Syllabus
* Lectures will be devoted to the following topics: Historical introduction: development in the Low Countries (especially in relation to the situation in the Lands of the Czech Crown). Basic terminology.
Methodological approaches Prologue: Franco-Flemish book illumination of the second half of the 14th century. Limbourgh brothers Painting and sculpture around 1400 in today's Burgundy, the Netherlands and Belgium Jan and Hubert van Eyck Robert Campin Petrus Christus and Dirck Bouts Rogier van der Weyden Reflection of the 1st generation Netherlandish masters in Bohemia and Moravia Hugo van der Goes Hans Memling and painting in Bruges Painting of the late 15th and early 16th centuries in northern Low Countries (Geertgen tot Sint Jans, Master of the Tiburtine Sibyl, Master of the Well of Life) Hieronymus Bosch and possibilities of interpretation of his work
Annotation
The cycle of the lectures is focused on knowladge and interpretation of Netherlandish art of the 15th and 16th centuries. The aim of the course is to present the art production in one of economically best prospering areas of the late medieval Europe, which at the time of its greatest expansion included the territories in today's northern France,
Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. The course underlines relationships of the development of art to other parts of Europe, especially to the Lands of the Czech Crown. The cycle is based primarily on the iconological method of Erwin Panofsky. In many respects, Panofsky's legacy was supplemented or corrected by further research, as formulated by Max J. Friedländer in the context of the discussed issue. Recent approaches focuses mainly on anthropology of the image or on works mapping the sociological and economic background of artistic production in the Low Countries (Lorne Campbell). Due to technological analyzes and their interdisciplinary interpretation (Maryan W. Ainsworth or Jochen Sander), fundamental discoveries concerning Netherlandish painting have been made, so the aims of the course is to give an overview of the latest methods of exploring
Netherlandish paintings.