DU2306 Visual Arts of the Early Modern Period in Bohemia and Moravia

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025

The course is not taught in Spring 2025

Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. Mgr. Ondřej Jakubec, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Radka Nokkala Miltová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. Mgr. Ondřej Jakubec, Ph.D.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The lecture is focused on the introduction of visual arts of the Early Modern period in Bohemia and Moravia; Rather than aiming at chronological art history survey of Early Modern era in Bohemia and Moravia, we are oriented to present wider scale of cultural historical topics; The attention will be laid on the commissioners´ background, stylistic aspects of art, historical and regional specifics of the Renaissance and Baroque art in Central Europe, the iconography of Baroque art etc.; At the end of the course student will be able to understand the visual language of the monuments that form the crucial part of cultural heritage of Bohemia and Moravia.
Learning outcomes
The students aquire the basic outline of art history in the 16th - 18th century in Centra-Europe with special regard to Bohemia and Moravia, covering all artistzic media (es. architecture, painting and sculpture). They will get up knowledge of historical circumstances, character of art patronage, artistic genres, forms and functions. Esp. non-European students will be able to understand special character of European visual culture in pre-modern times.
Syllabus
  • Historical Survey; Decline of Gothic - Dawn of Renaissance; Olomouc Bishops as Patrons of Art I (Renaissance); Olomouc Bishops as Patrons of Art II (Baroque); Renaissance Castles in Moravia; Gothic versus Renaissance in the 16th century; Italian masons and builders and Baroque architecture in Bohemia; Moravian Architecture in Baroque Era; Art at Court of Rudolph II.; Art in the time of Thirty Years´ War; Aristocratic Residences of Baroque Era; Iconography of Art in the Time of Recatholisation: Monasteries, New Saints and Cults, Pietas Austriaca; Baroque Painting in Bohemia and Moravia; Baroque Sculpture in Bohemia and Moravia
Literature
    recommended literature
  • DOBALOVÁ, Sylva. Mannerist and Baroque art in Bohemia : guide to the permanent exhibition of the Collection of old masters of the National gallery in Praque at the Convent of St George. Edited by Vít Vlnas. Prague: National Gallery, 2005, 149 s. ISBN 8070352868. info
  • The glory of the baroque in Bohemia : essays on art, culture and society in the 17th and 18th centuries. Edited by Vít Vlnas. In Prague: National Gallery, 2001, 355 s. ISBN 8070352655. info
  • BIAŁOSTOCKI, Jan. The art of the Renaissance in Eastern Europe : Hungary, Bohemia, Poland. Oxford: Phaidon, 1976, xxiv, 312. ISBN 0714817007. info
    not specified
  • 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
Teaching methods
Lectures
Assessment methods
Essay
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course is taught only once.
The course is taught: every week.
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