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– Students will familiarize themselves with the cultural and historical context of the 16th century.
– Students will learn about the beginnings of Renaissance architecture and its spread throughout the whole Europe.
– Students will be able to identify the style of most Renaissance structures and to analyse the broader context of Renaissance architecture.
– Students will be informed of the most important architects and structures of the European Renaissance.
– Students will learn to orient in the most important architectural publications and will be able to describe their influence on the subsequent architecture.

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The Architecture of 16th century - Renaissance cycle will be presented as lectures accompanied by Powerpoint slides. Apart from the lectures, the course consists of the discussions about the assigned texts and individual works that should engage the students in the presented topics. The course includes three excursions where the students will present their papers and practically apply the acquired knowledge in the analysis of architecture, terminology, and in dating of individual structures.

The assessment will be based on the participation during the lectures, on the contribution to the discussions during the lectures, and namely on the presentation of the paper during the excursions when the active participation in art and historical interpretation of historic architecture will be assessed.

1. Introduction to the cultural history of European Renaissance
2. Architecture of Italian Quattrocento
3. Architecture of Italian Cinquecento and Spanish Renaissance
4. Architecture of Italian Mannerism
5. Sansovino, Palladio, Serlio and the theoretical publications of Italian Renaissance
6. Renaissance architecture in France
7. Renaissance architecture in England and Northern Germany
8. Renaissance architecture in Southern Germany and Austria
9. Renaissance architecture and urbanism in Bohemia
10. Renaissance architecture and urbanism in Moravia
11. Excursion – Renaissance monuments in the city of Brno
12. Excursion – Bučovice Chateau
13. Excursion – town conservation area and the chateau in Telč

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The lectures present the theoretical framework and the form of Renaissance architecture which had significantly influenced the subsequent development of architecture until the beginning of the 19th century (reflected in the forms of the 19th century “Neo-styles”). Students will familiarize themselves with the basic concepts, terminology, names, and the most important structures of the European Renaissance and Mannerism.

Students will regularly participate in most of the lectures and should actively engage in the discussions; they will take part in the obligatory excursions where they will interpret the paper on the previously assigned topic. Absences from the lectures and namely from the excursions can be excused only for serious reasons.
In the case of a student's apology and with approval of the subject guarantor, personal attendance may be substituted with online attendance in the classes.

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BURKE, Peter. Italská renesance. Kultura a společnost v Itálii. Praha: Mladá fronta, 1996. ISBN 80-204-0589-5. (CS)
KONEČNÝ, Michal (ed.). Na věčnou paměť, pro slávu a vážnost. Renesanční aristokratická sídla v Čechách a na Moravě ve správě Národního památkového ústavu. Kroměříž : Národní památkový ústav, územní památková správa v Kroměříži, Masarykova univerzita, 2017. (CS)
PREISS, Pavel. Italští umělci v Praze. Praha: Panorama, 1986. (CS)
PREISS, Pavel. Panoráma manýrismu. Kapitoly o umění a kultuře 16. století. Praha: Odeon, 1974. (CS)
ŠAMÁNKOVÁ, Eva. Architektura české renesance. Praha: SNKLHU, 1961. (CS)
TOMAN, Rolf (ed.). Umění italské renesance. Praha: Slovart, 1996. ISBN 80-85871-94-7. (CS)
VLČEK, Pavel. Dějiny architektury renesance a baroka. Praha: Česká technika - nakladatelství ČVUT, 2006. ISBN 80-01-03407-0. (CS)

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