Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2500239 Art History | OB | 3 | 2 |
A minimum knowledge of English or French is required in order to carry out the supervised and autonomous activities. It's worth remembering that most of the material for the course works are written in English.
Context
This course is part of the general subject Medieval Art History, of 24 ECTS, which includes four courses:Art in Europe from the 4th to the 10th centuries, Byzantine Art, Romanesque Art and Gothic Art.
The aim of this course is to lay the ground to enable the student to know and be familiar with basic knowledge of the chronological development of the artistic image, its formal values, its iconographic meanings, artistic techniques and procedures as well as its reception in the Byzantine milieu.
Students are expected to acquire on the course analytical, comparative and critical tools and basic methodology in order to acknowledge several forms of cultural expression and mainly to place Byzantine forms of expression within their geographical and political framework as well as their transmission in Europe, the Slav world, the Eastern Mediterranean countries and the Middle East.
Goals
1-Students are expected to acquire deep knowledge on the Arts of Byzantium or Byzantine-like expressions with a particular focus on its chronological, formal and typological development within the Byzantine milieu.
2- The ultimate goal of the course is to acquire deep knowledge on the connections between Art and the historical, political and cultural background of Byzantine society and its areas of influence, as well as on the several functions and contents of the artwork within this period.
Unit 1. The Arts of Byzantium: Introduction. Justinian’s prestigious models: architecture, mosaics, manuscript illumination, enamels, ivories and metalwork objects. Byzantine aesthetics, religious settings and expressions of faith: icons and the cult of sacred images. - Pilgrimage Art in Byzantium: (IV-X centuries): Eulogia, Charisteria and Encolpia.
Unit 2. The Art of Coptic Christianity: Byzantine Egypt.Monasticism, churches and rock sites. Iconography and visual content. Textiles. Liturgical implements. Icons and manuscript illumination.
Unit 3. Towards a Christian Orthodox Empire (680-843): Iconoclasm and the resolution of the Iconoclastic controversy. Islamic invasion: Umayyad Art and Byzantine Art. Iconoclasm as a sociological and conceptual phenomenon. Second Council of Nicaea (787). Wall paintings, icons and manuscript illumination.
Unit 4. Middle Byzantium (843-1204): Byzantium’s continuous engagement with its ancient past and the re-establishment of icon veneration. Macedonian and Komnenian Renaissance. -Courtly Art: architectural renewal of Constantinople. -Art in the monastery: domed cross-in-square plan. The Hosios Loukas model. -Cappadoce: architecture and rock painting. –Second flowering of Hellenistic aesthetics: an intensified revival of interest in classical art forms and ancient literature: mosaics, manuscript illumination, and ivory carving. Komnenian painting: pathos and movement. Mosaic and fresco programmes decorating vaulted and domed spaces to complement narrative.
Unit 5. The Arts ofArmenia: Peculiarities of the Armenian Christianity. The Armenian principalities. The Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia. Greater Armenia and Lesser Armenia. –Armenia and Byzantium (9th-11th centuries): architecture, carved reliefs and wall paintings. Aght’amar. Khatchkar. Manuscripts and metalwork objects. –Armenia and the Crusades (12th century). The Arts of the Great Armenia (13th-15th centuries): architecture and manuscript illumination.
Unit 6. Byzantium and the West: Italy, maritime trade and Constantinople: bronze doors. –Interchange networks within the Crusades and the Latin Conquest of Byzantium. –Crusaders Art. Venice, Norman Sicily, Cyprus and the Holy Land. Architecture and pictorial arts: circulation of Constantinopolitan models and local traditions. St. Mark’s Treasure. Byzantine models in the West.
Unit 7. Palaiologan Renaissance: Colourful use of materials and decorative motifs.Constantinople, Thessaloniki and Mystras.New pictorial humanism:narrative and expression.The Manual of the Painter of Mount Athos. Presence of Byzantine Art in Spain: Skylitzes, The Cuenca diptych and the Akathistos Escurialensis.
Unit 8. Byzantine Art: from the Balkans to Russia: Serbia,Bulgaria and Moravia. Russian-Byzantine architecture: Kiev and Novgorod. Moscow: the third Rome. Ivories and icons. Theophanes the Greek and Andrei Rublev.
Unit 9. Women and arts in Byzantium. Linage, education, patronage and devotions. The woman artists.
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Professor's Lectures will be complemented by student self-learning by delivering book and text comments.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Lessons (From Units 1 to 9) | 50 | 2 | 3, 4, 2, 12, 5, 1, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14, 6, 15 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Comment on texts | 50 | 2 | 3, 4, 2, 7, 11, 14, 6, 15 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
To write a review paper to be delivered | 50 | 2 | 3, 4, 2, 12, 5, 7, 10, 15 |
-First grade: written exam (50%). It will be evaluated the theoretical and practical knowledge that students have learnt during the lessons by the comparison of 3 images. The exam consists of: 3 pages to develop this comparison.
-Second grade: submission of a written book review (to be chosen among a list provided by the Professor) (25%).
-Thrid grade: written comment on texts dealing with topics which have been explained during the lectures (25 %).
The final grade will be the result of the addition of the written exam (50%), the book review (25%), and the comment on texts (25%).
Final grade: it will be the additon of the grade of the written papers and that of the exam. The result will be divide by 2.
As far the reassessment exam is concerned, its date is officilly fixed. This proof only involves the grade of the exam. Who has not submitted the papers can not pass this exam.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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First Evidence: Written test | 50% | 0 | 0 | 2, 12, 5, 9, 14, 6, 8, 15 |
Second Evidence: written review of a book | 25% | 0 | 0 | 1, 13, 15 |
Third Evidence: written comment on texts | 25% | 0 | 0 | 3, 4, 2, 12, 5, 1, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14, 6 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Basic
Coptic and Armenian art
Byzantium and the Latin West
http://www.metmuseum.org/research/metpublications/the_year_1200_a_background_survey
Russia
DVD
Texts
Arte Medieval I. Alta Edad Media y Bizancio, ed. Joaquin Yarzaet alii, Barcelona, GustavoGili, 1982.
Mango, Cyril, The Art of the Byzantine Empire, 312-1453: Sources and Documents, University of TorontoPress, 1986.
The Painter Manual of Dionysius of Fourna, ed. P. Hetherigton, Londres, 1981 (1974).
WEBSITES
Museums
www.doaks.org (Dumbarton Oaks Collection)
www.benaki.gr (Benaki Museum, Athens)
www.culture.gr (Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens)
www.alincom.com/tretiakov (The State Tretyakov, Moscow)
Byzantine Art
www.fordham.edu/halsall/medweb
www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/labyrinth-home.html
www.courtauld.ac.uk/pages/indexframe.htlm
Hagia Sophia's church in the byzantine time: https://youtu.be/HQ9KfQBwhIs
Theotokos, apse, Hagia Sophia (Iconoclasm and Iconoluds):
Speakers: Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
https://youtu.be/EmQ1TdoT-zE
Hagia Sophia: Masterpiece Deesis Mosaic and the Byzantine Renaissance: https://youtu.be/38asbg1WdA8
Monastery of Saint Catherine of Sinai
http://www.world-heritage-tour.org/africa/north-africa/egypt/saint-catherine/map.html
Icons from Sinai
PRESENTATION:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NicalTC4bLI
https://vimeo.com/9708525
Father Justin’s talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJsBqWSRFQ8
Mount Athos:
https://youtu.be/dY1MjA7AWRM
Panagia Asinou
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U__pZmxXUpI&t=&fbclid=IwAR2xDG1xGeoKJ8XofTvO3pfsI9_R1QqOT8qE-gqxGUzwI9u0aeOJBvMDYcM
Coptic Art
Elizabeth Bolman talks on the Red Monastery:
https://youtu.be/5-bcdKpM9h4
Armenia
http://armenianstudies.csufresno.edu/
-Churches of Historic Armenia
-Index of Armenian Art: Armenian Architecture
-Index of Armenian Art: Armenian Miniatures
-Saint Gregory of Ani
http://www.virtualani.org/mren/index.htm
http://socalgalopenwallet.blogspot.com/2011/08/interiors-of-st-grigor.html