and the Christian world (Rome, Ravenna, Naples, Jerusalem, Constantinople, ...). - From the portrait to the icon: figurative work from VI to VIII century. - Classic, anti-classical and "perennial Hellenism": figurative work from VI to VIII century. - Looking East: Byzantium but also Islam. - Time of Charlemagne: intellectuals creations? (IX.-X. century) - Ottonian art, west and east. (X.-XI. century) - "Rebirth" of monumental sculpture, 1050-1150. - Painting the High Middle Ages (1050-1200). - France, Germany and the "Gothic": History and Myth (1144-1270). - Nicola and Giovanni Pisano: two generations and two worlds. - Giotto and his school. - During the reign of Father of the Nation: the art of XIV. century in Bohemia. - Gentile da Fabriano, "International Gothic" and the end of the Middle Ages ....
Literature
    required literature
  • BELTING, Hans. Das Bild und sein Publikum im Mittelalter :Form und Funktion früher Bildtafeln der Passion. Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 1981. 316 s. ISBN 3786113076.
  • BELTING, Hans. Bild und Kult :eine Geschichte des Bildes vor dem Zeitalter der Kunst. 2., unveränderte Aufl. München: C.H.Beck, 1991. 700 s. ISBN 3-406-34367-8.
  • ROYT, Jan. Středověké malířství v Čechách. Praha: Karolinum, 2002. 163 s. ISBN 80-246-0265-2.
    recommended literature
  • ean-Pierre Caillet [et al.], L'art du Moyen-Age : Occident, Byzance, Islam, Paris 1995.
  • Richard Krautheimer, “Introduction to an ‘Iconography of medieval architecture’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 5 (1942), pp. 1-33
Teaching methods
Interactive lecture, theoretical preparation, output: oral test of the general sorrow of the Middle Ages.
Assessment methods
Oral test of the general sorrow of the Middle Ages.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
General note: Předmět je povinný spolu s dalšími souvisejícími a navazujícími kurzy propedeutického roku: DU0106 Epochy dějin umění I DU0108 Epochy dějin umění III DU0109 Epochy dějin umění IV.
Information about innovation of course.
This course has been innovated under the project "Faculty of Arts as Centre of Excellence in Education: Complex Innovation of Study Programmes and Fields at FF MU with Regard to the Requirements of the Knowledge Economy“ – Reg. No. CZ.1.07/2.2.00/28.0228, which is cofinanced by the European Social Fond and the national budget of the Czech Republic.

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The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.
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