Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
Great Works of Art
Other languages of instruction: English
Teaching staff
By appointment with the professors.
Introduction
Great Works of Art History is a 6-credit course taught during the first semester of the 3rd year in the Degree of Humanities and Cultural Studies. It belongs to the field of knowledge of Art History.
Through this course we will make a chronological trip around great works of Art History from the ancient civilisations to the contemporary world. From a selection of master works of different historical periods, we will analyse the works from different points of view: style, iconography, technique, building process, and other related aspects such as the artist and the clients, as well as the most important associated bibliography and documents. The study of each work will be placed in the artistical and historical context of its time, helping to understand it in time and place and having a global and coherent knowledge of it.
Pre-course requirements
It is recommended to have already attended Antique Culture, Medieval Culture, Modern Culture and Contemporary Culture.
Objectives
-To know about Art History and its artistic trends through the analysis of some of its masterpieces.
-To know how to analyse works of art, from architecture, painting, sculpture, and other singular pieces of art.
-To introduce students to the world of research through the use of specialised sources and bibliography.
Competences/Learning outcomes of the degree programme
- E02 - Ability to use methods and techniques specific to human sciences.
- E09 - To understand the limits and forms of intercultural communication.
- E11 - Ability to interpret data and relate it to appropriate theories.
- E31 - To pass on knowledge and good practices to other sectors.
- G03 - To search for and/or administer economic resources within the framework of an institution or company, or a cultural programmes, project or service.
- G10 - Management of ICT skills, organisation and information management.
Learning outcomes of the subject
The student
8. Know and select specific documentation about cultural experiences
Syllabus
1 - From the mastaba to the pyramids. The Amarna Revolution.
2 - Mesopotamia (Steal of Naram-Sim, Ishtar Gate, Gudea, Hammurabi Code, the Relief of the wounded lioness) / Research Paper: citation and State of the Art.
3. Pompei and Herculano.
4. Santa Sofia of Constantinople and Bizantine architecture.
5 - The renovatio carolíngia: Aquisgran and the great carolingean scriptorium.
6 - Santiago de Compostela and the pilgrimage churches.
7 - Romanesque Catalan Painting.
8 - The italian pulpits of the Duecento and Trecento: Nicola i Giovanni Pisano.
9 - The Mosque of Còrdova and the Alhambra.
10 -Trecento Italian Painting: the Scrovegni Chapel, Giotto (Pàdua).
11- The International Gothic: The Very Rich Hours of the Duke of Berry and the sepulcre of the Count of Burgundy.
12 - Jan van Eyck: The Arnolfini Portrait and the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb altarpiece.
13 - The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch.
14 - Saint Peter of the Vatican.
15 - The Sixtine Chapel.
16 - Botticelli, The Spring, The Birth of Venus.
17 - Miquel Angelo.
18 - Velázquez.
19 - Borromini vs Bernini.
20 - Women Artists I (from the Middle Ages to the Barroque).
21 - Jacques-Louis David.
22 - Women Artists II (from Neoclassicism to the 19th Century).
23 - Historicism and eclecticism. John Ruskin, Augustus Pugin and William Morris.
24 - L’École de Barbizon and Courbet.
25 - Le Corbusier/Mies/Sullivan/Wright.
26 - Women Artists III (segle XX).
28 - Rodin.
Teaching and learning activities
In person
The classes will combine theory with the analysis of texts. The theorical part will be always accompanied with images and visual content. The practical part will consist of readings of adequate texts from art history sources, research articles, museum visits and field trips. The students must do a research paper on an artistical work not seen in class. There will be individual corrections with the professor.
Evaluation systems and criteria
In person
The assessment will be:
1. A research paper on a work of art not seen in class, handed in the day of the final exam (25%)
2. A Midterm and a Final exam (30% each)
3. Attendance and participation (15%)
In order to pass the course, the students must pass the paper and the two exams (more that a 5 is needed in every case in order to calculate the average)
The research paper must be submitted the day of the final exam. It will be assessed following these criteria:
1. Formal presentation
2. Documentation and bibliography used
3. Critical analysis and personal opinion
4. Orthography and grammar
Students must take in account:
1. The use of the language is very important in this course, in the exams and in the research paper. Be careful with grammar and orthography mistakes. The use of the specific terminology is recommended. Each of these mistakes will mean 0.25 points less.
2. Plagiarism is absolutely forbidden and will mean a 0. The ideas taken from another author must be referenced in a footnote and in the bibliography, and if it is an exact quote it must be quoted between inverted comas.
Bibliography and resources
Each topic has an specific bibliography which will be given at the beginning of the class.
Bibliografia
Egypt
Manniche, Lise (1997). El arte egipcio. Madrid: Alianza editorial.
Stevenson Smith, W. (2000). Arte y arquitectura del Antiguo Egipto. Madrid: Cátedra. Manuales Arte Cátedra.
Wilkinson, Richard J. (2002). Los templos del Antiguo Egipto. Madrid: Destino.
Padró, Josep. (1996). Historia del Egipto faraónico. Madrid: Alianza Editorial.
Mesopotamia
FRANCKFORT, Henry, Arte y Arquitectura del Oriente Antiguo, Madrid: Cátedra, 1982Pompei and Herculano
BARRY, Joanne, The Complete Pompei, London, Thames& Hudson, 2017
Santa Sofia de Constantinoble
Beckwith, J. (1997). Arte paleocristiano y bizantino. Madrid : Cátedra.
Egea, J. M. (2003). Relato de cómo se construyó Santa Sofía : Según la descripción de varios códices y autores. Granada : Centro de Estudios Bizantinos, Neogriegos y Chipriotas.
Krautheimer, R. (2009). Arquitectura paleocristiana y bizantina. Madrid : Cátedra. Mainstone, R. J. (Rowland J. . (1988). Hagia Sophia : architecture, structure, and liturgy of Justinian’s great church. London : Thames and Hudson.
Mango, C. (1975). Arquitectura bizantina. Madrid : Aguilar.
La capella palatina d’Aquisgran i l’art carolingi
Bango Torviso, I. (1989). El Prerrománico en Europa : de Carlomagno a los Otones. Madrid : Historia 16.
Braunfels, W., Arquitectura monacal en Occidente, Barcelona, 1975.
Caillet, J.-P. (2005). L’art carolingien. Paris : Flammarion.
Conant, K. J. (1987). Arquitectura carolingia y románica, 800-1200. Madrid : Cátedra.
Dodwell, C.R (1995). Artes pictóricas en Occidente, 800-1200. Madrid: Cátedra
webgrafia
Catedral d’Aquisgrà
https://www.aachenerdom.de/en/
Santiago de Compostel·la
Bango Torviso, Isidro (1994). "Las llamadas' iglesias de peregrinación o el arquetipo de un estilo". En: El camino de Santiago: Camino de las Estrellas, Madrid, pág. 233-284.
Castiñeiras González, M. A. (2010). Compostela y Europa : la historia de Diego Gelmírez. Milano: Skira.
Yzquierdo Peiró, R., Castiñeiras, M. A., Valle Pérez, J. C., & Museo del Prado. (2016). Maestro Mateo en el Museo del Prado. [Madrid] : Museo Nacional del Prado.
Yarza Luaces, J. (1979). Arte y arquitectura en España 500-1250. Madrid : Cátedra.
webgrafia
http://www.porticodelagloria.com/lectura-del-portico.html
https://albertosolana.wordpress.com/el-descubrimiento-del-sepulcro/
Santa Maria de Ripoll
Bango Torviso, I. G. (1990). El Monasterio medieval. Madrid : Anaya.
Braunfels, W., Arquitectura monacal en Occidente, Barcelona, 1975
Castiñeiras, M., & Camps i Sòria, J. (2008). El Romànic i la Mediterrània : Catalunya, Toulouse i Pisa, 1120-1180 : Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, 29 febrer-18 maig 2008. Barcelona : Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya.
Junyent, Eduard (1975). El monestir de Ripoll. Barcelona
Ordeig, Ramon (2014). El monestir de Ripoll en temps dels seus primers abats (anys 879 - 1008). Vic
Yarza Luaces, J. (1979). Arte y arquitectura en España 500-1250. Madrid : Cátedra.
Yarza, J. (1987) “La portalada de Ripoll”. A: Catalunya romànica. Vol. X, Ripollès.
Webgrafia
http://www.monestirderipoll.cat/
Chartres
Chacon-Gómez Monedero, Francisco y Salamanca López, Manuel (2010). La catedral. Símbolo del renacer de Europa. Cuenca: Ed. Alderabán.
Erlander-Brandenburg, Alain. La catedral. Madrid: càtedra.
Kurmann-Schwarz, B., Kurmann, P., Kayser, T. de., & Sauvageot, C. (2001). Chartres : la cathédrale. [Saint-Léger-Vauban] : [Zodiaque].
Lévis-Godechot, N. (1987). Chartres : révélée par sa sculpture et ses vitraux. [Paris] : Zodiaque.
Mâle, Émile (1983). Notre Dame de Chartres. París: Flammarion
Prache, A., & Jouanneaux Françoise., F. (2000). Chartres, la cathédrale Notre-Dame. Paris : Centre des monuments nationaux.
Recht, Roland (1999). Le croire et le voir. L’art des cathédrales (XIIè – XV siècle). París: Gallimard.
Simson, O. G. von, & Villaverde, F. (1980). La Catedral gótica : los orígenes de la arquitectura gótica y el concepto medieval de orden. Madrid : Alianza.
Williamson, P. (1997). Escultura gótica [1140-1300]. Madrid : Cátedra.
Els púlpit del baptisteri de Pisa de Nicola Pisano i el púlpit de Pistoia d’Andrea Pisano
Carli, E., & Amendola, A. (1986). Giovanni Pisano : il pulpito di Pistoia. Milano : Mondadori.
Moskowitz, A. F. (2001). Italian Gothic sculpture : c. 1250-c. 1400. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.
Moskowitz, A. F. (2005). Nicola & Giovanni Pisano: the pulpits: pious devotion, pious diversion. London: Harvey Miller.
Pope-Hennessy, J. W. (1996). Italian gothic sculpture (4th ed.). London : Phaidon.
White, J. (1989). Arte y arquitectura en Italia: 1250-1400. Madrid : Cátedra.
Giotto
Frugoni, C., Criscenti, L., Criscenti, N., & Mondadori, C. (2005). La Cappella degli Scrovegni di Giotto. Torino : Einaudi.
White, J. (1989). Arte y arquitectura en Italia : 1250-1400. Madrid : Cátedra.
Molt riques hores del duc de Berry
Husband, T., J. Paul Getty Museum., & Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N. Y. (2008). The art of illumination : the Limbourg brothers and the Belles heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry. New Haven: Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Harthan, J. P. (1988). Books of hours and their owners (Repr.). London : Thames and Hudson.
Longnon, J., Cazelles, R., & Meiss, M. (1969). The Très Riches Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry : musée Condé, Chantilly. New York : George Braziller.
Musée du Louvre., É., & Avril, F. (2004). Paris, 1400 : les arts sous Charles VI. [Paris] : Fayard.
Jan van Eyck
Harbison, C. (1991). Jan van Eyck : the play of realism. London : Reaktion Books.
Pächt, O., & Schmidt-Dengler, M. (1999). Van Eyck and the founders of early Netherlandish painting. London : Harvey Miller.
Yarza Luaces, J. (1993). Jan van Eyck. Madrid : Historia 16.
Botticelli
Murray, Peter; Murray, Linda, El arte del Renacimiento, Ediciones Destino: Barcelona, 1991 (1963)
Argan, Giulio Carlo, Renacimiento y Barroco, Ediciones Akal: Madrid, 1996 (1987)
Miquelangelo
Coughlan, Robert, El mundo de Miguel Ángel, Time-Life Books: Amsterdam, 1981 (1966)
Rudolf Wittkower, La Escultura: procesos y principios, Madrid: Alianza, 1980
Velázquez
Pérez Sánchez, Alfonso, Pintura barroca en España (1600-1750), Manuales de Arte Cátedra: Madrid, 1996
AAVV, Velázquez, Catálogo de exposición, Museo del Prado-Ministerio de Cultura: Madrid, 1990
Bernini and Borromini
Wittkower, Rudolf, La arquitectura en la edad del Humanismo, Alianza: Madrid, 1995 (1949)
Blunt, Anthony, Borromini, Alianza Forma: Madrid, 2005 (1979)
Borsi, Franco, Bernini, Akal Arquitectura: Madrid, 1998 (1984)
Wittkower, Rudolf, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Alianza Forma: Madrid, 1990 (1955)
Wittkower, Rudolf, Arte y arquitectura en Italia (1600-1750), Manuales de Arte Cátedra: Madrid, 2007 (1958)
Rudolf Wittkower, La Escultura: procesos y principios, Madrid: Alianza, 1980
Women Artists
Auricchio, Laura, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard: artist in the age of revolution, Getty Publications – (Yale), 2009
Caamaño Fernández, Rosa Elvira, Educación y dedicación: aportaciones de las grandes pintoras al arte: desde la antigüedad hasta 1800, Servizo de Publicacións da Universidade de Vigo, 2012
Diego Otero, Estrella de, La mujer y la pintura del siglo XIX español (cuatrocientas olvidadas y algunas más), Madrid, Cátedra, 1987
Hall-Van den Elsen, C. Fuerza e intimismo: Luisa Roldán, escultora (1652-1706). Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2018
Historia del arte y mujeres, Málaga, Universidad de Málaga, 1996
Mujeres impresionistas. La otra mirada, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Bilbao, 2002
PORQUERES, Bea, Quaderns per a la co-educació: Deu segles de creativitat femenina. Una altra història de l’art, Barcelona, Institut de Ciències de l’Educació, 1995
LORENZO ARRIBAS, Josemi, Hildegarda de Bingen, Biblioteca de Mujeres. Ediciones del Orto, 1996
Adler, Kathleen, Garb, Tamar, Berthe Morisot,London, Phaidon, 1995
Ayral-Clause, Odile, Camille Claudel, a life,New York, Harry N. Abrams, 2002
Caffin Madaule, Liliane, Catalogue raisonné des oeuvres de Maria Blanchard, London, Liliane Caffin Madaule, 1992-94. (2 v.)
Liubov Popova, 1889-1924,Munich, Prestel, 1991
Néret, Gilles, Tamara de Lempicka, 1898-1980, Cologne, Taschen, 1992
Pérez Carreño, Francisca, Artemisia Gentileschi, Madrid, Historia 16, 1993
PORQUERES, Bea, Sofonisba Anguissola, Biblioteca de Mujeres. Ediciones del Orto, 2003
Robert y Sonia Delaunay, 1905-1941, Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2002
VIGÉE-LEBRUN, Marie Louise Elisabeth, Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun, New York, George Braziller, 1989