Course detail

Art History in the Baroque Age - a Survey

FaVU-1DUB-LAcad. year: 2022/2023

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

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

Knowledge based on the course History of Art I.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching has a form of lectures accompanied with presentation of visual material.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Examination based on written test.

Course curriculum

Baroque art in the Czech lands - from the Battle of White Mountain to the 1750s.
Leading personalities of the Czech Baroque style: the Dientzenhofers, Santini, Braun, Brokof, Škréta, Brandl and Reiner.

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

Basic literature

Baroko. Architektura, sochařství, malířství. Praha: Slovart 2007.
Dějiny českého výtvarného umění II 1, Od počátku renesance do závěru baroka, Academia: Praha 1989.
Dějiny českého výtvarného umění II/1-2, Praha 1989
I. Krsek, Zd. Kudělka, M. Stehlík, J. Válka: Umění baroka na Moravě, Praha 1999.
Jose Pijoan, Dějiny umění 6-8, Praha 1980-1981
Oldřich Blažíček: Umění baroku v Čechách, Praha 1971. Dějiny českého výtvarného umění II 1, Od počátku renesance do závěru baroka, Academia: Praha 1989. I. Krsek, Zd. Kudělka, M. Stehlík, J. Válka: Umění baroka na Moravě, Praha 1999. Das flämische Stillleben 1550-1689. Darkness & Light: Caravaggio and his World. (Edmund Capon, John T.Spike). Art Gallery of New South Wales 2004. Vit Vlnas (ed.): Sláva barokní Čechie. Umění, kultura a společnost 17. a 18. století, Praha 2001. Rolf Toman: Umění italské renesance: architektura, sochařství, malířství, kresba. Praha: Slovart 2000. Michael Kitson: Barok a rokoko. Praha 1972. Encyklopedie umění renesance a baroku. Praha : Odeon 1970. Baroko. Architektura, sochařství, malířství. Praha: Slovart 2007. Oldřich Blažíček: Umění baroku v Čechách, Praha 1971. Dějiny českého výtvarného umění II 1, Od počátku renesance do závěru baroka, Academia: Praha 1989. I. Krsek, Zd. Kudělka, M. Stehlík, J. Válka: Umění baroka na Moravě, Praha 1999. Das flämische Stillleben 1550-1689. Darkness & Light: Caravaggio and his World. (Edmund Capon, John T.Spike). Art Gallery of New South Wales 2004. Vit Vlnas (ed.): Sláva barokní Čechie. Umění, kultura a společnost 17. a 18. století, Praha 2001. Rolf Toman: Umění italské renesance: architektura, sochařství, malířství, kresba. Praha: Slovart 2000. Michael Kitson: Barok a rokoko. Praha 1972. Encyklopedie umění renesance a baroku. Praha : Odeon 1970. Baroko. Architektura, sochařství, malířství. Praha: Slovart 2007.

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme VUB Bachelor's

    branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch VU-D , 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch VU-D , 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch VU-D , 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

52 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

Baroque art in the Czech lands - from the Battle of White Mountain to the 1750s.
Leading personalities of the Czech Baroque style: the Dientzenhofers, Santini, Braun, Brokof, Škréta, Brandl and Reiner.