Monastic and Conventual Art in the Modern Era in Portugal
Code
722170107
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
História da Arte
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
Carlos Alberto Moura
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) To define and to organize the knowledge on the most recent historical points of view about the art of religious orders.
b) To start a monographic (or a transversal) research project on art and architecture of the Portuguese monastic and conventual world of the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.
c) To integrate this project and its results in the broad problems of the History of Art , namely in this field during the Baroque period.
Prerequisites
Não
Subject matter
The Religious Orders, the Roman Catholic Church and the art of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
The convents and monastic complexes in Portugal and its architecture between Plain Architecture and Baroque.
The devotional sculpture and the models of the Baroque serial images. Principles and technical processes.
The devotional painting and its narrative cycles. The Baroque visionariness and the illusionism in the convents and monasteries.
The modalities of decorative arts and their integration in the religious spaces of the Portuguese Baroque and Rococo.
Bibliography
Borges, N.C., Arte monástica em Lorvão. Sombras e realidade. Das origens a 1737, Lisboa, 2002
Fróis, V. (coord.), Conversas à volta dos conventos, Évora, 2002
Fundação C. Gulbenkian Fund. P. Barrié de la Maza, Arte de Cister em Portugal e Galiza, Lisboa, 1998
Moura, C. (coord), O limiar do Barroco, Lisboa, 1986
Pereira, J.F., Arquitectura e escultura de Mafra. A retórica da perfeição, Lisboa, 1994
Teaching method
Lectures and discussion on some case studies. Support to the students research and some visits to important monastic nuclei.
Evaluation method
An extensive report of the work in progress (50%) and two little essays (50%).