Symbolism and Function of Artworks in their original place - KDKU296

• Title: Symbolism and Function of Artworks in their original place
• Guaranteed by: Institute of Christian Art History (26-UDKU)
• Faculty: Catholic Theological Faculty
• Actual: from 2015 to 2015
• Semester: both
• E-Credits: 6
• Hours per week, examination: 0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: winter:unknown / unlimited (unknown); summer:unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: you can enroll for the course repeatedly; course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan; you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
• Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Martin Zlatohlávek, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): doc. PhDr. Martin Zlatohlávek, Ph.D.

Annotation

The course "Walk through the Bohemian artistic center. From 15th till 18th century" will be held in English by the Ph.D. students of the History of the Christian Art of the Catholic Theological Faculty Charles University in Prague. The main focus of this seminar is to get to know and understand the Art in the Lands of the Bohemian Kingdom in the field of architecture and painting, focusing on Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque. This course will be taught via interactive excursions for a better understanding of the works of art in their original place. The excursions will take palace at least once a month.

Last update: Zlatohlávek Martin, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (28.01.2022)

Literature

Literature

Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann: Court, Cloister and City. The Art and Culture of Central Europe 1450–1800. Chicago 1995

Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann: The School of Prague, London 1988

Jiřina Hořejší/ Jarmila Krčálová: Die Kunst der Renaissance und des Manierismus in Böhmen, Praha 1979

Eliška Fučíková (ed.): Rudolf II. and Prague: The court and the city, London 1997

Oldřich Blažíček: Baroque Art in Bohemia, 1968 

Jaromír Neumann: Das böhmische Barock. Prague 1970

Vít Vlnas: The glory of the baroque in Bohemia. Art, culture and society in the 17th and 18th centuries. Prague 2011

Vít Vlnas/Andrea Rousová/Tomáš Hladík: Baroque in Bohemia. Guide to the permanent exhibitions of the National Gallery in Prague, Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague and Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic [Schwarzenberg Palace]. Prague 2013

Lenka Stolárová, Vít Vlnas (eds.): Karel Škréta 1610-1674. His work and his era. Prague 2010

Alena Volrábová, Wenceslaus Hollar (1607–1677): Drawings. A Catalogue Raisonné, Národní galerie v Praze, Prague, 2017.

Last update: Zlatohlávek Martin, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (22.09.2021)