Course detail

A Survey of History of Art in Prehistory and Antiquity

FaVU-1DUPS-ZAcad. year: 2010/2011

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 in the world and in the historical lands of the Czech Crown from the oldest times to the present. The course starts with pre-historic cave paintings and finishes with Italian Renaissance.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

prof. PhDr. Jan Sedlák, CSc.

Department

Department of Art History and Theory (KTDU)

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

Secondary school konwledge of art-history.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations..

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

50% attendance of lectures.

Course curriculum

1) Pre-historic times, old ancient times, essential part of middle ages.
2) Old ancient times: art in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, Aegean and Etruscan regions.
3) Beginnings of middle ages: old christian, pre-byzantine and byzantine art.
4) Pre-romanesque and romanesque art in France and the Czech lands.
5) Gothic style in France, Germany, Italy, and the Czech lands between the 1330s and the Hussite wars.

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

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Antonín Matějček, Dějepis umění I-IV, Praha 1922-1929
Dějiny českého výtvarného umění I-II, Praha 1984-1989
Jose Pijoan, Dějiny umění I_VI, Praha 1977-1980

Type of course unit

Lecture

52 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. PhDr. Jan Sedlák, CSc.

Syllabus

VUT

Faculties

University Institutes

Parts

A Survey of History of Art in Prehistory and Antiquity

Type of course unit