Art History III

Code:

HA201

Acronym:

HAIII

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Art Sciences

Instance: 2019/2020 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Ciências da Arte e do Design
Course/CS Responsible:	Fine Arts

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
AP	97	Official Study Plan 2011	2	-	3	34	81

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Culture in general and the history and theory of the arts in particular are fundamental tools for developing projects and student work in other disciplines, allowing them to develop specific plastic research; thus, they have an important role in their training and assessment, allowing them to reflect about their own artistic practice. In our era of proliferation of digital images, art history continues to demonstrate that the images that mark the contemporary visual culture did not emerge from nothing, and that analysis of its material basis and its social context is absolutely necessary for a proper historical understanding of its function and its visual impact. Artworks are the product of various interactions between artists sensitive to visuality and specific historical circumstances. The function of art history is therefore to understand this creative process in multiple ways. 

Learning outcomes and competences

Instead of a tight knowledge, of a body of pre-defined ideas, closed on itself, we intend to convey the idea that the history of art is a reflection on the past essentially open and dynamic, receptive to new problematizations, with a theoretical basis necessarily influenced by emerging issues and by contemporarity. Departing from a broad conceptual framework and a variety of historical and artistic situations and cultural contexts, we will seek to combat certain prejudices, such as the evidence of the image, which states that the visible imposes itself in an immediate way, independently of any knowledge. The deepening of knowledge and tools for analysis leads to the perception that art history is an open field and highly conflictual, where various opinions and positions intertwine and confront, and where the stimulating and fruitful dialogue between artists and intellectuals is always present.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. Art and Visual Culture in the Mannerist Period 1.1. Mannerism: evolution and definition of a concept. 1.2. The cultural environment of the Mannerist period: an art for the educated elites. Relationship between art and society. 1.3. The raising of the social status of the artist and the notion of artistic genius. Bizarre fantasy, inventive dexterity and complexity. 1.4. The development of art collections and the reception of works of art. Engravings and their role as diffusers of art. The taste for the exotic, the monstrous and the grotesque. 2. Art and Visual Culture in the Baroque period 2.1. The genesis and evolution of the concept of the baroque. 2.2. The historical context: a new culture of the image. The Counter-Reformation and propagandistic zeal. The function of images. Persuasion and devotion. The new scientific and philosophical juncture. 2.3. The state and the capital. Rome, home of the arts. Reinforcement of the importance of the papal court. The new idea of monumentality. Visual rhetoric, architecture and urbanism. 2.4. The need for representation of a festive culture. The palaces of Vaux-le-Vicomte and Versailles. 2.5. Baroque and Rococo painting. 2.6. Bernini and Baroque sculpture. 2.7. Decorative arts and material culture. Rococo art.

Mandatory literature

Argan, Giulio Carlo; L’Âge Baroque, Editions d’Art Albert Skira, 1994
Bailey Gauvin Alexander; Baroque and rococo. ISBN: 978-0-7148-5742-8
Barker Emma 340; Art & visual culture. ISBN: 978-1-84976-096-6
Battisti Eugenio; Renascimento e maneirismo
Bérchez Joaquín; Arte del barroco. ISBN: 84-7679-308-1
Burckhardt Jacob; A^civilização do renascimento italiano
Burke, Peter; The Italian Renaissance – Culture and Society in Italy, Princeton University Press, 1986
Checa Cremades Fernando; EL Barroco. ISBN: 84-7090-122-2
Cornette, Joel e Mérot, Alain; Histoire artistique de l’Europe - Le XVIIème siècle, eds. du Seuil, 1999
Delumeau Jean; La Renaissance. ISBN: 2-02-017385-9
Frontisi Claude 300; Historia visual del arte. ISBN: 84-8332-644-2
Gombrich E. H.; A história da arte
Gowing Lawrence 340; A^History of art. ISBN: 1-85627-758-5
Hale J.R. 300; Enciclopedia de renacimiento italiano. ISBN: 84-206-5219-9
Hartt Frederick; Art. ISBN: 0-8109-1884-6
Honour Hugh; Historia mundial del arte. ISBN: 84-460-2092-0
Hughes Anthony; Michelangelo. ISBN: 0-7148-3483-1
Kemp, Martin; História da Arte no Ocidente, Verbo, 2006
Kemp Martin 340; The Oxford history of western art. ISBN: 0-19-860012-7
King Margaret L.; The^renaissance in Europe. ISBN: 1-85669-374-0 26.00
Martin, John Rupert; Barroco, Xarait Libros, 1986
Minor Vernon Hyde; Baroque & rococo. ISBN: 1-85669-173-X
Murray Linda; The high renaissance and mannerism. ISBN: 0-500-20162-5
Murray Linda; Michelangelo. ISBN: 0-500-01315-2 15.49
Nieto Alcaide Victor; El Renacimiento. ISBN: 84-7090-108-7
Onians John; Atlas mundial del arte. ISBN: 84-9801-040-3
Rosand David; Painting in sixteenth-century Venice. ISBN: 0-521-56568-5
Schianchi Lucia Fornari 340; Parmigianino. ISBN: 88-8215-481-5
Shearman John; Manierismo. ISBN: 84-85434-25-0
Snodin, Michael e Llewellyn, Nigel (ed. de); Baroque 1620-1800: Style in the Age of Magnificence, Victoria and Albert Publishing, 2009
Steer John; Atlas de l.art occidental. ISBN: 2-850-88-132-5
Stokstad Marilyn; Art history. ISBN: 0-8109-1960-5
Tinagli, Paola; Women in Italian Renaissance Art: Gender, Representation, Identity, Manchester University Press, 1997
Turner Nicholas; Desenhos de mestres europeus em colecções portugueses. ISBN: 972-8176-53-8
Vigarello, Georges; Historia del cuerpo, vol. I, Del Renacimiento al Siglo de las Luces, Editorial Taurus, 2005

Comments from the literature

Due to budget cuts, some books are still not available at the library of FBAUP.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Lessons consist in the presentation of the different themes, accompanied by audiovisual material, according to the specificity of the Course in question. Students must systematically attend classes and read the available literature provided on each summary, which complements and builds upon information provided. The readings and individual research are considered a fundamental part of the learning process.

keywords

Humanities > History > Art History
Humanities > Arts > Visual arts

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	100,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	40,00
Frequência das aulas	60,00
Total:	100,00

Eligibility for exams

Enforcement of attendance by students will be checked in all classes through an attendance record, which is intended for statistical purposes and internal control. Given the actual operation of this Course (a huge number of students enrolled and only one teacher, which makes close monitoring of attendance and exclusion of non-compliant students almost impossible), attendance, although very important, is not a pre-requirement for evaluation. Nevertheless, the presence of students in classes is essential, since the completion of the final exam requires the knowledge of the contents taught and discussed weekly.

Calculation formula of final grade

The final classification matches the classification obtained in the final exam. This one consists solely of a written test. The completion of the exam presupposes deep knowledge of the syllabus taught in the different classes, as well as of the bibliography indicated as mandatory. The assessment criteria of the exams are: Conceptual and scientific rigor, appropriateness of the answer in relation to the question asked; specific knowledge demonstrated; clarity of the answer's structure and of the written speach.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Special assignments or exams are not allowed.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

By final exam only, as recorded in the General Rules for Evaluation of Students from FBAUP.

Classification improvement

The improvement of the final grade shall be exclusively by final exam, as recorded in the General Rules for Evaluation of Students from FBAUP.

Observations

Attention to students: Mondays from 09.00 a.m. to 11.00 a.m., by previous appointment, given the high number of students.