Course: Introduction to the Historiography of Art

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Course title Introduction to the Historiography of Art
Course code DVU/UHDT2
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Jakubec Ondřej, prof. Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
01/ Introduction to historiography of art history 02/Art historiography in antiquity (Vitruvius, Plinius Sr., Pausaniás) 03/ Reflections on art in the Middle Ages 04/ Renaissance debate on art I - 15. c. 05/ Renaissance debate on art II - 16. c. 06/ Historiography of art history in the 17th and the 18th centuies 07/ Enlightment 08/ Beginnings of art history as autonomous discipline 09/ Empirism and connoisseurship in the 19th century 10/ Vienese school of art history 11/ Czech historiography of at history - an outline I 12/ Czech historiography of at history - an outline II

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture
  • Homework for Teaching - 13 hours per semester
  • Attendace - 26 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
A series of lectures introducing students to the literature of art and theories of art from antiquity to the beginning of the 20th century.

Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral exam

Recommended literature
  • Cennino Cennini. (1946). Kniha o umění středověku.. Praha.
  • Erwin Panofsky. (1981). Význam ve výtvarném umění.. Praha.
  • Giorgio Vasari. (1976). Životy nejvýznačnějších malířů, sochařů a architektů I, II.. Praha.
  • Hanno-Walter Kruft. (1993). Dejiny teorie architektúry. Od antiky po súčasnosť. Pallas, Bratislava .
  • Kroupa Jiří. (2007). Školy dějin umění. Metodologie dějin umění I.. Brno.
  • Leon Battista Alberti. (1956). Deset knih o stavitelství.. Praha.
  • Leon Battista Alberti. (1947). O malbě. O soše. . Praha.
  • Lionardo da Vinci. (1941). Úvahy o malířství. . Praha.
  • Pausaniás. (1973). Cesta po Řecku I, II. . Praha.
  • Petr Wittlich. (2008). Literatura k dějinám umění. Vývojový přehled. . Praha.
  • Plinius Starší. (1974). Kapitoly o přírodě. Praha.
  • Süger. (2006). Spisy o Saint-Denis. . Praha.
  • Vitruvius. (1953). Deset knih o architektuře. . Praha.


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 (2017) Category: Theory and history of arts 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer