Course: Netherlandish Painting 1400-1620

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Course title Netherlandish Painting 1400-1620
Course code DVU/NIMAL
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Master
Year of study 1
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
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)
  • Kindl Miroslav, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1 lesson 2x45 minutes 1. Introductory lesson Introduction of the lectures, a brief introduction to the Netherlandish history, the definition of the territory, basic terms 2. Netherlandish primitives I. briefly about older Netherlandish art, historical introduction (Devotio moderna), Robert Campin, Jan and Hubert van Eyck 3. Netherlandish primitives II. Rogier van der Weyden, Petrus Christus, Dieric Bouts, Hugo van der Goes, Hans Memling, Geertgen tot Sint Jans, Gerard David 4. Humanism and Renaissance in the Netherlands I. historical introduction Netherlands and Italy, the urban centers, landscape painting, Erasmus of Rotterdam, Hieronymus Bosch, Antwerp school: Jan Gossaert, Quentin Massys, Jan Mostaert, Joachim Patinir, Joos van Cleve, Jan van Scorel, Lucas van Leyden 5. Humanism and Renaissance in the Netherlands II. historical introduction (reformation, The Council of Trent), landscape painting, Netherlandish Romanists: Jan van Scorel, Marten van Heemskerck, Michiel Coxcie, Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Frans Floris, Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen, Cornelis Engebrechstz, Pieter Aertsen 6. Pieter Bruegel the Elder the Brueghel family, Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Mayken Verhulst, landscape painting, painting of moralities and proverbs 7. Revolution and Iconoclasm (after 1566) historical introduction, Frans Floris, Maerten de Vos, Adam van Noort, Bartholomeus Spranger, Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem 8. Since the fall of Antwerp to Pax Hispanica (15851609) historical introduction, Maerten de Vos, Hendrik de Clerck, Francken brothers, Abraham Bloemaert 9. Young Pieter Pauwel Rubens (15771608) Adam van Noort, Otto van Veen, intelectual circles in Antwerps, Italian experience 10. Pieter Pauwel Rubens (16081640) 11. Flanders Since Pax Hispanica to the Peace of Westphalia (16091648) historical introduction (archduke's couple Albert and Isabella), Jacob Jordaens, young Anthonis van Dyck (15991621) 12. Anthonis van Dyck (16211641)

Learning activities and teaching methods
Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook), Projection (static, dynamic)
Learning outcomes
NETHERLANDISH PAINTING 1400-1648 (FROM VAN EYCK TO VAN DYCK) Course objectives The lecture will cover a period of more than two centuries, in which at relatively small western European territory rich merchant cities with significant artistic centres were constituted and flourished. In addition to purely art-historical aspects of the Netherlandish painting the lecture will also incorporate aspects of cultural history. Wealth, that arised from trade with almost an entire then known world, provided the cities like Antwerp, Bruges, Ghent, Brussels and later Amsterdam, Haarlem and Leyden background for specific development, not only political, but also artistic. The conflicts, that occured here in the second half of the 16th century did not remain the rest of Europe without response and without any exaggeration, affected its further development. On the artistic field, in many corners of Europe the Netherlandish painters and sculptors were active and whether directly or indirectly shaped the face of late Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque art of local as well as more cosmopolitan schools. During the lectures, we will look under the brushes of painters called Flemish Primitives, Robert Campin (Master of Flémalle), Jan and Hubert van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Petrus Christus, Dieric Bouts, Hugo van der Goes, Hans Memling, Geertgen tot Sint Jans or Gerard David. We will connect their arts with specific aspects of Duchy of Burgundy and later Habsburg Netherlands in the 15th and on the beggining of the 16th century. Following by artists, active mostly in the 16th century, Quentin Massys, Joachim Patinir, Joos van Cleve, Jan Gossaert, Jan Mostaert, Lucas van Leyden, Jan van Scorel, Pieter Brueghel and younger Hendrik Goltzius, Cornelis van Haarlem and others. With focus mostly on Netherlandish connotations the artists active on the court of the emperor Rudolf II. will be presented (Bartholomeus Spranger, Dirck de Quade van Ravensteyn, Joris Hoefnagel, Pieter Stevens, Aegidius Sadeler and Roelant Savery. The adequate space will be devoted to Netherlandish Bourgeois revolution, that in the 2nd half of the 16th century divided the land to Spanish, southern part and northern, Republic of the seven united provincies. The land was also divided denominattionaly. It caused slightly diffent artistic development and especially on the north, the genre specialization of the painters. The revolution was accompanied by concomitant phenomena, directly affecting fine arts, like iconoclasm and fast, significant changes of artistic taste. The lectures will finish while opening the Baroque period, when the leading artistic personalities in the Netherlands became Pieter Pauwel Rubens and very soon Anhonis van Dyck.
basic knowledge of the Netherlandish painting of the 15th till 17th century. Understanding the specifics of development and their impact on the visual arts.
Prerequisites
orientation in the theory of painting as well as Romanesque, Gothic and Rennaisance painting

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral exam, Seminar Work

regular participation on lectures successful completion of colloquium
Recommended literature
  • Anja K. Ševčík. (2012). Dutch Paintings of the 17th and 18t Centuries. Praha.
  • Bartilla Stefan. (2009). Flámské a holandské malířství od 16. do raného 18. století: průvodce sbírkou Alšovy jihočeské galerie v Hluboké nad Vltavou. Hluboká nad Vltavou.
  • Hans Vlieghe. (1998). Flemish Art and Architecture 1585?1700,. New Haven.
  • Jarmila Vacková. (2005). , van Eyck. Praha.
  • Jarmila Vacková. (1989). Nizozemské malířství 15.? 16. století: československé sbírky. Praha.
  • Lubomír Slavíček. (2000). Flemish Paintings of the 17th and 18th Centuries. Praha.
  • Lubor Machytka ? Gabriela Elbelová (ed.). (2000). Olomoucká obrazárna II., Nizozemské malířství 16.?18. století z olomouckých sbírek. Olomouc.
  • Seymour Slive. (1995). Dutch Painting 1600?1800. New Haven.


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
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): The History of Art and the Theory of Art (2019) Category: Theory and history of arts - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): The History of Art and the Theory of Art (2019) Category: Theory and history of arts - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): The History of Art and the Theory of Art (2020) Category: Theory and history of arts - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): The History of Art and the Theory of Art with the Specialization in Heritage Conservation (2022) Category: Theory and history of arts - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): The History of Art and the Theory of Art (2017) 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 (2022) Category: Theory and history of arts - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): The History of Art and the Theory of Art (2019) Category: Theory and history of arts 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter