Course: The Renaissance and Mannerism Art in the Czech Lands 1

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Course title The Renaissance and Mannerism Art in the Czech Lands 1
Course code DVU/BURM1
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Waisser Pavel, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
Topics: 1. Prague Renaissance palaces (Hradčany, Malá Strana), Bonifác Wohlmut. 2. House of Lobkowicz, Florian Gryspek of Gryspach, House of Smiřice: patronage and visual culture. 3.-4. Prague Belvedere. 5.-6. The Hvězda Summer Palace and the personality of Ferdinand of Tyrol. 7.-8. The Lords of Hradec - Patronage and Visual Culture. 9.-10. House of Pernstein - Patronage and Visual Culture. 11.-12. House of Rosenberg - Patronage and Visual Culture.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Projection (static, dynamic)
  • Semestral Work - 20 hours per semester
  • Attendace - 26 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
Lectures synthetically deal with visual Art culture of the Renaissance and Mannerism in the Czech lands in the period between the reign of Ferdinand I of Habsburg and the Battle of White Mountain (1527-1620). Besides the Prague of the royal court are comprehensively presented residences and historical monuments of Czech and Moravian noblemen (architecture, sculpture, painting, etc.). Confessional aspects of a culture noblemen elites and elites in royal towns are also reflexted. Individual lectures are devoted to cultural phenomena such as garden culture, doctrinal treatises, contemporary graphics and book culture, etc. Everything is put into the general cultural-historical context.
Deeper knowledge of the field of study.
Prerequisites
Subject is designated for students of Bachelor study of History of Fine Arts.

Assessment methods and criteria
Analysis of Creative works (Music, Pictorial,Literary), Dialog, Systematic Observation of Student

Completion of the seminar task (presentation, paper etc.), colloquial examination (knowledge of the lectured subject in all main aspects). Attendance at lectures at least 80%, attendance at seminars at least 80%.
Recommended literature
  • Bažant, J. (2006). Pražský Belvedér a severská renesance. Praha.
  • Dobalová, S. (2009). Zahrady Rudolfa II. - jejich vznik a vývoj. Praha.
  • Dvorský, J. (ed.). Dějiny českého výtvarného umění II/1. Praha 1989..
  • Fučíková, E. (ed.). Rudolf II. a Praha. Císařský dvůr a rezidenční město jako kulturní a duchovní centrum střední Evropy. Praha - London - Milano 1997..
  • Chlíbec J. (2011). Italští renesanční sochaři v českých zemích v období renesance. Praha.
  • Jakubec, O. (2003). Kulturní prostředí a mecenát olomouckých biskupů potridentské doby. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého.
  • Knoz, T. (1996). Renesance a manýrismus na zámku v Rosicích.. Rosice.
  • Krčálová, J. (1986). Renesanční stavby B. Maggiho v Čechách a na Moravě. Praha: Academia.
  • Muchka I. P. a kol. (2014). Hvězda, arcivévoda Ferdinand Tyrolský a jeho letohrádek v evropském kontextu. Praha.
  • Preiss, P., Boturová, V., Semrádová, R., Brix, M., & Hobzek, J. (1986). Italští umělci v Praze: renesance, manýrismus, baroko. Praha: Panorama.
  • Preiss, P. (1974). Panorama manýrismu: kapitoly o umění a kultuře 16. století. Praha: Odeon.
  • Říhová, V. (2011). Dílo sochařů, kameníků a štukatérů počátku 17. století: Moravskotřebovsko. Pardubice.
  • Šamánková, E. (1961). Architektura české renesance. Praha: Státní nakladatelství krásné literatury a umění.
  • Waisser, P. (ed.). (2011). Sgrafita zámku v Litomyšli. Pardubice.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): The History of Art and the Theory of Art (2019) Category: Theory and history of arts 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter