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
- Students will effectively apply the acquired knowledge in other subjects within the study program.
- By understanding important selected chapters from history early modern art, they will gain insight into the cultural landscape of Europe as a whole.
- Familiarity with available literature and other sources will enable them to conduct independent research and successfully complete their academic requirements.
- The knowledge acquired will provide students with a foundation to develop into cultured and intelligent individuals who appreciate and respect art and, by extension, human endeavors in general.
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, Chicago 1995.
Tina Košak, Izbrana poglavja iz umetnosti zgodnjega novega veka: skripta, Maribor 2024.
Dodatna literatura
Ivan Stopar, Gradovi na Slovenskem, Ljubljana 1989.
Iz zgodovine slovenskih gradov (ur. Miha Preinfalk), Ljubljana 2012 = Kronika, Časopis za zgodovino in narodopisje, 60/3, 2012.
Studia Valvasoriana: zbornik spremnih študij ob prvem integralnem prevodu Die Ehre Deß Hertzogthums Crain v slovenski jezik (ur. Janez Weiss), Ljubljana 2014.
poglavja o zgodnjenovoveški umetnosti v: Art History in Slovenia (ur. Barbara Murovec, Tina
Košak), Ljubljana 2011.
Tina Košak, Slikarske zbirke grofov Herberstein. Zbirka Erazma Friderika grofa Herbersteina v gradu Hrastovec in v Gradcu, Acta historiae artis Slovenica, 19/1, 2014, str. 53–91.
Academia Operosorum: zbornik prispevkov s kolokvija ob 300-letnici ustanovitve (ur. Kajetan Gantar), Ljubljana 1994.
Barok v Sloveniji. Slikarstvo in kiparstvo, Narodna galerija, Ljubljana 2025.
Auftraggeber als Träger der Landesidentität. Kunst in der Steiermark vom Mittelalter bis 1918 (ur. Franz Hobelleitner, Edgar Lein), Graz 2016
Podrobnejša navodila za študijsko literaturo dobijo študentje od predavatelja. / Detailed instructions regarding study literature will be given by the lecturer.
Prerequisits
No prerequisites.
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