Course: Italian Painting in 1550-1750

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Course title Italian Painting in 1550-1750
Course code DVU/B2B10
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 2
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 5
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)
  • Zapletalová Jana, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Artistic centres in the Apennine Peninsula in the early modern period: painters - works - patrons. 2. Venice 1550-1618: the late Titian, Veronese, Bassano, Tintoretto and followers. 3. Florence from Cosimo I to Francesco I: Mannerists, Agnolo Bronzino, Giorgio Vasari, Giovanni Balducci called Cosci, Santi di Tito, Alessandro Allori, Studiolo in Palazzo Ducale, Uffizi. 4. The Council of Trent and the new requirements for painters. The new typology of painting in the Counter-Reformation period. Gabriele Paleotti and artists in Bologna before the "reform" of the Carracci. 5. Bologna 1575-1609: the Carracci "reform". Annibale, Ludovico and Agostino Carracci before 1600. Federico Barocci. 6. Rome 1592-1606: Caravaggio. Caravaggisti in Rome: Bartolomeo Manfredi, Orazio Gentileschi, Honthorst, Carlo Saraceni. 7. Rome 1600-1630: Annibale Carracci, Palazzo Farnese, Guido Reni, Albani, Domenichino, Lanfranco, Guercino, Rubens. 8. Florence from Ferdinand I to Cosimo II: Cappella dei Principi at San Lorenzo, Gregorio Pagani, Cristofano Allori, Il Cigoli, Jacopo da Empoli, Justus Sustermans, Jacques Callot, "Giocosi". Palazzo Pitti, painted decoration. Florence from Ferdinand II to Cosimo III. 9. Naples 1606-1656: Caravaggio, Caracciolo, Ribera and his followers, Massimo Stanzione, Artemisia Gentileschi, Bernardo Cavallino. 10. Venice 1618-1650: the "New Venetians": Domenico Fetti, Johann Liss, Carlo Saraceni, Bernardo Strozzi, Pietro Della Vecchia, Sebastiano Mazzoni. 11. Venice 1660-1710: Tenebrists, Giuseppe Heintz, Luca Giordano, Chiarists; Venice between the 17th and 18th century: Sebastiano Ricci, Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini, Antonio Balestra, Pittoni, Giambattista Tiepolo 12. Bologna and the art of quadratura (Gerolamo Curti, Angelo Michele Colonna, Agostino Mitelli, Domenico Maria Canuti, Enrico Haffner). 13. Murals in domes in the 17th and 18th centuries: the Neo-Correggio wave and important realisations in Italy

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Learning outcomes
The lectures introduce students to the transformations of Italian painting in its main centres from the mid-16th to the mid-18th century, especially in Rome, Bologna, Florence, Venice, Naples, Milan, Genoa and Turin. The distinctiveness of the local schools, the importance of the urban centres of painting and their relationships are traced in the exchange of impulses, in the influence of leading artistic figures, in the context of contemporary cultural developments and in the structure of domestic patronage, collecting and commissions, together with traces of the activities of foreign artists in Bohemia and Moravia. The individual cycles can be specifically focused by means of case studies according to current trends and the latest findings.
Acquisition of a deeper knowledge of Baroque painting in Italy in its main artistic centres from the mid-16th century to the mid-18th century.
Prerequisites
Interest in the specific topics; basic orientation in general European history

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
An exam to check the knowledge of lecture topics and of compulsory specialised literature. Attending at least 80% of classes.
Recommended literature


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): Science of Arts (2024) Category: Theory and history of arts 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): The History of Art and the Theory of Art (2023) Category: Theory and history of arts 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Science of Arts (2019) Category: Theory and history of arts 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Art History and Heritage Conservation (2023) Category: Theory and history of arts 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter