FF:DU1713b From Constanine to Giotto - Course Information

DU1713b Seminář: od Konstantina po Giotta

Extent and Intensity

0/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).

Teacher(s)

prof. Ivan Foletti, MA, Docteur es Lettres, Docent in Church History (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

prof. Ivan Foletti, MA, Docteur es Lettres, Docent in Church History

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is offered to students of any study field.

Course objectives

The course takes the form of an excursion, from the 14th to 17th April. The aim of the course is to acquaint students with the artistic, ritual and historiographic tradition of the city of Ravenna.

Learning outcomes

The developpe the ability to critically look at the culture of Ravenna
To gain knowledges on all major art media of this city
To deepen rhetorical skills
To deepen skills in the creation of scientific text

Syllabus

• Invention of Ravenna in XIX. century
• Ravenna and fascism
• Ravenna as the capital of the empire
• Galla Placidia
• The Orthodox Baptistry
• Diptych of Murano
• The fifth century sarcofagi
• Ravenna and the Goths
• The Baptistry of Arian
• Sant'Apollinare Nuovo
• The Archbishop's Chapel
• Theodorich Mausoleum
• Ravenna and Constantinople
• Throne of Bishop Maximian
• San Vitale
• Sant'Apollinare nuovo

Literature

• DRESKEN-WEILAND, Jutta. Mosaics of Ravenna : image and meaning. First edition. Regensburg: Schnell + Steiner, 2016, 320 stran. ISBN 9783795432065. info
• DAVID, Massimiliano. Eternal Ravenna : from the Etruscans to the Venetians. Translated by Christine Cawthra - Jo-Ann Titmarsh. English edition. [Turnhout]: Brepols, 2013, 287 stran. ISBN 9782503549415. info
• JÄGGI, Carola. Ravenna : Kunst und Kultur einer spätantiken Residenzstadt : die Bauten und Mosaiken des 5. und 6. Jahrhunderts. 1. Aufl. Regensburg: Schnell + Steiner, 2013, 333 s. ISBN 9783795427740. info
• RIZZARDI, Clementina. Il mosaico a Ravenna : ideologia e arte. Edited by Linda Kniffitz - Letizia Sotira - Barbara Vernia. Bologna: Ante Quem, 2011, 269 s. ISBN 9788878490680. info
• DELIYANNIS, Deborah Mauskopf. Ravenna in late antiquity. 1st pub. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, xix, 444. ISBN 9780521836722. info
• Basilica of San Vitale and the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia in Ravenna. Edited by Gianfranco Malafarina, Photo by Paolo Robino. Modena: Franco Cosimo Panini, 2008, 128 s. ISBN 9788857000091. info
• Ravenna da capitale imperiale a capitale esarcale : atti del XVII Congresso internazionale di studio sull'alto medioevo : Ravenna, 6-12 giugno 2004. 1a ed. Spoleto: Fondazione Centro italiano di studi sull'alto Medioevo, 2005, s. 560-115. ISBN 8879881167. info
• Ravenna da capitale imperiale a capitale esarcale : atti del XVII Congresso internazionale di studio sull'alto medioevo : Ravenna, 6-12 giugno 2004. 1a ed. Spoleto: Fondazione Centro italiano di studi sull'alto Medioevo, 2005, xvii, 558. ISBN 8879881167. info
• AGNELLUS RAVENNAS. The book of pontiffs of the church of Ravenna. Edited by Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis. 1st ed. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2004, xi, 369. ISBN 0813213584. info
• DEICHMANN, Friedrich Wilhelm. Ravenna : Hauptstadt des spätantiken Abendlandes. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1976, 380 stran. ISBN 3515020055. info
• DEICHMANN, Friedrich Wilhelm. Ravenna : Hauptstadt des spätantiken Abendlandes. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1974, x, 626. ISBN 3515019448. info
• DEICHMANN, Friedrich Wilhelm. Frühchristliche Bauten und Mosaiken von Ravenna. Edited by Franz Xaver Bartl - Julie Boehringer. Baden-Baden: Verlag für Kunst und Wissenschaft, 1958, 7 nečísl. info

Teaching methods

oral presentation in situ; paper

Assessment methods

Feedback about the written and written presentation.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

Study Materials

Teacher's information

The course takes the form of an excursion, from the 14th to 17th April.

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