DU2057 Art and Culture of Late Antique Armenia

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2022
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
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
Introduction to the study of art in pre-modern Armenia: history and historiography, Architecture and decoration, Anikonism. The course will be taught as a block lecture in situ from 6 to 11 October 2022.
Learning outcomes
Student will be able to:
- Identify and summarize important features of the major moments of the history of Armenia;
- undestand and critically analyze historiography and concepts related to this environment;
- produce an analytical study of selected artifacts;
Syllabus
  • Introduction: the Armenians, Armenia and their art - a historiography of a region built on the past.
  • Late Antique Armenians: Aruch, Talin, Hrispime
  • The temple of Oudzun.
  • Museum in Yerevan
  • Marmashen Monastery
  • Etchmiadzin as a sacred city
  • Sanahin and Hagbat monasteries
Literature
  • Armenia : art, religion, and trade in the Middle Ages. Edited by Helen C. Evans. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of art, 2018. 351 stran. ISBN 9781588396600.
  • MATHEWS, Thomas F. Art and architecture in Byzantium and Armenia : liturgical and exegetical approaches. Aldershot: Variorum, 1995. 305 stran. ISBN 0860785378.
  • Ani :the millennial capital of Armenia. Edited by Anelka Grigorjan. Erevan: Hayastani Patmowťyan Ťangaran, 2015. 187 stran. ISBN 9789939101552.
  • FOLETTI, Ivan a Pavel RAKITIN. Re-Inventing Late Antique and Early Medieval Armenia in WW2-Soviet Union. In Re-Constructing Late Antique Armenia (2nd -8th centuries CE). Historiography, material culture, immaterial heritage. 2022.
  • MARANCI, Christina. The art of Armenia : an introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. xii, 252. ISBN 9780190269005.
  • East of Byzantium : Syria and Armenia in the formative period. Edited by Nina G. Garsoïan - Thomas F. Mathews - Robert W. Thomson. Washington: Dumbarton Oaks, Center for byzantine studies, Trustees for Harvard university, 1982. xii, 222. ISBN 088402104
  • MARANCI, Christina. Vigilant powers : three churches of early medieval Armenia. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2015. 281 stran. ISBN 9782503549002.
  • Armenia sacra : mémoire chrétienne des Arméniens (IVe-XVIIIe siècle). Edited by Jannic Durand - Ioanna Rapti - Dorota Giovannoni. Paris: Somogy, 2007. 471 s. ISBN 9782757200667.
  • FOLETTI, Ivan. The Medieval South Caucasus. Artistic Cultures of Albania, Armenia and Georgia. In Convivium. Exchanges and Interactions in the Arts of Medieval Europe, Byzantium, and the Mediterranean. Brno: Masarykovy univerzita, AV ČR, UNIL, 2016. 228
Teaching methods
Output: in situ presentation, written paper.
Assessment methods
final essay
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
The course is taught: every other week.
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