Art in the Construction of Medieval Europe
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2024-2025
01012459
Área Científica do Menor
Portuguese
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
6.0
Elective
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)
NoSyllabus
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.
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.