Iconography

Year
0
Academic year
2019-2020
Code
01012506
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 sessions. The presentation of theoretical contents will be accompanied by the analysis of images and, occasionally, texts that must be problematized by students. Whenever possible, practical sessions will consist in visits to local museums, monuments and particular works of art.

Learning Outcomes

To grant the theoretical and practical skills necessary to the understanding, critical approach and application of the iconographic method, taking in account its conceptual length and its extension to iconology.

Through the recognition of the analytic and interpretive potential, and also of the limitations and problems of iconography applied to Art History, students shall be able to identify, contextualize and interpret images and spaces, surpassing the limits of an immediate formal analysis.

Through the acquirement of iconographic vocabulary, necessary to decode images in a precise context, students will have the fundamental tools to the study of thematic contents and possible intentionality, attributive and symbolic expressions, narrative dynamics, symbolic thought and visual projection of different period of occidental art.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Iconography and Art History

    1.1. Iconography before itself: ascendancy 

    1.2. Aby Warburg and Erwin Panofsky: iconography and iconology

    1.3. Ernst Gombrich and the “linguistics of the image”    

    1.4. From symbol to sign: sematology and semiotics

    1.5. New iconographic approaches: potencials and limits

 

2. Main Concepts

    2.1. Expression and content

    2.2. Theme, motif, attribute

    2.3. Temporality and signification

    2.4. Alegoric and symbolic form

 

3. Iconographic themes:

    3.1. Iconography and Mythologies

    3.2. Iconography, Theology, Hagiography

    3.3. Iconophily and Iconoclasty

    3.4. Iconography, Symbol, Alegory

    3.5. Space Iconography

    3.6. Material Iconography

    3.7. Iconography of Performing Arts

 

4. Iconological analysis: case studies

    4.1. Individual artwork analysis

    4.2. Theme analysis

    4.3. Transversal analysis of motives

    4.4. Transversal analysis of themes

Head Lecturer(s)

Joana Filipa da Fonseca Antunes

Assessment Methods

Final evaluation
Exam: 100.0%

Continuous evaluation
Research work: 50.0%
Frequency: 50.0%

Bibliography

BOLVIG, Axel, LINDLEY, Phillip, History and Images: Towards a New Iconology, Turnhout, Brepols, 2003.

 

CHEVALIER, Jean e GHEERBRANT, Alain, Dicionário dos símbolos, Teorema, Lisboa, 1994.

 

GARCÍA MAHÍQUES, Rafael, Iconografía e Iconologia, 2 vols, Madrid, Ediciones Encuentro, 2008-2009.

 

GERVEREAU, Laurent, Ver, compreender, analisar as imagens, Edições 70, Lisboa, 2007.

 

HECK, Thomas, Picturing Performance: The Iconography of the Performing Arts in Concept and Practice, New York, University of Rochester Press, 1999.

 

PANOFSKY, Erwin, A perspectiva como forma simbólica, Lisboa, Edições 70, 1993.

 

PANOFSKY, Erwin, Estudos de iconologia: temas humanísticos na arte do Renascimento, Estampa, Lisboa, 1995.

 

RIEBER, Audrey, Art, Histoire et Signification. Un essai d’épistémologie d’histoire de l'art, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2012.

 

RÉAU, Louis, Iconographie de l’art chrétien, 5 vols., Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 1955-1959.