DU2721 Baroque Clositer as Artistic Center

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2013
Extent and Intensity
0/2. 4 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: k (colloquium). Other types of completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Pavel Suchánek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Pavel Suchánek, Ph.D.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 12:30–14:05 K31
Prerequisites
The lecture focused on the issue of the cultural environment of Central European monasteries in the 17th and 18 century
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/25
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
At the end of this course the student will be able to understand and explain meaning of works of art in their historical context
Syllabus
  • Catholic Reformation and the arts - religious orders and its visual strategy - visual culture - forms and function of works of art in monasteries (painting, sculpture, architecture) - specific iconology and iconography - monasteries and artists, work organization, monastic workshop, the process of creation of works of art, question of the involvement of orders - relationship between secular and spiritual power - baroque "historicisms" - prelates as patrons, art collectors and the customer
Literature
  • HRADIL, Filip and Jiří KROUPA. Šternberk. Klášter řeholních lateránských kanovníků (Dějiny-umění-kultura) (Šternberk. Monastery of the Lateran Canons Regular (History-art-culture)). První vyd. Šternberk: Římskokatolická farnost Šternberk, 2009, 177 pp. Dějiny-umění-kultura. ISBN 978-80-254-6036-8. info
  • SUCHÁNEK, Pavel. K větší cti a slávě : umění a mecenát opatů kláštera Hradisko v 18. století. První vydání. Brno: Barrister & Principal, 2007, 374 stran. ISBN 9788087029114. info
  • LEVY, Evonne Anita. Propaganda and the Jesuit Baroque. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004, 353 s. ISBN 0520233573. info
  • BAILEY, Gauvin A. Between Renaissance and Baroque : Jesuit art in Rome, 1565-1610. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003, xi, 406. ISBN 0802037216. info
  • FÜRST, Ulrich. Die lebendige und sichtbahre Histori : programmatische Themen in der Sakralarchitektur des Barock (Fischer von Erlach, Hildebrandt, Santini). 1. Aufl. Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner, 2002, 446 s. ISBN 3795415047. info
  • KAUFMANN, Thomas DaCosta. Höfe, Klöster und Städte : Kunst und Kultur in Mitteleuropa, 1450-1800. Translated by Jürgen Blasius - Christian Rochov. Köln: DuMont, 1998, 591 s. ISBN 3770139240. info
  • KROUPA, Jiří. Premonstrátský klášter Louka - chrám Šalamounův ? (The Premonstratensian Monastery of Louka: The Temple of Solomon ?). In Kroupa, Jiří / Kroupa, Petr / Slavíček, Lubomír: Premontstrátský klášter v Louce. Dějiny-umělecká výzdoba-ikonologie. Znojmo: Okresní úřad Znojmo, 1997, p. 62-83. ISBN 80-902383-0-0. info
  • VILÍMKOVÁ, Milada and Pavel PREISS. Ve znamení břevna a růží : historický, kulturní a umělecký odkaz benediktinského opatství v Břevnově. Vyd. 1. Praha: Vyšehrad, 1989, 336 s. ISBN 8070210133. URL info
Teaching methods
class discussion, group projects, reading
Assessment methods
paper, presentation, final project
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
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