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– Students will familiarize themselves with the cultural and historical context of the 17th century.
– Students will learn about the beginnings of Italian Baroque architecture and its spread throughout the whole Europe.
– Students will be able to identify the style of most Baroque structures and to analyse the broader context of Baroque architecture.
– Students will be informed of the most important architects and structures of the European Baroque.
– 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 the 17th century - Baroque 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 Baroque civilization
2. Roman architecture of Seicento (the successors of Michelangelo – Vignola, della Porta, Fontana)
3. Roman architecture of the late Baroque and Accademia di San Luca (Bernini, Borromini, Cortona)
4. Italian architecture of Seicento (Savoy, Veneto, Lucca, Naples and Sicily)
5. Baroque architecture in Spain, Belgium, Portugal and South America (Carbonel, Churriguera)
6. Classicist architecture and urban design in France (de Brosse, Mansart, Le Vau, Mansart)
7. Classicist architecture in England (Jones, Wren, Vanbrugh, Hawksmoor)
8. Baroque architecture in the Habsburg monarchy (Pomis, Tencalla, Fischer von Erlach, Hildebrandt)
9. Early Baroque architecture in Bohemia (Italian architects Filippi, Carrati, Lurago, Mathey)
10. Early Baroque architecture in Moravia (Pieroni, Carlone, Tencalla, Erna)
11. Excursion – early Baroque monuments in the city of Brno
12. Excursion – Valtice Chateau
13. Excursion – town conservation area, the chateau and the gardens in Kroměříž

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The lectures present the theoretical framework and the form of the Baroque and Classicist 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 Baroque and Classicism.

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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KROUPA, Jiří. V zrcadle stínů. Morava v době baroka 1670-1790. Brno: Moravská galerie 2002. ISBN 80-7027-121-3. (CS)
KRSEK, Ivo, KUDĚLKA, Zdeněk, STEHLÍK, Miloš, VÁLKA, Josef. Umění baroka na Moravě a ve Slezsku. Praha: Academia, 1996. ISBN 80-200-0540-4. (CS)
MACEK, Petr, BIEGL, Richard, BACHTÍK, Jakub (eds). Barokní architektura v Čechách. Praha: Nakladatelství Karolinum, 2015. ISBN 978-80-246-2736-6 (CS)
PREISS, Pavel. Italští umělci v Praze. Praha: Panorama, 1986. (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)
TOMAN, Rolf. Baroko. Architektura, plastika, malířství. Praha: Slovart, 2007. ISBN 978-80-7209-771-5 (CS)
VLČEK, Pavel. Dějiny architektury renesance a baroka. Praha: Česká technika - nakladatelství ČVUT, 2006. ISBN 80-01-03407-0. (CS)

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