Course detail
Baroque Art History Overview
FaVU-1PDU-BAcad. year: 2023/2024
The lectures will provide a brief overview of the development of Baroque fine art (especially painting and sculpture) and its individual stylistic currents from its birth in Italy (Rome, Bologna), its regional modalities and stylistic levels in Europe (France, Spain) and also in Bohemia and Moravia approx. in the period from the beginning of the 17th century to the Josephine reforms. It will provide an overview of the basic concepts, characteristics, periodization and especially the historical, social and spiritual sources of Baroque culture, taking into account the main foci of culture and art as well as the leading protagonists.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Entry knowledge
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
The following conditions are set for the award of the examination:
- active participation in class (50% participation)
- successful completion of a cross-sectional test or oral examination.
Classes are held in the classrooms of the KTDU FaVU BUT in the hours determined by the timetable. Attendance is compulsory (3 permitted unexcused absences). Higher number of absences can be compensated by submitting an alternative assignment after agreement with the lecturer.
Aims
The teaching of the course pursues the following objectives: to enable students to orient themselves in the basic political, social, ideological and artistic issues of the Baroque period. With this knowledge, the student will then be able to take his or her own, up-to-date attitude towards the material monuments of the period and understand their original context.
After successfully completing the course, the student is able to: demonstrate in-depth knowledge of the subject adequate to the university and artistic type of study; demonstrate orientation in the subject of study in wider cultural and historical contexts; Orient themselves in basic concepts, problem areas, study resources and také their own opinion on them.
Study aids
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Blažíček O. J., Sochařství baroku v Čechách, Praha 1958
Blažíček O. J., Umění baroku v Čechách, Praha 1971
Dějiny českého výtvarného umění II, Praha 1989 (všechny statě o umění 17. a 18. století)
Horyna, Mojmír, Santini: Jan Blažej Santini-Aichel, Praha: Univerzita Karlova 1998
Kol. aut., Sláva barokní Čechie I., II., Praha 2001
Macek, P. – Biegel, R. – Bachtík, J. (eds.), Barokní architektura v Čechách, Praha 2015
Toman, Rolf, Baroko: architektura, plastika, malířství, Praha: Slovart 1999
Vlček, Pavel, Dějiny architektury renesance a baroka, Praha: Česká technika – nakladatelství ČVUT 2006
Recommended reading
Ladislav Daniel (ed.), Benátčané: Malířství 17. a 18. století z českých a moravských sbírek,
Vlnas, Vít, Sláva barokní Čechie, Praha: Národní galerie 2000, katalog stejnojmenné výstavy
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme VUM_B Bachelor's 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
- Programme VUB Bachelor's
branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
Type of course unit
Lecture
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
1. Baroque – origin of the term, baroque, its understanding and changes, baroque as a transcultural phenomenon, baroque versus classicist principle in art, their manifestations in the art of the 17th and 18th centuries
2. The emergence of the Baroque and its ideological assumptions and social background: the Council of Trent and the religious situation in Europe, the Reformation, the confessional structure of society (Protestantism versus Catholicism). Artistic assumptions
3. Baroque Rome, art and its patrons, main enterprises - architecture (G.L. Bernini, Fr. Borromini), manifestations of the Baroque in the landscape and in public spaces, sculptural tasks, Baroque gardens, etc.
4. Painting in Italy (Radical current - Caravaggio, classicist current - Bologna Academy and Caraccio, Nicolas Poussin)
5. Manifestations of the Baroque in France, Spain and England
6. Baroque and Northern Europe – the Flemish and Dutch mode of baroque, especially on the example of the work of P. P. Rubens and Rembrandt
7. Development of genre differentiation and an excursion into the history and iconography of still life, its regional versions
8. The main issues of Baroque art in the Czech lands, historiography, its periodization and specifics from the White Mountain period to the Josephine reforms
9. Categories of baroque art, functioning of the baroque workshop, education and social status of the artist, relationship between artist and client (contract models, bozzeta), art market in the 17th century
10. Baroque architecture, sculpture and painting, leading figures of the Czech Baroque (architects Kryštof and Kilián Ignác Dientzenhofer and Jan Santini Eichl, sculptors Matyáš Bernard Braun and Ferdinand Maxmilián Brokof, painters Karel Škréta, Petr Brandl, Franz Anton Maulbertsch, Václav Vavřinec Reiner, etc. )
11. Baroque in Moravia and Silesia – specifics, main centers (Brno, Olomouc) and most important personalities
12. Rococo, its theoretical and artistic sources, main foci (France, Bavaria), its manifestations in architecture, sculpture, painting and in artistic craft.