DU3671 The Portrait in the History of the European Painting

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2002
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Lubomír Slavíček, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Lubomír Slavíček, CSc.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: prof. PhDr. Lubomír Slavíček, CSc.
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
Develompent and main problems of the portriat painting in the European art from the 14th to the 18th century.
Syllabus
  • Term of the portrait painting, theoretical background, types of the portraits. 1. Origin of the portrait painting. 2. Jan van Eyck, Portrait of Arnolfinis - problem of the iconological interpretation of the portrait painting. 3. Pierro della Francesca, Federigo da Montefeltre and his wife Battista Sforza. 4. Raffael, Poet Baldasare Castiglione. 5. Tizian, Equestrial portrait of the Emperor Charles V. - type of the equestrial portrait. 6. Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Emeror Rudolph II. as Vertumnus - type of the alegorical portrait. 7. P. P. Rubens, Artists selfportrait with Isabella Brant. 8. Rembrandt's late autoportraits - type of the painter's selfsportrait. 9. Anthonis van Dyck, English King Charles I. and his consort - problem of the double-portrait. 10. Frans Hals, Guverness of the men poorhouse in Haarlem and the Dutch Group-portrait. 11. Velazquez, Las Meninas. 12. Hyacinth Rigaud, French King Louis XIV. - type of the representative souvereign portrait. 13. Karel Škréta, Count František Antonín Berka of Dubá and his wife as Paris and Helene - type of the "portrait historié".
Literature
  • Preiminger, Rudolf - Baader, Hannah - Suthor, Nicola (ed.). Porträt. (Geschichte der klassischen Bildgattungen in Quellen Texte und Komentaren, Band 2). Berlin 1999.
  • Rase, Paul O. heslo: Bildnis. In: Reallexikon zur deutschen Kunstgeschichte 2. Stuttgart 1948, sl. 639-680.
  • Schneider, Norbert. Porträtmalerei. Hauptwerke europäischer Bildniskunst 1420-1670. Köln 1999.
  • Riegl, Alois. Das holländische Gruppenporträt. 1-2. Wien 1931.
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Přednášky se konají kontaktním způsobem, 1x za 14 dní; přepokladá se zpracování a přednesení referátů
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught only once.
The course is taught: every other week.
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