DU2004 Seminar: Connoisseurship as Practice

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2022
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Lubomír Slavíček, CSc. (lecturer)
Mgr. Tomáš Valeš, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Lubomír Slavíček, CSc.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Wed 14:00–17:40 K32
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
The capacity limit for the course is 15 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 2/15, only registered: 0/15, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/15
Course objectives
The seminar is aimed on enhancing and practicing connoisseurship on practical visual material. The course will introduce also important figures of connoisseurship, some of their texts and selected questions regarding the authorship of works of art. Students improve orientation in the connoisseurship and ability to work with concrete works of art.
Learning outcomes
Student will be able to:
- apply basic expert procedures;
- understand the texts on the subject;
- critical approach to the authorship of a work of art;
Syllabus
  • - Introduction of connoisseurship and literature - Methods - Important connoisseurs, their methods and their work - The issue of formal analysis - Analysis of specific works of art in the medium of drawing, painting and sculpture - Modern technology and research of works of art - Auctions and art trade - Exercise in practice - churches in Brno, the Moravian Gallery, etc.
Literature
  • CHARNEY, Noah. Umění falzifikace : myšlení, motivy a metody padělatelských mistrů. Translated by Filip Hanzlík. Zlín: Kniha Zlin, 2015, 294 stran. ISBN 9788074733055. info
  • SMENTEK, Kristel. Mariette and the science of the connoisseur in eighteenth-century Europe. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014, xvi, 303. ISBN 9781472438027. info
  • SCHATBORN, Peter. Rembrandt and his circle : drawings in the Frits Lugt collection. Bussum: Thoth Publishers, 2010, 237 stran. ISBN 9789068685220. info
  • SCHATBORN, Peter. Rembrandt and his circle : drawings in the Frits Lugt collection. Bussum: Thoth Publishers, 2010, 446 stran. ISBN 9789068685220. info
  • Art market and connoisseurshipa closer look at paintings by Rembrandt, Rubens and their contemporaries. Edited by Anna Tummers - Koenraad Jonckheere. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2008, 192 p. ISBN 9089640320. info
  • FRIEDLÄNDER, Max J. Von Kunst und Kennerschaft. 1992. ISBN 978-3-379-01436-6. info
Teaching methods
papers, class discussion, case studies on particular artworks
Assessment methods
activity a paper and final written essay
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025.
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