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Lecturer(s)
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Čehovský Petr, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. Architecture during the Reign of Wenceslaus IV 2. Sculpture of the beautiful style 3. Painting of the beautiful style 4. Architecture between 1420-1471 5. Sculpture between 1420-1471 6. Painting between 1420-1471 7. Architecture of the Jagiellonian period 8. Sculpture of the Jagiellonian period 9. Wall painting of the Jagiellonian period 10. Early Renaissance art and architecture in Tovačov 11. Early Renaissance art and architecture in Moravská Třebová 12. Bishop Stanislav Thurzo - builder and patron of the arts
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture, Observation, Listening
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Learning outcomes
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The course will familiarize students with the main periods of development of late Gothic and early Renaissance architecture and art in the Czech lands. The introductory lectures will focus on the visual arts during the reign of Wenceslas IV, when Prague was one of the most important artistic centers in Central Europe. Attention will be paid to the phenomenon of beautiful style in Attention will be paid to the phenomenon of the beautiful style in architecture, sculpture, and painting around 1400. The following lectures will focus on Czech visual culture in the period between the outbreak of the Hussite Wars and the accession of Vladislav Jagellonský to the Czech throne, and on the art of Vladislav Gothic in the Czech lands. The final lectures will analyze the phenomenon of early Renaissance art in the Czech lands.
Students acquire a very good knowledge of the development of art and architecture in Bohemia and Moravia in the years ca. 1380-1530.
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Prerequisites
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Subject is designated for students of Art History.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Written exam
Very good knowledge of topics duscussed in the lectures and of basic literature.
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Recommended literature
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Andrzej Niedzielenko - Vít Vlnas (eds.). Silesia: A pearl in the Bohemian crown: three periods of flourishing artistic relations. Praha. 2006.
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Barbara Drake Boehm (ed.). Prague. The crown of Bohemia 1347 - 1437. New York. 2005.
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Ivo Hlobil - Eduard Petrů. Humanism and the Early Renaissance in Moravia. Olomouc. 1999.
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Ivo Hlobil (ed.). The last flowers of the middle ages. From the gothic to renaissance in Moravia and Silesia. Olomouc. 2000.
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Taťána Petrasová - Rostislav Švácha (eds.). Art in the Czech Lands 800 - 2000. Prague. 2017.
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