JAN EVANGELISTA PURKYNĚ UNIVERSITY IN ÚSTÍ NAD LABEM
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Course: History of Art II

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Course title History of Art II
Course code KDT/FU002
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 1
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)
  • Pavlíček Tomáš, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
  • Stolárová Lenka, Mgr.
Course content
1. Western European art tradition and Byzantium - canon and dialogue. 2. Early Christian and Jewish art. 3. Early Middle Ages. Insular Art - Anglo-Saxon art, Irish and Nordic art. 4. Carolingian and Ottonian Renaissance. Architecture, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, arts and crafts. 5. The beginnings of Romanesque art in Europe. Architecture, painting, sculpture. 6. Transformations of Romanesque art due to the regional art tradition. 7. Romanesque art in Bohemia - Romanesque sculpture, Czech Romanesque painting, sculpture of the Premyslid era. 8. Onset of a new era - Gothic art. Architecture, wall and book painting, sculpture. 9. High French Gothic and its dissemination. Book and wall painting of the 13th and first half of the 14th century. 10. Painting of the 14th century. 11. Phenomenon of international Gothic and its manifestations. Artistic innovations in 15th-century Europe. 12. Iconographic and iconological interpretation of an artwork. 13. Professional excursion.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
The course focuses on Romanesque and Gothic art, and is based on an art-historical domain embedded in a cultural-historical framework. Its aim is to provide an overview of the visual art development in a broader context, especially European cultural history with emphasis on Central Europe and the Lands of the Bohemian Crown. Special emphasis is put on an interdisciplinary approach. Students obtain a basic grasp of art history as well as history. The study in both thematic areas is designed so that their specialization complements and blends together as much as possible: the intention is to offer the most complete picture as possible of the visual art genesis in the context of the European society cultural history. Special emphasis is placed on getting familiarized with basic concepts and professional terminology, and on developmental directions of visual art and art techniques.
The gained capabilities constitute an encompassment and an aquirement of knowledge and experience in the given field of study, they result from a concrete annotation of the subject and are aimed at a profile´s fulfilment of the graduate of the given field of study.
Prerequisites
Successful completion of the previous study

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Colloquium, Active participation
Recommended literature
  • DĘBICKI, Jacek; FAVRE, Jean-François; GRÜNEWALD, Dietrich; PIMENTEL. Antonio Filipe. Dějiny umění: malířství, sochařství, architektura. Argo, Praha, 1998.
  • FILLITZ, Hermann a kol. Das Mittealter I.. Berlin, 1969.
  • CHADRABA, Rudolf; KRÁSA, Josef Krása (eds.). Dějiny českého výtvarného umění. Od počátku do konce středověku, I/1-2. Academia, Praha, 1984.
  • Jan ROYT. Slovník biblické ikonografie. Praha, 2006.
  • JANSON, Horst Woldemar; DAVIES, Penelope J. E.; FOX HOFRICHTER, Frima, JACOBS, Joseph F.; SIMON, David L.; ROBERTS. Ann S. Janson's History of Art: The Western Tradition Reissued Edition (8th Edition). Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, 2011.
  • PANOVSKY, Erwin. Suger, opat ze St.-Denis, Význam ve výtvarném umění. Praha, 1981.
  • POESCHKE, Joachim. Die Skulptur des Mittelalters in Italien. München, 2000.
  • ROYT, Jan. Středověké malířství v Čechách. Praha, 2002.
  • SUCKALE, Robert; WENIGER, Matthias; WUNDRAM, Manfred; WALTHER, Ingo F. Gotika. Slovart, Praha, 2007.


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JAN EVANGELISTA PURKYNĚ UNIVERSITY IN ÚSTÍ NAD LABEM, date of update: 01.12.2025 23:50. Data created for academic year 2025/2026