Fine Arts in the History of European Civilization, part 1

Timetable

Module aim (aims)

Familiarise students with the most important issues influencing the history of early-modern European art and the main methodological concepts used to analyse it

Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)

Syllabus

1. The work of art in the Renaissance era.
2. Description and analysis of the work of art.
3. Portraiture in history of European painting .
4. Reality and vision in early-modern European painting.
5. Nude and nudity in European art.
6. Analyses of works of art.

Reading list

Obligatory

1. Jorink E.,Ramakers B., Undivided territory: 'Art' and 'science' in the early modern Netherlands, "Netherlands, Yearbook for History of Art" 61 (2011), ss. 6-32.

Optional

1. Gombrich E. H., Botticelli's Mythologies: A Study in the Neoplatonic Symbolism of His Circle, "Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes" 8 (1945), ss. 7-60.
2. Eberlein J.K., The Curtain in Raphael's Sistine Madonna, "The Art Bulletin 65(1) (1983), ss. 61-77.
3. Clark K., The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form, Princeton University Press, 1972.