DU1334 Subject Seminar: Architecture (Form and Function)

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2019
Extent and Intensity
0/2. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. Mgr. Ondřej Jakubec, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. Mgr. Ondřej Jakubec, Ph.D.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: prof. Mgr. Ondřej Jakubec, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 10:00–11:40 K31
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
Course objectives
The goal of the course is to deal with some fundamental studie of art historians and historians of architecture (Wittkower,Panofsky, Baxandall etc.) to demonstrate various methods of interpretation of historical architecture.
Syllabus
  • The course will cover various topics and texts inculding: So.called Czech Renaissance and problematics of "nationalism" in art history Michale Baxandall, Patterns of Intentions Erwin Panofsky, Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism Excursion Methods of interpretation of Renaiisance Architecture - Richard A. Goldthwaithe, The Building of Renaissance Florence. An Economic and Social History, Baltimore 1980. - Rudolf Wittkower, Architectural principles in the Age of Humanism, London 1949 - John Onians, Bearers of Meaning. The Classical Orders in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance, Princeton 1988 - Charles Burroughs, The Italian Renaissance Palace facade. Structures of Authority, Surface of Sense, Cambridge 2002 - David Thomson, Renaissance Architecture. Critics – Patrons – Luxury, Manchester– New York 1993. - Mario Carpo, Architecture in the Age of Printing. Orality, Writing, Typography, and Printed Images in the History of Architectural Theory, Cambridge (MA) – London 2001. Problem of historism in architecture - so-called Nachgotik a functional typology of church architecture Michale Schmidt, Reverentia et magnificentia. Historizität in der Architektur Süddeutschlands, Österreichs un d Böhmens vom 14. bis 17. Jahrhunderts, Regensburg 1999 Viktor Kotrba etc. Othe specific approaches: iconology; functionalist art history, ego-art history etc.
Literature
  • Court, cloister & city : the art and culture of central Europe, 1450-1800 (Orig.) : Höfe, Klöster und Städte : Kunst und Kultur in Mitteleuropa, 1450-1800. info
  • KROUPA, Jiří. Umělci, objednavatelé a styl : studie z dějin umění. Vyd. 1. Brno: Filozofická fakulta Masarykovy univerzity - Seminář dějin umění, 2006, 399 s. ISBN 8073640368. info
  • VESELÝ, Dalibor. Sloup, váza, obelisk. Edited by Tomáš Vlček, Translated by Bronislava Erikssonová. Vyd. 1. Jinočany: H & H, 2005, 185 s. ISBN 8070352841. info
  • SUGER. Skutky opata Sugera. Bernard z Clairvaux opatu Sugerovi ; Nač je v chrámu zlato? Edited by Erwin Panofsky - Bernard - Guillaume de Saint-Denis, Translated by P. Vyd. 1., (Studie E. Panofsk. Praha: Triáda, 2003, 178 s. ISBN 8086138348. info
  • ZATLOUKAL, Pavel. Příběhy z dlouhého století :architektura let 1750-1918 na Moravě a ve Slezsku. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Muzeum umění Olomouc, 2002, 702 s. ISBN 80-85227-49-5. info
  • BURKE, Peter. Eyewitnessing : the uses of images as historical evidence. 1st pub. London: Reaktion, 2001, 223 s. ISBN 1861890923. info
  • GOMBRICH, E. H. The uses of images : studies in the social function of art and visual communication. 1st pbk. ed. London: Phaidon, 2000, 304 s. ISBN 0714839698. info
  • KNOZ, Tomáš. Renesance a manýrismus na zámku v Rosicích. (Renesance a manýrismus na zámku Rosicích.). 1st ed. Rosice: Správa zámku, 1996, 158 pp. info
  • BAXANDALL, Michael. Patterns of intention : on the historical explanation of pictures. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985, xii, 147. ISBN 0300037635. info
  • PANOFSKY, Erwin. Význam ve výtvarném umění. Edited by Lubomír Konečný. Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon, 1981, 372 s. info
  • PANOFSKY, Erwin. Gothic architecture and scholasticism. New York: Meridian Books, 1957, xvi, 108. info
Teaching methods
Lectures, papers, discussion
Assessment methods
Oral exam (colloqium).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2002, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2008, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009, Spring 2011, Autumn 2011, Spring 2013, Autumn 2015, Spring 2017, Spring 2021, Spring 2023.
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