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FaVU-1PDU-PSAcad. year: 2024/2025
The course content focuses on the birth of human creativity in the context of human evolution. Particular attention is paid to the development, description and interpretation of prehistoric art, focusing on specific artistic expressions in the Early Paleolithic, in the context of their discoveries and current knowledge, and attention is also paid to material technology. Against the background of the political, economic, social and cultural history of the earliest pre-Eastern and European civilizations, the course examines the most important artistic expressions, including the origins of writing, religion, mythology and socio-political contexts.
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Written test.
Aims
The aim of the subject is to obtain a basic overview of the prehistoric and ancient epochs of the history of art and the development of architecture, to appreciate their contribution, to learn about the various stages of development in the oldest history of mankind, their common features and specifics, to understand how a work of art is created, who influences its form and theme and how its functions and content may change over time.
Students will gain knowledge of ancient and classical art, and will become aware of the anthropological aspects of the origins of art, and gain a foundation for the study of other art history survey courses.
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The Paleolithic in Western Europe and the Czech lands, the birth of human creativity and the interpretation of prehistoric art
Neolithic culture in Asia Minor, in Europe and in our country, the development of settlements and dwellings, the beginnings of architecture
Architecture and art of Mesopotamia during the Sumerian, Akkadian and Babylonian periods
Art and Culture of Ancient Egypt
Minoan and Mycenaean culture in the light of archaeological findings
Architecture (basic typology) and art of ancient Greece
Sculpture and artistic craft in ancient Greece, the search for the ideal of human beauty and repeated returns in history, the first attempts to define aesthetic concepts
Hellenism and the expansion of Greek culture at the time of Alexander the Great
Pergamon Altar
The art of the Etruscans and the contribution of the Romans to the history of sculpture and painting
Roman architecture, Pompeii, Herculaneum and Johann Joachim Winckelmann
The period of "migration of peoples" and the formation of "barbarian" kingdoms at the transition between antiquity and the Middle Ages