DU1708 The Profane Iconography

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2024
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Radka Nokkala Miltová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Radka Nokkala Miltová, Ph.D.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. Mgr. Radka Nokkala Miltová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 8:00–9:40 K31, except Tue 16. 4.
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
Introduction into the profane iconography.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course student will be able to recognize basic topics of profane iconography
Syllabus
  • The aim of the course is to make students acquainted with the profane iconography and its role in art history for the interpretations of the art works, with the basic terminology (iconography and iconology, personification, allegory, symbol, attribute, emblem), with renaissance and baroque handbooks (e.g. “Iconologia” by Cesare Ripa; “Mundus symbolicus” by Filippo Picinelli; “Immagini degli dei degli antichi” by Vincenzo Cartari; “Mythologiae sive explicationis fabularum libri decem” by Natale Conti), literature sources (e.g. Ovidius: “Methamorphoses”; Torquato Tasso: “Gerusaleme Liberata”; Battista Guarini: “Il Pastor Fide”), and with modern literature (e. g. system ICONNCLASS, studies by Aby Warburg, Erwin Panofsky, William S. Heckscher, Rudolf Wittkower, Jan Białostocki, Rudolf Chadraba, Jaromír Neumann, Lubomír Konečný).
  • At the end of this course, students should be able not only to inform about the history of profan iconography, the basic terms used in this discipline.
Literature
  • Between text and language : miscellaneous studies on the history of emblematics (Souběž.) : Mezi textem a obrazem : miscellanea z historie emblematiky. info
  • WAAL, H. van de. Iconclass : an iconographic classification system. Edited by L. D. Couprie - E. Tholen - G. Vellekoop. Amsterdam: North-Holland publishing company, 1985. S. 491-992. ISBN 0444856196.
  • REID, Jane Davidson. The Oxford guide to classical mythology in the arts, 1300-1990s. Edited by Chris Rohmann. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. xxiii ;. ISBN 0195049985.
  • Gombrich, E. H. Symbolic Images. Studies in the Art of the Renaissance II. Oxford 1978.
  • PANOFSKY, Erwin. Význam ve výtvarném umění : Meaning in the visual arts (Orig.). Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon, 1981. 372 s. : i.
  • STRATEN, Roelof van. Einführung in die Ikonographie. 2., überarbeitete Aufl. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 1997. 165 s. ISBN 3496011610.
  • WARNCKE, Carsten-Peter. Symbol, Emblem, Allegorie : die zweite Sprache der Bilder. Köln: Deubner Verlag für Kunst, Theorie & Praxis, 2005. 192 s. ISBN 3937111077.
  • STRATEN, Roelof van. Einführung in die Ikonographie. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 1989. 165 s. ISBN 3496004509.
  • Wittkower, Rudolf, Allegorie und der Wandel der Symbole in die Antike und Renaissance. Köln 1983.
  • Emblemata : Handbuch zur Sinnbildkunst des XVI. und XVII. Jahrhunderts. Edited by Arthur Henkel - Alfred Schöne. Sonderausgabe. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzlersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1978. lxxiii ;. ISBN 3476003892.
  • PIGLER, Andor. Barockthemen : eine Auswahl von Verzeichnissen zur Ikonographie des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts. 2., erw. Aufl. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1974. 556 s. ISBN 9630501341.
  • Ikonographie und Ikonologie : Theorien - Entwicklung - Probleme. Edited by Ekkerhard Kaemmerling. 5. Aufl. Köln: DuMont Buchverlag, 1991. 521 s. ISBN 3770108477.
  • SCHMITT, Otto. Reallexikon zur deutschen Kunstgeschichte. Edited by Karl-August Wirth. München: C.H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1981. 1524 sloup. ISBN 3406140076.
  • Ikonografie: témata, motivy, interpretace : kniha k poctě Jana Royta. Edited by Henryk Biegeleisen - Lubomír Konečný - Michaela Ottová - Roman Pra. Vydání první. Praha: Univerzita Karlova, nakladatelství Karolinum, 2016, 358 stran. ISBN 9788024625133. info
Teaching methods
Lectures, class discussion, home works, reading, and short presentatins or paper of a selected iconographical theme are requested.
Assessment methods
Final written test.
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 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2025.
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