Cultural Heritage in Prague 1 - KDKU350
Title: Cultural Heritage in Prague 1
Guaranteed by: Institute of Christian Art History (26-UDKU)
Faculty: Catholic Theological Faculty
Actual: from 2024
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 6
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, C [HT]
Capacity: unknown / 7 (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: English, Czech
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
Guarantor: PhDr. Markéta Jarošová, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): PhDr. Markéta Jarošová, Ph.D.
Incompatibility : KDKU364
Is incompatible with: KDKU364
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Annotation
The “Cultural Heritage in Prague” seminar focuses on significant sites and monuments. Together we will visit the famous districts (Hradčany, Lesser Quarter, Old Town, and Josefov) and discover the beauty of architecture from the Romanesque and Gothic periods, Renaissance and Baroque styles, and Historicism, Secession, and Cubism. Through specific tasks, students will learn how to describe and classify architectural elements into specific periods and will learn how to understand the principles of decorative systems. Students will work in small teams to prepare answers to specific questions about the wider historical context of heritage and conservation. Through worksheets and accompanying materials, they will learn to describe and classify monuments based on formal elements. Lessons will take place in the city, in gardens, in front of facades or inside churches and other cultural monuments. The seminar is intended for art history students from the daily study program of the KTF, as well as Erasmus+ students from all disciplines and different study programs of the CU. Suppose you are interested in cultural heritage and would like to learn more about Prague's urban and architectural ensembles of outstanding quality. If so, you are most welcome to attend this seminar.
Last update: Jarošová Markéta, PhDr., Ph.D. (15.08.2024)
Literature

Required literature available in the National Library: 

  • Klára Benešovská (ed.): The story of Prague Castle. Prague: Prague Castle Administration, 2003
  • Petr Chotěbor: Prague Castle: detailed guide. Prague: Prague Castle Administration, 2005
  • Barbara Drake Boehm / Jiří Fajt (eds.): Prague: The Crown of Bohemia, 1347–1437. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art/New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005
  • Jiří Kuthan / Jan Royt: The Cathedral of St. Vitus at Prague Castle. Prague: Karolinum Press, 2017
  • Anežka Merhautová-Livorová: St. George’s Basilica at Prague Castle. Praha: Odeon, 1972
  • Ivan Borkovský: The Prague Castle. Praha: STN, 1961
  • Jiří Fajt / Jan Royt (eds.): Magister Theodoricus, court painter of the emperor Charles IV. [sic]: decorations of the sacred spaces at castle Karlštejn: Convent of St. Agnes of Bohemia 12 November 1997 - 26 April 1998. Prague: National Gallery, 1997
  • Zoë Opačić (ed.): Prague and Bohemia: medieval art, architecture, and cultural exchange in Central Europe. Leeds: Maney Publishing, 2009
  • Jaromír Neumann: The Picture Gallery of Prague Castle: a collection of selected works. Praha: Academia, 1967
  • Eliška Fučíková (ed.): Rudolf II. and Prague: The court and the city, London 1997
  • Petr Chotěbor: Prague Castle. Prague: Olympia: Baset, 1999              
  • Eliška Fučíková / Petr Chotěbor / Zdeněk Lukeš: Prague Castle Gallery: a guide to the collections. Prague: Prague Castle Administration,1998Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann: Court, Cloister, and City. The Art and Culture of Central Europe 1450–1800. Chicago 1995
  • Jan Žáček (ed.): Gardens near Prague Castle. Praha: Havlíček Brain Team, 2008
  • Vít Vlnas: The glory of the Baroque in Bohemia. Art, culture, and society in the 17th and 18th centuries. Prague 2011
  • Petr Wittlich: Art-Nouveau Prague: forms of the style. Prague: Karolinum, 2007
  • Petr Wittlich: Czech secession: art and architecture 1890–1914. Prague: Charles University, Karolinum Press, 2022
  • Petr Wittlich: Sculpture of the Czech Art Nouveau. Prague: Karolinum, 2001
  • Lucie Vlčková (ed.): Czech cubism: a guide to the permanent exhibition of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague. Prague: Museum of Decorative Arts, 2015

  • Klára Benešovská (ed.): Architecture of the Romanesque. Prague: Prague Castle Administration: DaDa,  2001
  • Klára Benešovská (ed.): Architecture of the gothic. Prague: Prague Castle Administration: DaDa, 2001
  • Ivan Prokop Muchka (ed.): Architecture of the renaissance. Prague: Prague Castle Administration: DaDa, 2001 
  • Jiří T. Kotalík (ed.): Architecture of the Baroque. Prague: Prague Castle Administration: DaDa, 2001
  • Pavel Zatloukal (ed.): Architecture of the 19th century. Prague: Prague Castle Administration: DaDa, 2001
  • Zdeněk Lukeš (ed.): Architecture of the 20th century. Prague: Prague Castle Administration: DaDa, 2001

Recommended literature available in the National Library: 

  • Berglund Bruce R.: Castle and cathedral in modern Prague: longing for the sacred in a skeptical age.  Budapest/New York: Central European University Press, 2017
  • Die Prager Burg & Plečnik = Prague Castle & Plečnik. Salzburg: Müry Salzmann, 2016
  • Příběh Pražského hradu = The Story of Prague Castle: tisíc let dějin Pražského hradu v jedné unikátní expozici: Starý královský palác. Praha: Správa Pražského hradu, 2016
  • Herbert Slavík:  Prague Castle: the seat of the president of the Czech Republic; accompanying texts: Jaroslav Sojka, Filip Wittlich: Správa Pražského hradu, 2015
  • Luděk Sládek (ed.): Prague Castle: in and out without hassle. Praha: Kam po Česku, 2015
  • Jedounek, Aleš (ed.): Beautiful places of the Prague Castle. Prague Castle Administration: Stratex iPublishing Factory, 2014
  • Libor Sváček / Viktor Kuvík: Pražský hrad = Prague Castle = Prager Burg = Pražskij grad. Český Krumlov: MCU, 2014
  • Karel Kuča (ed.): Castles, country houses: and other monuments in the care of the National Heritage Institute. Praha: National Heritage Institute, Central Office, 2009
  • Jan Žáček (ed.): Gardens near Prague Castle. Praha: Havlíček Brain Team, 2008
  • František Kadlec: Pražský hrad = Prague Castle. Praha 2007
  • Klára Halmanová (ed.): Pražský hrad ve fotografii 1939-1989 = Prague Castle in photographs 1939-1989. Praha: Správa Pražského hradu: KANT, 2007
  • Luděk Sládek: Prague Castle: dynasty by dynasty. Praha: BB/art, 2005
  • Věra Vávrová / Pavel Janeček (eds.): Gardens and parks: Prague Castle. Praha: Správa Pražského hradu, 2002
  • Eliška Fučíková / Petr Chotěbor / Zdeněk Lukeš: Walls: Prague Castle. Prague: Prague Castle Administration, 2002     
  • Eliška Fučíková / Petr Chotěbor / Zdeněk Lukeš: Windows: Prague Castle. Prague: Prague Castle Administration, 2002
  • František Kadlec / Věra Malá:  The state rooms: Prague Castle. Prague: Office of the President, 2001
  • Johana Kofroňová (ed.): Opus italicum: Italian Renaissance and Baroque architects in Prague: 24.11.2000-4.3.2001, the Prague Castle Picture Gallery. Prague: Prague Castle Administration, 2000
  • Tomáš Durdík: Selected medieval castles of central Bohemia: Prague Castle, Žebrák, Točník, Křivoklát, Karlštejn. Praha: Společnost přátel starožitností, 2000
  • Marie Kostílková: The windows of St Vitus’s Cathedral. Prague: Prague Castle Administration, 2000
  • Petr Chotěbor: Prague Castle. Prague: Olympia: Baset, 1999              
  • Dudák, Vladislav: Prague Castle; Hradčany. Prague: Baset: Administration of Prague Castle, 1998
  • Eliška Fučíková / Petr Chotěbor / Zdeněk Lukeš: Prague Castle Gallery: a guide to the collections. Prague: Prague Castle Administration,1998
  • Charles, Prince of Schwarzenberg (ed.): The castle of Prague and its treasures. London: Flint River Press,1994
  • Petr Chotěbor: Prague Castle: Detailed guide. Praha: Prague Publishing House of Jiří Poláček: BKT Alice Brindlerová, 1994
  • Karel Neubert / Jan Royt / Jiří Fajt: St. Vitus’ Cathedral and Prague Castle. Praha: Grafoprint-Neubert, 1994
  • Jana Kybalová: European: from the collections of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, Troja Castle 1992-1993. Prague: MDA Prague Gallery,  1992
  • Jan Royt / Jiří Fajt: Prague Castle, Hradčany. Praha: Orbis pictus, 1992
  • Petr Chotěbor / Jiří Svoboda: Prague Castle. Prague: Olympia, 1991 
  • Emanuel Poche: Basilika sv. Jiří na Pražském hradě. Praha: Odeon, 1974 (English translation in it)
  • The Prague Castle in the summer of 1968. Prague: Theatre Institute, 1968
  • Jaromír Neumann: Guide to the Picture Gallery of Prague Castle. Praha: Orbis, 1966
  • Roberta Finlayson-Samsour: The Prague Castle. Praha: STN, 1965
  • Czechoslovakia: A Thousand Years of the Old Art of Slovakia: Great Exhibition at Prague Castle. Prague: Výstavní výbor, 1938
  • The Castle of Prague and the royal summer residence [Belvedere]. Prague: Prague Castle Administration Office, 1930
  • Jan Morávek: Guide to Prague Castle: History of the Castle. Prague: Orbis, 1930
  • Igor Kovačević (ed.): Beyond everydayness theatre architecture in Central Europe. Prague: National Theatre, 2010
  • Jan Klápště: The archaeology of Prague and the medieval Czech lands, 1100-1600. Sheffield/Bristol: Equinox, 2016
  • Jiří Fajt (ed.): Court chapels of the high and late middle ages and their artistic decoration: [proceedings from the international symposium, Convent of St. Agnes of Bohemia = Dvorské kaple vrcholného a pozdního středověku a jejich umělecká výzdoba : sborník příspěvků z mezinárodního sympozia, Klášter sv. Anežky České 23.9.-25.9.1998]. Prague: National Gallery, 2003
  • Lisa Wolverton: Hastening toward Prague: power and society in the medieval Czech lands. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001
  • Bohumil Chalupníček (ed.): The Residence of the Mayor of Prague. Prague: KANT for the Capital City of Prague, 2018
  • Tomáš Vlček (ed.): The Museum of Czech Cubism: guide to the permanent exhibition in the Black Madonna House. Muzeum českého kubismu (Praha, Česko). Prague: National Gallery, 2004
  • Edwin Becker / Roman Prahl / Petr Wittlich (eds.): Prague 1900: poetry and ecstasy. Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum, 1999
  • Alexander von Vegesack (ed.): Czech Cubism: Architecture, Furniture, and Decorative Arts 1910–1925. London: Laurence King, 1992     
  • Irena Žantovská Murray: Czech Cubism: Architecture and Design, 1910–1925: [Kat. výstavy], New York 6. duben - 5. červenec 1993. New York: Cooper-Hewitt: National Museum of Design: Smithsonian Institution, 1992   
  • Jiří Švestka / Tomáš Vlček (eds.): Czech cubism 1909–1925: art, architecture, design. Praha: Modernista, 2006
  • Karolína Dolanská (ed.): Modern and Contemporary Czech Art 1890–2010. Prague: National Gallery, 2010

 

Last update: Jarošová Markéta, PhDr., Ph.D. (15.08.2024)
Syllabus

Winter semester schedule:

 

17:10-18:40

8. 10. 2024   Introduction at Catholic Theological Faculty

 

Group nr. 1.      15. 10. 2024 17:10

Hradčany Square and Nerudova Street

Sochrová Stela 

Brzobohatá Marie 

Group nr. 2       22. 10. 2024 17:10

Church of Our Lady of Victories a Wallenstein Garden

Růžičková Zuzana, Bc. 

Fryčová Karolína  

 

Group nr. 3     29. 10. 2024  17:10

Charles Bridge with the Bridge´s Towers and the church of St. Francis of Assisi

Meneguzzo Alice 

Turcu Elena 

 

Group nr. 4      5. 11. 2024 17:10

Old Town Hall, House at the Stone Lamb, House at the Minute, Marian column

Karbanová Anna 

Ulrychová Zuzana 

 

Group nr. 5       12. 11. 2024  17:10

Rudolfinum, Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague and Josefov

Plaštiak Marian 

Hámová Gabriela

Group nr. 6       26. 11. 2024 17:10

National Theatre and the National Street

Trifonova Mariya 

Kalinichev Stepan 

Deva Chrastina

Group nr. 7        3. 12. 2024 17:10

Municipal House, Powder Tower, and the House of the Black Madonna

Hellerová Eliška 

Holubcová Jana 

 

Group nr. 8      10. 12. 2024 17:10

Náměstí Míru (Peace Square) with the Basilica of St. Ludmila

Béberová Tereza   

Bilá Barbara          

 

11.   17. 12. 2024  Final written test at Catholic Theological Faculty

 

 IMPORTANT NOTE: Classes will be held outdoors. Students should be prepared for cold and rainy weather!!! :)

 

For Erasmus+ students I prepared some short videos about Prague's cultural heritage. If you are interested, you can check them out through the links below:

Please,  turn up the volume, it might be necessary :)

Welcome to Prague (3 videos)

1. https://1url.cz/PuWpL
2. https://1url.cz/juWpt
3. https://1url.cz/puWpz

Belvedere

1. https://1url.cz/zuWp1

Lobkowicz Palace (3 videos)

1. https://1url.cz/TuWpK
2. https://1url.cz/fuWpr
3. https://1url.cz/DuWpu

Lesser Town

1. https://1url.cz/buWpe

St. Nicholas Church, Lesser Town Square

1. https://1url.cz/2uWpR

Charles Bridge (2 videos)

1. https://1url.cz/KuWpN
2. https://1url.cz/7uWp2

Statue of John of Nepomuk, Charles Bridge (2 videos)

1. https://1url.cz/auWpW
2. https://1url.cz/puWpw

Powder Gate, Old Town of Prague (2 videos)

1. https://1url.cz/9uWpl
2. https://1url.cz/huWpF

Municipal House, Old Town of Prague (3 videos)

1. https://1url.cz/uuWpB
2. https://1url.cz/DuWpp
3. https://1url.cz/4uWpG

House of the Black Madonna, Old Town of Prague (2 videos)

1. https://1url.cz/3uWpq
2. https://1url.cz/auWpE

Last update: Jarošová Markéta, PhDr., Ph.D. (22.10.2024)