Art in the Age of the Cathedrals

Year
0
Academic year
2018-2019
Code
01012487
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

Not applicable.

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

This curricular unit aims at structuring the recognition and understanding of the art developed during the period commonly known as Gothic, between the 12th and 16th centuries. The comprehensive approach to the various influences and artistic expressions that gave form to the gothic world will focus on the specificities of Portuguese artistic reality in an inclusive way, without making it a consequence, a residue or a complement to other European achievements. Thus, it will allow students to identify and understand the main characteristics of gothic art: its geographical, historical, and cultural contexts; its works and authors of reference.  By encouraging a critical approach to the subjects in study, based on accurate and updated bibliography, this curricular unit also aims at stimulating in students the will and ability to question the very historiographical proposals that lie beneath the concepts of medieval and gothic art. 

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

 I. Art in the Age of the Cathedrals

    1. problematization: medieval art and medievalism

    2. contextualization: economy, politics, and society, culture, science and thought

    3. characterization: artistic fields, concepts, terminology

 

II. Gothic Humanism(s)

    1. the opus francigenum: its formulation, experimentation and dissemination

    2. the life of a cathedral: projection, construction, activation

    3. readings of the Gothic image between allegory and ontology

    4. aesthetic differences in rethinking art: Cluny and Cîteaux

    5. the efficacy of the mendicant orders and the persuasive power of gothic art

    6. the building of urbanity and the secularization of artistic production

    7. geographical variations and international movements

    8. men, nature and imaginary

 

III. The Renaissance of the Cathedrals: romantism and neomedievalism

    1. the reinvention of gothic art: historiography, restoration, revivalism.

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

ALMEIDA, Carlos Alberto Ferreira de, BARROCA, Mário Jorge, História da Arte em Portugal: o Gótico, Lisboa, Presença, 2001.

 

CAMILLE, Michael, Gothic art: glorious visions, New York, Abrams, 1996.

 

COLOMBIER, Pierre du, Les chantiers des cathédrales : ouvriers, architectes, sculpteurs, Paris, Picard, 1992.

 

DUBY, Georges, O Tempo das Catedrais:a arte e a sociedade (980-1420), Lisboa, Estampa

 

ECO, Umberto, Arte e Beleza na Estética Medieval, Lisboa, Presença, 1989.

 

ERLANDE-BRANDENBURG, Alain, La Révolution Gothique, Paris, Picard, 2012.

 

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

 

PEREIRA, PAULO, A arquitectura Gótica, Arte Portuguesa dir. Dalila Rodrigues, vol.3,Porto, FUBU, 2009.

 

PASTOUREAU, Michel, Une histoire symbolique du Moyen Âge occidental, Paris, Éditions du Seuil, 2004.

 

RECHT, Roland, Le croire et le voir : l’art des cathédrales, XIIe-XVe siècle, Paris, Gallimard, 1999.