Course detail

The Survey of History of Art in Rennaissance

FaVU-1DUR-ZAcad. year: 2023/2024

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 on the territory of historical lands of the Czech Crown and in the world. The lectures for the 2nd year start with Renaissance art in Western Europe and finish with Czech Baroque art.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Guarantor

Mgr. Markéta Žáčková, Ph.D.

Department

Department of Art History and Theory (KTDU)

Entry knowledge

Knowledge based on the course History of Art I.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

50% attendance of lectures.
Lectures are optional.

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.
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.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Antonín Matějček, Dějepis umění IV-V, Praha 1929-1932
Jose Pijoan, Dějiny umění 6-8, Praha 1980-1981
Dějiny českého výtvarného umění II/1-2, Praha 1989

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

52 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Mgr. Markéta Žáčková, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1)Renaissance painting in Western Europe
2)Renaissance architecture and art in the Czech lands and Rudolphine mannerism
3)Baroque architecture, sculpture and painting in Italy: Borromini and Guarini, Bernini etc.
4)Baroque painting in France, Spain and Holland
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