Course detail
History of the Fine Arts
FAST-AG026Acad. year: 2024/2025
Rough survey of the history of arts from the pre-historic age to the late 20th century. The subject is to explain the common ideological background of the arts disciplines and the architecture, their mutual influence and completion.
Language of instruction
Czech
Number of ECTS credits
2
Mode of study
Not applicable.
Guarantor
Department
Ústav architektury (ARC)
Entry knowledge
The subject applies the knowledge acquired in the subjects aimed at the history of architecture, the composition of architecture and aesthetics, and own experience of the arts disciplines gained in the fine arts subjects.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.
Aims
Knowledge of the history of the Fine Arts, the pre-historic arts, Egypt and Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome, the Romanesque arts, the Gothic arts, the Renaissance, the Baroque in the foreign countries, the Baroque in the Czech lands, the 19th-century arts, the Modern Arts, the contemporary tendencies.
Student will manage the goal of the subject, i.e. knowledge of the history of the Fine Arts, the pre-historic arts, Egypt and Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome, the Romanesque arts, the Gothic arts, the Renaissance, the Baroque in the foreign countries, the Baroque in the Czech lands, the 19th-century arts, the Modern Arts, the contemporary tendencies.
Student will manage the goal of the subject, i.e. knowledge of the history of the Fine Arts, the pre-historic arts, Egypt and Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome, the Romanesque arts, the Gothic arts, the Renaissance, the Baroque in the foreign countries, the Baroque in the Czech lands, the 19th-century arts, the Modern Arts, the contemporary tendencies.
Study aids
Not applicable.
Prerequisites and corequisites
Not applicable.
Basic literature
Not applicable.
Recommended reading
Not applicable.
Type of course unit
Lecture
26 hod., optionally
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
1. Pre-historic arts, Egypt, Mesopotamia
2. Arts of the Ancient Greece and Rome
3. Romanesque arts in the Western Europe and the Czech lands
4. Gothic arts of France, Germany and Italy
5. Gothic arts of the Czech lands
6. Renaissance in Italy, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raffael
7. Renaissance north of the Alps, Prague in the time of King Rudolf
8. Baroque in Italy and the Western Europe
9. Baroque in Bohemia and Moravia
10. 19th-century European arts, new trends in the late 19th -century French arts
11. Modern arts at the beginning of 20th century
12. Czech modern arts until the middle of 20th century
13. Tendencies of the world´s arts after 1945