Subject

Great Works of Art

  • code 12300
  • course 3
  • term Semester 1
  • type OB
  • credits 6

Main language of instruction: Catalan

Other languages of instruction: English

Teaching staff

Head instructor

Dra. Marta CRISPÍ - mcrispi@uic.es

Office hours

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.
  • E03 - Ability to appropriately use key concepts in the area of culture.
  • E04 - Ability to recognise and interpret cultural manifestations.
  • E11 - Ability to interpret data and relate it to appropriate theories.
  • E12 - To acquire knowledge and understanding of imaginary, iconic and symbolic languages and their representation.
  • E13 - To acquire knowlege of the general diachronic framework of the past.
  • E15 - Ability to identify and value the different elements which make up cultural heritage.
  • E22 - To acquire knowledge of and the ability to use data collection instruments (biliographic catalogues, inventory archives, documentary sources, electronic sources, etc).
  • E25 - Ability to communicate orally in one's own language and other languages using the terminology and resources accepted in the cultural framework of each language
  • E26 - Ability to read and write texts in one's own language and other languages, as well as transcribe, summarise and categorise pertinent information.
  • G01 - To analyse and interpret social and cultural environments to identify need, opportunities, weaknesses and strenghts..
  • G02 - To lead, cooordinate and form part of interdisciplinary work teams.
  • G03 - To search for and/or administer economic resources within the framework of an institution or company, or a cultural programmes, project or service.
  • G05 - To act responsibly and produce high-quality, rigorous and efficient work that benefits society.
  • G08 - Ability to carry out research.
  • G10 - Management of ICT skills, organisation and information management.

Learning outcomes of the subject

The student

CGI01 - understands and expresses ideas and arguments with order and coherence in an oral an writting way

CGI02 - has capacity of analysis and synthesis

CGI03 - has capacity of criticism and self-criticism

CGI05 - knows how to work with autonomy

CGI08 - knows how to use research tools

CGI10 - uses the TIC’s and organises and manages the information

 

Specific competences

CEA02 - uses methods and techniques of the human sciences

CEA03 - knows and uses properly the key concepts of culture 

CEA04 - recognises and interprets cultural manifestations

CEA11 - interprets data from observation in relation with their significance and links them with appropriate theories

CEA12 - knows and interprets imaginary, iconic and simbolic languages and their representation.

CEA13 - knows the general diacronic frame from the past

CEA15 - identifies and gives value to those elements which conform cultural heritage

CED22 - uses data tools as bibliographical catalogues, archive inventaries, documental sources, electronical references, etc... 

CED25 - uses his own language and others with terminology and techniques accepted in the cultural frame of each one

CED26 - reads and writes original texts and documents in his own language and others, as well as  en la propia lengua y en otras, as well as transcribes, summerises and catalogues information in an appropriate way

 

Syllabus

  1. From the mastaba to the pyramids.
  2. Mesopotamia (Victory Stele of Naram-Sim, Ishtar Gate, Gudea, Code of Hammurabi, Wounded Lioness Relief).
  3. Gothic introduction. Gothic architecture. Notre-Dame de Chartres: A Gothic cathedral model.
  4. Gothic sculpture of the 13th century in France.
  5. Arch of Constantine/Statue of Augustus Prima Porta.
  6. Gothic painting and miniature of the 13th century in France.
  7. The Trecento in Tuscany: the sculpture by Nicola and Giovanni Pisano.
  8. The Trecento in Tuscany: the revolution of the great Florentine and Sienese painters. Giotto and the Scrovegni chapel.
  9. The 14th century in France.
  10. The 15th century in France and Germany.
  11. International Gothic. The Great Hours of the Duke of Berry.
  12. Flemish Gothic: Roger van der Weyden and Jan van Eyck.
  13. St. Peter of the Vatican.
  14. The Sistine Chapel.
  15. Bosch: The Garden of Earthly Delights.
  16. Pre-Columbian art.
  17. Botticelli: Spring and The Birth of Venus.
  18. Las Hilanderas by Velázquez and The Three Graces by Rubens.
  19. Versailles.
  20. Le Brun.
  21. Poussin, Et in Arcadia ego.
  22. The Pompier.
  23. Japanese art and its influence on the West in the 19th century.
  24. Gauguin and Les Nabis.
  25. Architecture of the 20th century: Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe.
  26. Twentieth century architecture: Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright.

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 (30%)

2. A Midterm and a Final exam (35% each)

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

 

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.

 

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