Renaissance Art History
Code
711061017
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
História da Arte
Credits
6
Teacher in charge
Carlos Alberto Moura
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) To know the fundaments of the Italian and European Renaissance art in the fifteenth and sixteenth-centuries.
b) To know the problems and the most recent points of view on this period of art history.
c) To contact and explore some of the Italian and European Renaissance art which can be seen in Lisbon at the National Museum of Ancient Art and the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum.
Prerequisites
None
Subject matter
1. The concept of Renaissance and the History of Art. The Humanism and the rebirth of Classical Antiquity.
2. The vision of Giotto and his followers in Central Italy during the fourteenth-century.
3. The definition of the linear perspective and the polemics against the International Gothic Style in Florence. The art of Brunelleschi, Masaccio and Donatello.
4. The disposition of the new Quattrocento culture and its centers of creativeness. The range of Alberti and Piero della Francesca art.
5. The Flemish fifteenth-century painting and the Northern Renaissance. The Realism and Symbolism from Van Eyck to Hugo van der Goes.
6. The patronage and the great achievements in the period of Lawrence the Magnificent. The cult of the antique and the Neoplatonism in Florence.
7. The Renaissance capitals in the Quattrocento Northern Italy: Mantua, Ferrara and Venice. Milan and Leonardo da Vinci.
8. The High Renaissance in Rome. Bramante, Raphael, Michelangelo and the Sangallo works.
9. The High Renaissance in Venice. The poetics of Giorgione and the painting of Titian. Correggio in Parma.
10. The Mannerism in Florence and Rome. The court patronage and the Counter- Reformation art.
11. The Mannerism in Venice. Palladio, Veronese and Tintoretto.
12. The European diversity in the sixteenth-century art and the confrontation with the Italian models.
Bibliography
ARGAN, G. Carlo, Storia dellarte Italiana, Florença, Sansoni, 1975, Vols. II e II
CHASTEL, André, Lart Italien, Paris, Flammarion, 1989
MARÍAS, Fernando, El siglo XVI. Gótico y Renascimiento, Madrid, Sílex, 1992
PANOFSKY, Erwin, Renascimento e renascimentos na arte ocidental, Lisboa, Presença, 1980
WELCH, Evelyn, Art in Renaissance Italy, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000
Teaching method
Lectures, commentaries and discussions on the art works and the historical process of Renaissance, using a powerpoint, and during the visits to the museums.
Evaluation method
A test on the subjects lectured and discussed (50%) and an essay (50%).