Course: Historiography of the Art History

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Course title Historiography of the Art History
Course code DVU/HDTO1
Organizational form of instruction Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Pavlíček Martin, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
01-03 / Giorgio Vasari, Le vite de'piu eccelenti Pittore e scultori architettori. Firenze 1550-1568. The first history of artists and art 04 / Benvenuto Cellini, La vita di Benvenuto Cellini Scritto da lui medesimo. Firenze 1558-1562. Artist's life between reality and fiction 05 / Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola, Regola delli cinque Ordina dell'Architettura, 1562. The Council of Trent, and new concepts of art and architecture 06-08 / Andrea Palladio, I Quattro libri dell'Architettura. Venezia 1570. Real and complete rebirth of antiquity 09 / Joachim von Sandrart, Teutsche Academie. Nürnberg 1675. Reflections on the theory and history of Italian art in the Baroque for the Alps 10 / Giovanni Pietro Bellori, Vite de´ pittori, scultori ed architetti moderni. Roma 1672. Accademia di S. Luca and Theory Baroque Classicism in Rome 11 / Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Entwurff einer historischen Architectur. Wien 1721. The first history of architecture 12 / Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Geschichte der Kunst der Altertums. Dresden 1764. Beginnings of modern art history as a discipline

Learning activities and teaching methods
Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming)
  • Homework for Teaching - 13 hours per semester
  • Attendace - 26 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
Lectures follow the development of literature about art and art theory from the mid-16th the mid-18th century century.
Deepened knowledge of the historiography of the history of art 16.-18. centuries.
Prerequisites
The finished the bachelor degree of the History of Art.

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral exam

Detailed knowledge of art´s literature and art theory 16th to 18th century documented the oral test.
Recommended literature
  • Cellini, B. (1960). Vlastní životopis.. Praha.
  • Giorgio Vasari. (1976). Životy nejvýznačnějších malířů, sochařů a architektů I, II.. Praha.
  • Hanno-Walter Kruft. (1993). Dejiny teórie architektúry.. Bratislava.
  • Chastel, A. Vyplenění Říma. Od manýrismu k protireformaci. Brno 2003..
  • Palladio, A. (1958). Čtyři knihy o architektuře.. Praha.
  • Petr Wittlich. (2008). Literatura k dějinám umění. Vývojový přehled. . Praha.
  • Preiss, P. (1974). Panoráma manýrismu.. Praha.
  • Vladislav, J. (1964). Michelangelo Buonarroti: Podoba živé tváře.. Praha.
  • Winckelmann, J. J. Dějiny umění starověku. Praha 1986..


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