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Terminated in academic year 2022/2023

History of Art

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 226-0221/01
Abbreviation DU
Course title History of Art
Credits 2
Coordinating department Department of Architecture
Course coordinator doc. Mgr. Marek Sibinský, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. The art of ancient civilizations - ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia
2. Cretan - Mycenaean art , the basic principles of Greek art and aesthetics.
3. Greek Archaic , Classical and Hellenistic art
4. Basic principles of Roman art and aesthetics.
5. Christianity and art - disputes over the display . Early Christian and Byzantine art.
6. Romanesque art
7. Gothic art
8. Renaissance art theory, Florentine protorenesance , display space in the Renaissance.
9. The High Renaissance (Michelangelo , Leonardo) , Transalpine Renaissance ( Eyckové Bros. )
10.Italian Baroque radical - painting ( Caravaggio ) , sculpture ( Bernini ), architecture ( Borromini )
11.Baroque outside Italy - French Classicism , Baroque painting in Spain and the Netherlands
12.Fine art of the early 19th century - neoclassicism and romanticism
13. Fine art of the 19th century - realism , impressionism and postimpresionismus
14.Basic principles of visual art in the 20th century

Literature

GOMBRICH, E. Story of Art. Phaidon Press, 1995.

Advised literature

PIJOAN, E. History of Art. 1933.