Course detail
History of Art up to 18th Century
FSI-YU3 Acad. year: 2024/2025 Winter semester
Supervisor
Department
Learning outcomes of the course unit
Prerequisites
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
Language of instruction
Czech
Aims
Graduates will be able to know the history and theory of fine arts, arts and crafts and design in antiquity, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo. The subject will expand and deepen the horizons and orientation of students in the history of art from the beginning to the 18th century.
The student acquires:
- The output of the subject is an orientation in the history of fine art from the 18th century with a focus on Europe.
- Knowledge of fundaments of individual movements.
- Knowledge of characterization of individual movements.
- Knowledge of significant representatives of individual movements.
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
The study programmes with the given course
Programme B-PDS-P: Industrial Design, Bachelor's
branch ---: no specialisation, 3 credits, compulsory
Programme C-AKR-P: , Lifelong learning
branch CZS: , 3 credits, elective
Type of course unit
Lecture
39 hours, optionally
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
- Introduction – the fields of fine arts and their characteristics, applied art, Arts and Crafts, periodization, characterization of style, basic concepts (realistic, naturalistic, expressive, abstraction, composition, idealization, linear, geometric, organic,...).
- Prehistoric art (paleolithic, neolithic, megalithic structures, functions, sculpture, painting, crafts).
- Egypt, Mesopotamia, Crete, Mycenae.
- Ancient Greece, the art of the Etrusks, the Romans
- Art of the Early Christian, Byzantine, Early Middle Ages (pre-Carolinian, Carolinian).
- Romanesque art (architecture, sculpture, painting, artisanal crafts in European countries and in our country).
- Gothic (architecture, sculpture, painting, crafts in European countries and in our country).
- Early Renaissance – architecture, sculpture, painting and artistic crafts of the Renaissance period in Italy, other European countries, the Renaissance in Bohemia and Moravia.
- High Renaissance – Architecture, Sculpture, Painting and – Renaissance Art Crafts in Italy.
- Mannerism – architecture, sculpture, painting and artistic crafts of the Renaissance period in Italy.
- Baroque 1 – architecture and sculpture in the spirit of radical Baroque and Baroque Classicism.
- Baroque 2 – painting and arts crafts in the spirit of radical Baroque and Baroque Classicism.
- Baroque realism in painting, Rococo – painting and arts.