Course detail

A Survey of History of Art in Prehistory and Antiquity

FaVU-1DUPS-ZAcad. year: 2017/2018

The course is a part of a lecture series which proceeds through the whole of BA studies. Students are chronologically acquainted with main eras, styles, trends, movements, and personalities, as well as with architectural, sculptural and artistic artefacts in the world and in the historical lands of the Czech Crown from the oldest times to the present. The course starts with pre-historic cave paintings and finishes with Italian Renaissance.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Basic insight in art-history based on chronology, as well as on formal, content and technological transformations. This insight should serve students as inspirational and orientational source for their own creative work.

Prerequisites

Secondary school konwledge of art-history.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations..

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

50% attendance of lectures.

Course curriculum

1) Pre-historic times, old ancient times, essential part of middle ages.
2) Old ancient times: art in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, Aegean and Etruscan regions.
3) Beginnings of middle ages: old christian, pre-byzantine and byzantine art.
4) Pre-romanesque and romanesque art in France and the Czech lands.
5) Gothic style in France, Germany, Italy, and the Czech lands between the 1330s and the Hussite wars.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

To acquaint students with demanding and specific issues of architecture and fine arts in their development from the pre-historic times.
To provide students with stylistic, social, icongraphic, technological and conceptual aspects of art.
To familiarize students with the frequent connections between old and modern art.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Lectures are optional.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Antonín Matějček, Dějepis umění I-IV, Praha 1922-1929
Jose Pijoan, Dějiny umění I_VI, Praha 1977-1980
Dějiny českého výtvarného umění I-II, Praha 1984-1989

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme Bachelor's

    branch AGD2 , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AGD1 , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch APD , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AM2 , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AM3 , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AKG , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AS2 , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AS1 , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AM1 , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AIN , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch ATD , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch APE , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AFO , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AMU , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AEN , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AVI , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

52 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

1) Pre-historic times, old ancient times, essential part of middle ages.
2) Old ancient times: art in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, Aegean and Etruscan regions.
3) Beginnings of middle ages: old christian, pre-byzantine and byzantine art.
4) Pre-romanesque and romanesque art in France and the Czech lands.
5) Gothic style in France, Germany, Italy, and the Czech lands between the 1330s and the Hussite wars.