DU1716 Seminar: Early Modern Art from Masaccio to Canova II

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2024
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
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, except Tue 16. 4.
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: 7/15, only registered: 1/15, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/15
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to present the basic characteristic of visual culture of the early modern period (15th/16th-18th centuries) with special regard to architecture. Another aspect of the course focuses on model of interpretaion of the visual art of this period.
Learning outcomes
- understand early modern period as an era with specific visual language, esp. regarding to architecture; - aquire knowledge of modes of art-historical interpretation; - learn basic historical and arthistorical facts related to this period
Syllabus
  • 1. Early modern period - definition of the term and relation between Italy and Transalpine Europe
  • 2. Architecture of the 15th century in Europe: Late Gothic tradition and Italian Avantgarde
  • 3. The Florence experiments
  • 4. Palace as a new task of architecture
  • 5. Renaissance church buildings
  • 6. Renaissance villa and gardens
  • 7. Patrons and architecture
  • 8. An architect: social status and invention
  • 9. Architectural theory
  • 10. Hybrid Renaissance architecture
Literature
  • BURKE, Peter. Hybrid Renaissance : culture, language, architecture. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2016, xii, 271. ISBN 9789633860878. info
  • A companion to Renaissance and Baroque art. Edited by Babette Bohn - James M. Saslow. Chichester, U.K.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013, xvi, 630 p. ISBN 9781118391501. info
  • KAVALER, Ethan Matt. Renaissance Gothic : architecture and the arts in Northern Europe, 1470-1540. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012, xi, 332. ISBN 9780300167924. info
  • Rethinking the High Renaissance : the culture of the visual arts in early sixteenth-century Rome. Edited by Jill Burke. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012, xvi, 386. ISBN 9781409425588. info
  • Velké dějiny zemí Koruny české. Edited by Klára Benešovská. Vyd. 1. Praha: Paseka, 2009, 806 s. ISBN 9788086890210. info
  • Renaissance theory. Edited by James Elkins - Robert Williams. New York: Routledge, 2008, x, 550 p. ISBN 0203929861. info
  • FROMMEL, Christoph Luitpold. The architecture of the Italian Renaissance. Translated by Peter Spring. London: Thames & Hudson, 2007, 224 s. ISBN 9780500342206. info
  • BLAŽÍČKOVÁ-HOROVÁ, Naděžda. Dějiny českého výtvarného umění. Edited by Taťána Petrasová - Helena Lorenzová. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 2001, 407 s. ISBN 8020006303. info
  • Dějiny českého výtvarného umění 1780/1890, 3/I - II. 1st ed. Praha: Academia, 2001, s.470, 407. info
  • HEYDENREICH, Ludwig H. Architecture in Italy, 1400-1500. Edited by Paul Davies. 1st publ. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, 186 s. ISBN 0300064675. info
  • LOTZ, Wolfgang. Architecture in Italy, 1500-1600. Edited by Deborah Howard. 1st publ. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995, viii, 205. ISBN 0300064691. info
  • KAUFMANN, Thomas DaCosta. Court, cloister, and city : the art and culture of Central Europe, 1450-1800. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995, 576 s. ISBN 0226427307. info
  • Italian renaissance architecture : from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo. Edited by Henry A. Millon. London: Thames and Hudson, 1994, 454 s. ISBN 0500279217. info
  • FUČÍKOVÁ, Eliška. Dějiny českého výtvarného umění II. : Od počátku renesance do závěru baroka. 1. vyd. Praha: Academia, 1989. info
Teaching methods
lectures, discussion, analysis of texts
Assessment methods
presentation of a paper, final colloquium
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2025.
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