Art and Romanticism

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

The classes will be both theoretical and practical. The presentation of each artistic movement will be contextualized and accompanied by image analysis.

Learning Outcomes

1. To recognize and characterize Neoclassicism and Romanticism, relating them to the historical context in which they were produced;

2. To identify authors and reference works in the artistic production of the late 18^th century and 19^th century;

3.  To relate the Portuguese artistic reality with the European, comprising the mechanisms of influence and reasons responsible for some of its particularities;

4. To analyze the artistic object in its specificity, understanding it as "cultural document" of its time.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Neoclassicism

1.1. Neoclassicism vs Romanticism or the Romantic nature of Neoclassicism

1.2. Chronology, geography, patronage, destinataries and artist's mission

1.3. Architecture: aesthetic models, new typologies and utopias

1.4. Painting: themes, techniques and pedagogy

1.5. Sculpture: physical beauty and moral virtue

2. Romanticism

2.1. A "new" civilization: the triumph of individualism

2.2. The concepts of beauty and inspiration and evasion mechanisms

2.3. European and Portuguese Romantic architecture: eclecticism and demand of a national character

2.4. Romantic painting: a multiple reality

2.5. Romanticism and Naturalism in Portuguese painting. 

Head Lecturer(s)

Joana Rita da Costa Brites

Assessment Methods

Continuous evaluation
Mini Tests: 100.0%

Final evaluation
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

ARGAN, Giulio Carlo, Arte moderna: do Iluminismo aos movimentos contemporâneos, São Paulo, Companhia das Letras, 1998.

Arte portuguesa do século XIX, Lisboa, IPPC, 1988, [Catálogo].

Arte Portuguesa, 1850-1950, Lisboa, IPM/ Museu do Chiado, 1994.

BERGDOLL, Barry, European architecture: 1750-1890, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000.

HONOUR, Hugh, El romanticismo, Madrid, Alianza, 1981.

FRANÇA, José-Augusto, A arte em Portugal no século XIX, Lisboa, Bertrand, 1981 [ed. revista e ampliada].

IRWIN, David, Neoclassicism, London, Phaidon, 1997.

LAPA, Pedro e SILVEIRA, Maria de Aires (coord.), Arte portuguesa do século XIX (1850-1910), MNAC – Museu do Chiado e Leya, 2010.

PEREIRA, Paulo (dir. de), História da arte em Portugal, vol. III, Lisboa, Círculo de Leitores, 1997.

RODRIGUES, Dalila (coord.), Arte portuguesa. Da pré-história ao século XX, Fabu, 2009.

TOMAN, Rolf (ed.), Neoclassicism and Romanticism: architecture, sculpture, painting, drawings, 1750-1848, Cologne, Könemann, 2000.