Syllabus
Lectures will be devoted to the following topics:
1. The latest methods of surveying Dutch paintings
2. Hieronymus Bosch
3. Painting of the late 15th and early 16th centuries in the northern Netherlands (Geertgen tot Sint Jans, Master of Tiburtin Sibylla, Master of the Well of Life)
4. Painting in Antwerp in the 1st quarter of the 16th century: production for the free market (especially commorative works)
5. Jan Gossart zv. Mabuse
6. Maerten van Heemskerck and romantics
7. Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
8. Development of genre painting (especially depictions of the life of peasants and marginal social strata)
9. Reception of Leonardo da Vinci in the works of Quinten Massys, Jan Sanders van Hemessen <span id="tgtAlignment_105" class="ts-alignment-element" data-is-
Annotation
The cycle of the lectures is focused on knowledge and interpretation of Netherlandish art. The aim of the course is to present artistic production of one of the most economically prosperous areas of Europe. The course underlines relationships of the development of art to other parts of Europe, especially to the Lands of the Czech Crown.
The methodologically the course follows the lectures of the winter semester. In addition to lectures devoted to individual masters and schools, attention will be paid to the development of individual genres - especially landscape painting and still life painting, which developed in connection with contemporary interests in the knowledge of the outside world (macrocosm and microcosm). Landscape painting and still life painting were codified mainly during the second half of the 16th century.
In accordance with the aim of the course, the lectures focuse mainly on iconographic interpretation of the most important works of the 16th century; special attention will be paid to sociological and economic conditions modifying the painter's production. Due to technological analyzes and their interdisciplinary interpretation (see publications by Maryan Ainsworth, Jochen Sander and Lorne Campbell), fundamental discoveries in the field of Netherlandish painting have been made, so the cycle aims to give an overview of the latest methods of research.