Art and Humanism

Year
0
Academic year
2019-2020
Code
01012572
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. Theoretical contents will be illustrated with images that serve as a basis for reflection and discussion, leading students to developing critical thinking skills. Whenever possible, study visits to museums, previously prepared by students, will serve as a complement to classes.

Learning Outcomes

Students should

Understand the genesis, development and decoding of humanist culture around the artistic practices of the Renaissance period;

Be able to make a critical analysis of the historiographical concepts involved;

Understand the arts in the longue durée and their relationship with political, economic and cultural movements;

Understand the equilibria present in the cultural dynamics throughout the 15th and 16th centuries in Portugal and "Western civilization" and acquire knowledge about the plasticity resulting from the practice of architecture, painting or sculpture.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

I. Humanist culture.

1. The political and economic reshaping of of “medieval” Europe.

2. Secular power and religious orders.

3. Universities. The role of intelectuals and the construction of knowledge.

4. Reformation movements.

 

II. Anthropocentric culture.

1. Knowledge and artistic practices.

a) Treatises, drawing and engraving. The “internationalization” of the arts and artists’ mobility.

b) The desire for “perfect forms”.

2. The social status of the artist.

3. Patronage practices. The portrait and the deconstruction of an artistic culture of anonymity.

 

III. The culture of classicism.

1. From the “early Renaissance” to the values of Classicism.

a) From Lombard ornament to classical forms in architecture, sculpture and painting.

 

IV. Humanism and the Renaissance in Portugal.

1. The Portuguese 15th century and the investment in Renaissance values.

2. The case of the Manueline period.

3. The reign of King João III and the connection with Renaissance Europe.

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria de Lurdes dos Anjos Craveiro

Assessment Methods

Continuous evaluation
Research work: 30.0%
Frequency: 70.0%

Final evaluation
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

AAVV,História da Arte Portuguesa, vols. I-II, Lisboa, C.L.,1995
AAVV, No Tempo das Feitorias. A Arte Portuguesa na Época dos Descobrimentos, 2 vols., Lisboa,1992
AAVV,Teoria da Arquitectura. Do Renascimento aos nossos dias, Koln,2003
Alberti,L.B.,Da Arte Edificatória, Lisboa,2011
Chastel,André, Arte y humanismo en Florencia en tiempos de Lorenzo el Magnífico, Madrid,1991
Choay,Françoise, La règle et le modèle. Sur la théorie de l'architecture et de l'urbanisme, Paris,1980
Craveiro,M.Lurdes, A Arquitectura “ao Romano”, Col. Arte P. da Pré-História ao séc. XX, nº 9,2009
Craveiro,M.de Lurdes, O Mosteiro de Santa Cruz de Coimbra, Coimbra, DRCC,2011
Kubler,G.,A Arquitectura Portuguesa Chã. Entre as Especiarias e os Diamantes. 1521-1706, Lisboa,1988
Profumo, L.Müller, El ornamento icónico y la arquitectura 1400-1600, Madrid,1985
Sebastián, S.,Arte y Humanismo, Madrid,1981
Wittkower, R.,Los fundamentos de la arquitectura en la edad del humanismo,Madrid,1995