Art in the Construction of Medieval Europe

Year
0
Academic year
2019-2020
Code
01012459
Subject Area
Área Científica do Menor
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
6.0
Type
Elective
Level
1st Cycle Studies

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

Theoretical and practical classes. The theoretical concepts are always accompanied by the display of images that are used as a basis for reflection and debate in which critical thinking is encouraged. The subjects learned in the classroom will be complemented by study visits, promoting direct contact with the object of study.

Learning Outcomes

The essential aim of this course is to provide students with knowledge that will enable them to identify and understand the main expressions of western art approximately between the 6th and the 13th centuries.

The broad approach used promotes understanding of a complex and multifaceted reality, which is naturally related to different geographical, historical and cultural contexts, and also highlights the failure of traditional reading mechanisms, based on reductive stylistic definitions and rigid chronologies.

At the end of the semester, students should be able to:

- identify and interpret the main artistic manifestations of this period;

- identify the main issues and debates related to them;

- organize and express the knowledge acquired with clarity and rigor;

- find and use fundamental bibliography.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Art in the Early Middle Ages.

Historiographical construction and artistic-historical development. The failure of labels.

The Christianization of the barbarous west. Visigothic experiences.

The Carolingian artistic "renovatio".

Art in pre-Romanesque Hispania. Particularities of “Asturian art” and artistic and cultural confluence in a Mozarabic context.

2. After the year one thousand: Europe covered by a “white cloak of churches”.

Monumentality; stone; the centrality of worship in Romanesque experience.

Feudal culture: lords and vassals; offerings and entreaties s.

Rituals and cults: death, final judgement, saints and relics.

Processes of production, commissioning  and reception. The king, the monks and the churches on pilgrimage routes.

The Council of Burgos and the imposition of the Roman ritual. Cluny’s role.

3. Art and architecture in the “construction” of territories. Portuguese dioceses and Romanesque cathedrals.

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria Luísa Pires do Rio Carmo Trindade

Assessment Methods

Continuous evaluation
Mini Tests: 100.0%

Final evaluation
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

ALMEIDA, C. A. F. de, História da Arte em Portugal. O Românico,  Lisboa, Alfa, 1986.

BARRAL I ALTET, X., O Mundo Românico. Cidades, Catedrais e Mosteiros, Colónia, Taschen, 1999.

CONANT, K. J., Arquitectura Carolíngia y Románica 800/1200, trad. esp., Madrid, Ediciones Cátedra, 1995.

DUBY, G., LACLOTTE, M., História Artística da Europa. A Idade Média, Lisboa, Quetzal, 1997, vol. I.

DUBY, G., O Tempo das Catedrais. A Arte e a Sociedade (980-1420), Lisboa, Estampa, 1979.

FOCILLON, H., Arte do Ocidente: A Idade Média Românica e Gótica, Lisboa, Estampa, 1980.

GRAF, G., Portugal Roman, Yonne, Zodiaque, 1986-1987

KUBACH, H. E., Arquitectura Românica, Madrid, Aguilar, 1977.

LASKO, P., Arte Sacro. 800-1200, Madrid, Cátedra, 1999.

RODRIGUES, J., “O mundo românico”, in História da Arte Portuguesa, vol. I, dir. P. Pereira, Lisboa, Círculo de Leitores, 1995.

TOMAN, R. (ed), O Românico. Arquitectura. Escultura. Pintura, Colónia, Könemann, 2000.

TORVISO, B., El prerrománico en Europa, Madrid, 1990.