Ancient Oriental Art

Code:

FLUP0141

Acronym:

AOA

Instance: 2003/2004 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Heritage Studies
Institution Responsible:	Faculty of Arts

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
FIL	0	Official Study Plan - LFIL	3	2,5	5	-
		Plano oficial 2003 - 1º ao 3º ano	3	2,5	5	-
HA	64	Official Study Plan - LHA	1	2,5	5	-
		Official Study Plan - LHA	1	2,5	5	-
		Plano oficial a partir de 2002	1	2,5	5	-

Program

0. Geography and chronology of the Egyptian art

1. Egypt: the land, the gods and the men
1.1 The sacred and the gods: The order and the chaos

2. Architecture
2.1 Architecture and burial places
2.2 Typologies
2.3 Religious architecture
2.4 Typologies
2.5 Military, civil and private architectures
2.6 Typologies
2.7 Spatial concepts and meanings of the old Egypt architectures

3. Painting and relief
3.1 Forms, techniques and themes
3.2 Styles and their evolution

4. Sculpture
4.1 Forms, techniques and themes
4.2 Sculptural types - functions - social representations

5. Representational canons in the old Egypt

6. The Arts of Mesopotamia
6.0 The geography and the chronologies of the Mesopotomian arts
6.1 Urbanization and architecture
6.2 Materials, techniques and forms
6.2.1 The Temple and the Palace

7. Sculpture and Relief
7.1 Forms, techniques and themes
7.2 The monumental relief

3. Roman art in Portugal
3.1. Architectoral.sculpture
3.2. Religious sculpture
3.3. Sepulchral sculpture
3.4. Painting and pictorial ornamentation
3.5. Goldsmith’s engraving and toreutics

4. Gothic art in Portugal
4.1. Architectoral.sculpture
4.2. Religious sculpture
4.3. Sepulchral sculpture
4.4. Mural paintings and painting of retables
4.5. Pictorial ornamentation
4.6. Goldsmith’s engraving and toreutics

Main Bibliography

DESROCHES-NOBLECOURT, Christiane - L’Art Égyptien, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1962
DONADONI, Sergio - Arte del Egipto Antiguo, in “História Universal del Arte”, Madrid, Ed. Everest, 1988
JANSON, H.W. - História da Arte, Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1977
Les Pharaons, Dir. Jean Leclant, Col. L’Univers des Formmes, 3 vols., Paris, Gallimard, 1979
PIJOAN, J. - História da Arte, vol. 1, Lisboa, Publicações Alfa, 1972
WOOLLEY, Leonard - Mésopotamie. Asie Antérieure. L’Art Ancien du Moyen-Orient, Paris, Michel, 1961

Complementary Bibliography

No tratamento de cada tema será aconselhada biblioteca específica.