Objectives and competences
- Introduce students with different milieus and contexts of early modern artistic production
Get the students acquainted with various approaches and methods of researching early modern art, also interdisciplinary.
-Get student further acquainted with the contexts and aspects of selected early modern artworks.
- introduce students with artistic connections, and the relations between main artistic centres and local production
-Based on selected examples introduce the basic characteristics of early modern patronage and collecting
-present most significant local patrons
-deepening and further contextualise students’ knowledge on art between 16th to 18th century, previously acquired in courses History of Painting, History of architecture, History of sculpture and History of applied art.
Content (Syllabus outline)
The era of early new age (beginning of 1492 or beginning of 16th century and end of French revolution 1798) covers artistic styles of renaissance, mannerism, baroque and rococo. The course gives an overview of the role of various cultural historical aspects and phenomena (patronage, taste, art market, collecting, inter/intrafamiliar relations, networking) in art production of the early modern times. It emphasises these aspects within different artistic milieus (such as town, court, monastery, parish, diocese, caste, city palaces of aristocracy etc). It focuses on the role of European courts, especially Habsburg courts, aristocratic families, academies and monastic connections in introducing new artistic trends, disseminating of artistic ideas and artworks and mobility of artists. It introduces the basic features and cases of early modern patronage and collecting.
Learning and teaching methods
- lectures with ppt projection;
- seminar practice and discussion;
- field visits, excursion;
- mentor work;
independent presentations of students’ seminar works.
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
- student recognizes and explains the most significant milieus and contexts of early modern artistic production
- student identifies, is able to locate and interpret selected most significant artworks of the given period
- student knows the basic art historical and interdisciplinary approaches in researching early modern art
- student accounts the most significant literature on early modern European and local art
- student understands and can explain the relations local artistic production and the artistic centres.
- Student can list the most significant patons and cases of individual and collective commissions of the time and
- can differentiate between various functions of commissions (public representative, propaganda vs. private intimate)
- can describe the basic types of early modern collecting and can identify the most significant European collections.
Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes
- obtained knowledge and criticism will be useful for the student in other subjects from the studyp rogramme;
- developed capability of identifying research questions in the field of arts of early new age will also be used in other professional fields;
- by knowing methodological approaches he or she will develop capability for a later work in institutions for research and protection of cultural heritage.
Readings
- Janez Vajkard Valvasor Slovencem in Evropi (ur. Lojze Gostiša), Narodna galerija, Ljubljana 1989.
- Theatrum vitae et mortis humanae. Prizorišče človeškega življenja in smrti (Razprave in Katalog), Narodni muzej, Ljubljana 2002.
- Thomas Da Costa Kaufmann, Court, cloister & city. The art and culture of Central Europe. 1450-1800
- Barock (ur. Hellmut Lorenz), München-London-New York 1999 (Geschichte der bildenden Kunst in Österreich, 4).
- poglavja o zgodnjenovoveški umetnosti v: Art History in Slovenia (ur. Barbara Murovec, Tina Košak), Ljubljana 2011.
Dodatna literatura:
- Ivan Stopar in Igor Sapač, Grajske stavbe v Sloveniji, Ljubljana 1990-2014.
- Charles Dempsey: Annibale Carracci and the Beginnings of Baroque Style. Second Edition with New Introduction and Select Bibliography, Fiesole 2000 (Villa I Tatti. The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, 16)
- Ann Sutherland Harris: Seventeenth-Century Art & Architecture, London 2005.
- Frederick Hartt: History of Italian Renaissance Art. Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, London 1970 in ponatisi.
Podrobnejša navodila za študijsko literaturo dobijo študenti na predavanjih
Prerequisits
No prerequisites.
Additional information on implementation and assessment - seminar work and presentation
- oral exam
(Positive grade of seminar work is obligatory for access to oral exam.)
