Seminário de Especialidade em História da Arte Medieval (not translated)
Code
73206103
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
História da Arte
Credits
10
Weekly hours
2
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
To recognize the relevance of Romanesque art in the cultural (artistic, philosophical, religious), political, economical and social context of the 11th to 13th centuries;
To understand the mental context of Romanesque symbolism, closely entwined to the feudal society of the 3 Orders, to the cult of the Saints and of relics;
To approach, in a critical and comprehensive way, the Portuguese Romanesque and Early Gothic , from the trans-Pyrenean models to its own singularities;
To critically assay the subject’s essential bibliography, including some of the most recent scientific contributions, at a national and international level;
To approach some of the most recent contributions in history of art, including subjects as architectural burial structures, shaping of space, light and colour.
Prerequisites
n.a.
Subject matter
1 – The rural/ closed world: the 3 orders and the feudality imagined;
2 – Monasticism and contemplative theology:
3 – Pilgrimage routes and Romanesque art:
4 – Romanesque and Early Gothic art, the cult of the dead and of the Saints:
4.1 – The Saints as living beings: the cult of the relics and the spaces devoted to memory and example;
4.2 – From the city of the dead to the worship spaces: galilees, pantheons and other privileged burial structures;
5 – Romanesque and Early Gothic art in Portugal:
5.1 - Architecture: case studies and the questions of space, light and colour;
5.2 – Ornamental, figurative and symbolic sculpture and its rapport to liturgy and architecture;
5.3 – A brief overview of miniature painting and goldsmithing.
Bibliography
- ALMEIDA, C.A.F., Hist. Arte em Portugal. 1 O Românico, Lisboa: Presença, 2001
- DAVY, Marie-Madeleine, Initiation a la symbolique romane (XIIe siècle), Paris: Flammarion, 1977
- GRAF, Gerhard, Portugal Roman, Yonne: Zodiaque (2 vols), 1986-87
- MONTEIRO, Manuel, Dispersos, Braga: ASPA, 1980
- REAL, Manuel, O Românico Condal em S. Pedro de Rates e as transformações beneditinas do séc. XII, Póvoa de Varzim: CMPV, 1982
- REAL, Manuel, A Igreja de S. Pedro de Ferreira. Um invulgar exemplo de convergência artística, Paços de Ferreira: CMPF, 1986
- RODRIGUES, Jorge, O Mundo Românico, Lisboa: Círculo de Leitores, 2007
- RODRIGUES, Jorge, “Os hospitalários, o prior Álvaro Gonçalves Pereira e a igreja-panteão da Flor da Rosa”, in Castelos das Ordens Militares, Lisboa: DGPC, vol. II, 2013, pp. 331-370
- RODRIGUES, Jorge, Panteões, estruturas funerárias e espaços religiosos associados da Rota do Românico (sécs. XII-XIV), Lousada: Centro de Estudos do Românico e do Território
Teaching method
Theoretical-practical classes including presentation of photographic slides, maps, plans, elevations, diagrams and other graphic materials related to the artistic subject presented.
Evaluation method