Art History (Ancient Art)
Code
2685
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Department
Departamento de Conservação e Restauro
Credits
6.0
Teacher in charge
Catarina Paula Oliveira de Mattos Villamariz, Maria João Seixas de Melo
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Português
Objectives
The aim of the lectures is to get the students acquainted with the artistic periods included in the program, so that they can understand the historical-artistic conjuncture and recognize the main characteristics of each period in a perspective of crossing knowledge between History of Art and Conservation and Restoration.
It is also important for the students to acquire a special sensibility to art in general, since all of their future work will be to preserve that same art.
Subject matter
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1. Introduction 1/i) History of the Art: what is it? How to understand it? How to analyze a work of art? 2) The Greek Civilization 2/i) The Civilizations of the Aegean Sea: Cycladic art; Minoan art; Mycenaean art. 2/ii) The Greek Culture: civilization and art; Urbanism and Architecture - case-study: The Acropolis 2/iii) Sculpture: from the archaic period to Hellenism 2/iv) Ceramic - case-study: Greek amphora 3) Romant World 3/i) The Beginning: Etruscan art 3/ii) Roman art: the art of the society; Urbanism and Urban Architecture 3/iii) Sculpture of Urban Dimension The Ara Pacis - case-study 3/iv) Portrait in the Republican and Imperial periods 3/v) Painting and Mosaic Case-Study: Villa dei Misteri 3./vi) Roman Lusitania: Architecture, Sculpture and Mosaic - Case-study: Triunfo Indiano de baco, Torre de Palma / Mnarq 4. Transition to Paleo-Christian art 4/i) Christian religion and a new undestandment of Art; specificities of paleo-Christian art in the Iberian peninsula - Case-Study: Galla Placidia''s mausoleum |
Bibliography
ALTET, Xavier, “The Roman World”, Sculpture, vol. I, Cambridge, Taschen, 1996
BELLIDO, Antonio G. y, Arte Romano, Madrid, 1979
BRUNEAU, Philippe, “Greek Art”, Sculpture, vol. I, Cambridge, Taschen, 1996
JANSON, H., A Nova História da Arte, Lisboa, FCG, 2010
JENKINS, Ian, Greek Architecture and its Sculpture in the British Museum, London, The British Museum Press, 2006
LOWDEN, John, Early Christian & Byzantine Art, London, Phaidon, 1997
PEREIRA, Paulo, Arte Portuguesa. História Essencial, Lisboa, Temas e Debates, 2011
SCHNAPP, Alain, Préhistoire et Antiquité, Paris, Flammarion, 1997
The Color Of Life, Polychromy in Sculpture from Antiquity to the Present, ed.by R. Panzanelli, Los Angeles, The J. P. Getty Museum, 2008
The Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture, ed.by G. Campbell, Oxford University Press, 2007
Teaching method
Introduction to each of the subjects included in the program, through an historical-artistic contextualization of the artistic periods lectured. Development of themes through an approach that includes the analysis of the main artistic currents of each period, such as architecture, sculpture, painting or mosaic, as well as case-studies. Exemplification of specific cases through their visualization by using images during the lectures in order to illustrate the speech. Images give a better perception of the subject and also a better understanding of the work of art. Direct contact with the work of art is promoted whenever possible. Dialog with the students is encouraged, so that they can present any doubts and participate actively in the analysis of the works of art
Evaluation method
- 2 Tests - compulsory
- 1 group project - compulsory