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Profanne Art of the Middle Ages

Class at Faculty of Arts |
ADU500606

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Povinná literatura:

Michal Dragoun – Jindřich Marek – Kamil Boldan – Milada Studničková, Knižní kultura českého středověku, Praha 2020 příslušné statě Josefa krásy pro Dějiny českého výtvarného umění I/1-2, Praha 1984, 405–439, 596–612

Jeffrey Hamburger – Joshua O’Driscoll, Imperial Splendor. The Art of the Book in the Holy Roman Empire, 800–1500, New York 2021

Josef Krása, Knižní malířství, in: Jaromír Homolka – Josef Krása – Václav Mencl et al., Pozdně gotické umění v Čechách, Praha 1978, s. 390–457  

Doporučená literatura:

Kamil Boldan (ed.), Jenský Kodex, Praha 2009

Kamil Boldan, Počátek českého knihtisku, Praha 2018

Kamil Boldan – Renata Modráková – Milada Studničková – Jindřich Marek, Nebeský žebřík. Pozdně středověké modlitební knihy ze sbírek Národní knihovny ČR, Praha 2019

Petr Čornej – Michal Dragoun – Milada Homolková et al., Tabule staré a nové barvy Mikuláše z Drážďan ve staročeském překladu, Praha 2016

Josef Krása, Rukopisy Václava IV., Praha 1971

Josef Krása, České iluminované rukopisy 13.–16. století, ed. Karel Stejskal, Praha 1990

Viktor Kubík, Typologie iniciál a základy systému výzdoby středověkých rukopisů II. Gotické rukopisy a počátky renesanční iluminace (Studie k umělecko historické terminologii středověké knižní malby 4), Studie o rukopisech XLIII, 2013, s. 29–205

Viktor Kubík, Bible táborského hejtmana Filipa z Padeřova a knižní malba husitské doby, Praha 2018

Ema Součková, Výzdoba hudebních rukopisů Jana Táborského z Klokotské Hory, Praha 2019

Karel Stejskal – Petr Voit, Iluminované rukopisy doby husitské, Praha 1991

Milada Studničková – Maria Theisen (edd.), Art in the Unsettled Time. Bohemian Book Illumination before Guttenberg (c. 1375–1450), Praha 2018  

Annotation

The aim of this series of lectures is to present various forms and themes of medieval secular art and the methodological issues related to them. We will focus on works of art produced in the period 1150-1550, with particular emphasis on those produced in Bohemia and Central Europe. At the same time, however, they will be viewed primarily within a broader context in relation to works preserved abroad. In terms of artistic types, attention will be paid in particular to wall paintings, various works of artistic craftsmanship (textiles, furniture, jewellery, ceramics) and late medieval graphics. However, manuscripts, the oldest prints and several rarely preserved panel paintings from the late Middle Ages will not be left out. The thematic orientation of the course is mainly iconographic, but the formal issues of artworks will not be left aside either; we will be interested in the methods of transmission and modification of themes and compositions, which can be captured mainly thanks to contemporary graphics.

1) What is secular art? Why should we be interested in it? Definitions and structures

2) From Sicily to the North - the origins and development of medieval secular art

3) The power of women - Aristotle, Samson and many others

4) Camelot, Baghdad and Troy - the great heroes of the Middle Ages

5) Tortured Hearts - the cult of love and the epithalamic dimension of artistic craft

6) The world upside down - carnivals and their logic

7) Old and young - images of uneven couples and old women

8) Medieval obscenities and their function

9) The green chambers - art historical phenomenon or a type?

10) Noble pleasures and their allegorization

11) Crooks and scoundrels - the iconography of peasants, high and low in the Middle Ages

12) Reflection on antiquity - from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance