Art History I

Code:

HA101

Acronym:

HAI

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
CNAEF	Arts

Instance: 2023/2024 - 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	82	Plano de estudos de LAP_publicaçao em DR de 24/05/2021	1	-	3	30	81
DC	63	Plano Oficial do ano letivo 2017	1	-	3	30
		Plano de estudos de LDC_publicaçao em DR de 24/05/2022	1	-	3	30	81
LD	24	Plano de estudos de LD_publicaçao em DR de 7 de junho de 2022	1	-	3	30	81

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

INTRODUCTION: This course is intended to provide students of various courses of FBAUP a common area of reflection on art, as part of cultural systems that have been changing over time and which differ in the various civilizations that originated them. Thus, the course’s program will be structured around major themes, which can raise the confrontation and dialogue among students with very different experiences and motivations. The course covers the historical period of the Medieval period, which gave rise to wonderful artistic productions that played a key role in the development of Western consciousness. The approach will be both historical and thematic, aiming to give students the analytical tools fundamental to the study and appreciation of Medieval art, both in its original socio-historical context, and on their importance and universal significance. The aim is to stimulate interest in reading of contemporary texts, studies and essays, and develop the capacity to understand the images, providing students with tools to observe and interpret the art object. The confrontation with artworks, themes and issues essential to the history of art will enable each student to weave her/his own ground for reflection. Based on major artworks, and other lesser-known examples of the history of Western art, we will attempt to provide students with a common critical language, giving special emphasis to the historical and cultural context and to formal analysis, so as to allow the understanding of some contemporary artistic practices. 

OBJECTIVES: To distinguish and identify the artistic achievements of the Middle Ages and their antecedents. To identify its aesthetic and formal characteristics. To characterize the socio-economic, political, religious, cultural and mental context of the emergence and development of each of the artistic styles of this period. To identify and characterize some of the works of art that exemplify each artistic style. To deepen knowledge by way of specialized readings.

To know the fundamental analytical tools for the study and appreciation of medieval art, both in its original socio-historical context and in terms of its importance and universal significance. To develop an interest in reading texts of that time, and specialized studies and essays. To acquire skills of understanding the images; to employ skills to observe and interpret the artistic object.

Learning outcomes and competences

To identify and describe political, religious, economic and social uses of Western art in the Middle Ages. To identify a set of artworks and artists. To know the role of art and artists in Western Europe in this period. To analyze Medieval art according to objective methods. To relate different types of art to the attitudes and values of the time.

To develop a critical mind, and skills of visual and comparative perception in the analysis of the work of art as both an artistic, aesthetic and historical object. To master a critical language specific to the area of Art History. To master the technical vocabulary, the concepts and the basic knowledge fundamental to the study of the History of Art, with a special focus on the historical and cultural context and on formal analysis. To improve the  understanding of certain contemporary artistic practices, by integrating knowledge of the artistic past.

 

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

Does not apply

Program

1. A brief introduction to the discipline of art history. The "invention" of art.

 

1. Medieval Europe. Art and visual culture between 900 and 1400.

2.1. The worlds of art. Medieval society. The artistic practice.

 

2.2. Art and power. Visual communication. The word and the gesture. The monastery. The medieval religious orders: the will of asceticism and the will for ostentation. The pilgrimages and the cult of relics.

 

2.3. Life and death: representations of Heaven and Hell.

 

2.4. The devotional practices between 1200 and 1400. The cathedrals as the focus of public devotion. The sense of space. The color and the heavenly light. The representation of nature. The new representations of the sacred: Marian devotion, the body of Christ.

 

2.5. The realm of death. Funerary art and the preservation of memory. Awareness of individual death. The macabre themes.

 

2.6. The realm of the profane. Pleasure. The representations of the body. Transient beauty and death. Parody and humor: obscenities and "marginal art".

 

2.7. Decorative arts and material culture. Phenomena of taste and reception of works of art: secularization and popularization of the art in the late Middle Ages. Profane spaces.

 

 

Mandatory literature

Duby Georges; O tempo das catedrais
Gombrich E. H.; A história da arte
Hartt Frederick; Art. ISBN: 0-8109-1884-6
Honour Hugh; Historia mundial del arte. ISBN: 84-460-2092-0
Kemp, Martin ; História da Arte no Ocidente, Verbo, 2006
Kemp Martin 340; The Oxford history of western art. ISBN: 0-19-860012-7
Le Goff, Jacques e Truong, Nicholas; Uma história do corpo na Idade Média, Teorema, 2005
Shiner Larry; The^invention of art. ISBN: 0-226-75343-3
Stokstad Marilyn; Art history. ISBN: 0-8109-1960-5
Gowing Lawrence 340; A^History of art. ISBN: 1-85627-758-5
Sekules Veronica; Medieval art. ISBN: 978-0-19-284241-1
Duby Georges; A Idade Média. ISBN: 972-564-284-8

Complementary Bibliography

Camille, Michael; The Gothic Idol – Ideology and Image-Making in Medieval Art, Cambridge University Press, 1989
Camille Michael; Image on the edge. ISBN: 0-948462-28-0
Camille, Michael; The Medieval Art of Love, Calmann and King, 1998
Farago, France; A arte, Porto Editora, 2002
Harris, Jonathan; Art History: The Key Concepts, Routledge, 2006
Lucie-Smith Edward; L. érotisme dans l.art occidental
Frontisi Claude 300; Historia visual del arte. ISBN: 84-8332-644-2
D.Alleva Anne; Look!. ISBN: 0-13-174505-0
Camille, Michael; Gothic Art: Visions and Revelations of the Medieval World, Calmann and King, 1996
D’Alleva, Anne; Methods and Theories of Art History, Lawrence King, 2005
Williams Robert; Art theory. ISBN: 1-4051-0707-3 35.68
Weir Anthony; Images of lust. ISBN: 0-415-151-56-2
Pointon, Marcia; History of Art. A Student’s Handbook, Routledge, 1997
Lucie-Smith, Edward; Sexuality in Western Art, Thames & Hudson, 1991
Onians John; Atlas mundial del arte. ISBN: 84-9801-040-3

Comments from the literature

Some references, added later, are not in alphabetical order.

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 > Arts > Visual arts
Humanities > History > Art History

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	51,00
Frequência das aulas	30,00
Total:	81,00

Eligibility for exams

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:

THE FINAL EXAMINATION WILL BE NON-PRESENTIAL, CONSISTING OF A TEST TO BE EXCLUSIVELY DONE ONLINE, THROUGH THE MOODLE PLATFORM (WRITEN WORK WITH TURNITIN), ON A DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED IN THE ASSESSMENTS CALENDAR.


Attention to students: Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., by previous appointment, given the high number of students.