Course: Some Aspects of Renaissance Art 1

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Course title Some Aspects of Renaissance Art 1
Course code DVU/VARW1
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 2
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
1. Technology excurs: plaster techniques 2. Florence, culture and politics, creating of the new style 3. Rome, papacy, the beginning of mannerism 4. Europe of the 16th century, reformation and counter-reformation, humanism 5. Local centres of mannerism, international mannerism 6. Migration of artists and craftmen 7. Czech lands in the 16th century, political and religious conditions 8. Art centres and periferies in Czech lands in the 16th century 9. Renaissance wall painting in Bohemia and Moravia 10. Renaissance sgraffito in Bohemia and Moaravia

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, Projection (static, dynamic)
  • Homework for Teaching - 10 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
Seminar concerns the culture-historical aspects and arts in 15th and 16th century Europe. Accent was put on the 16th century. The single lectures outline points and locations (Florence, Rome, Venice, Buda, Nurenberg, Fontainebleau etc.) which are important for the renaissance art in European context and which determinated conditions for the development of the renaissance art in Czech lands with the special interest in the problematics of plaster techniques.
Deeper knowledge of the topic.
Prerequisites
The finished bachelor degree of the History of Art.

Assessment methods and criteria
Student performance

Powerpoint presentation of the topic focused on during the semestr
Recommended literature
  • Burckhardt, J. Kultura renaissanční doby v Itálii. Praha 1912..
  • Dvorský, J. (ed.). Dějiny českého výtvarného umění II/1. Praha 1989..
  • Dvořáková, V. - Machálková, H. Malovaná průčelí české pozdní gotiky a renesance. Zprávy památkové péče 14, 1954, s. 33-73..
  • Fučíková, E. (ed.). Rudolf II. a Praha. Císařský dvůr a rezidenční město jako kulturní a duchovní centrum střední Evropy. Praha - London - Milano 1997..
  • Peter Burke. (1996). Italská renesance. Kultura a společnost v Itálii.. Praha.
  • Petr, F. Malířské techniky. Fresko, sgrafito, malba klihová, kaseinová, temperová, nátěry zdí, polychromie, zlacení, stucco lustro a imitace mramorů. Praha 1926..
  • Preiss, P. Panoráma manýrismu. Kapitoly o umění a kultuře, Praha 1974..
  • Šamánková, E. Architektura české renesance, Praha 1961..


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 (2015) Category: Theory and history of arts 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter