Course: European 16th-Century Sculpture

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Course title European 16th-Century Sculpture
Course code DVU/SOIP
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 3
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) Nanni di Banco, Santi Quattro Coronati (1413-1415) The beginnings of Renaissance sculpture and a new generation of artists 02) Donatello, Crucifix (1412-1413) Italian Renaissance sculpture in wood 03) Lorenzo Ghiberti, Paradise doors (1425-1452) Bronze reliefs as master jeweler works 04) Donatello, David (around 1430) New aesthetic ideal and other Donatello's works in bronze 05) Antonio Bernardo Rossellinové & Desiderio da Settignano, Tomb of Portuguese Cardinal Jacopo di Lusitania (1460-1467) Renaissance tombs and "lyrical style" around the year 1460 06) Luca della Robbia, Madonna and Child (1464-1465) Italian Renaissance sculpture of terracotta 07) Andrea del Verrocchio, Christ and Doubting Thomas (1466-1483) The sculptural groups in sculpture of 15th century and Verrocchio's work 08) Andrea del Verrocchio, Equestrian statue of Bartolomeo Colleoniho (1479-1489) Renaissance equestrian monuments 09) Bertoldo di Giovanni, Hercules (around 1490) Renaissance sculpture and painting all'antica

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture
  • Attendace - 26 hours per semester
  • Homework for Teaching - 13 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The lectures are focused on various aspects of art artists in sculpture of 15th century in Italy. The different types of works will be mutually confronted and pursued their stylish formal, iconographic and iconological quality and meanings in contemporary social and political contexts.
Detail knowledge of Italian sculpture of the 15th century.
Prerequisites
The finished first year of the bachelor degree of the History of Art.

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral exam, Didactic Test

The detailed knowledge of memorized topics documented at the colloquium.
Recommended literature
  • (1974). Slovník antické kultury. Praha.
  • Georges Dubay - Jean-Luc Daval (eds.). (1996). Sculpture. From Antiquity to the Present Day..
  • Giorgio Vasari. (1976). Životy nejvýznačnějších malířů, sochařů a architektů I, II. Praha.
  • Christopher Hibbert. (1997). Florencie. Životopis města. Praha.
  • Christopher Hibbert. (2001). Vzestup a pád rodu Medici. Praha.
  • Jan Chlíbec - Tomáš Černušák. (2008). Savonarola a Florencie. Jeho působení a estetické názory. Praha.
  • Jan Chlíbec. (2006). Italské renesanční sochařství v českých státních a soukromých sbírkách. Praha.
  • Jan Vladislav (ed.). (1964). Navštívení krásy. Italská renesanční lyrika. Praha.
  • Jane Turner (ed.). (1996). The Dictionary of Art 1-36. London.
  • John Pope-Hennessy. (1996). Italian Renaissance Sculpture. London.
  • Leon Battista Alberti. (1947). O malbě. O soše. Praha.
  • Publius Ovidius Naso. (1974). Proměny.. Praha.


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