Syllabus
The origins of art collecting; collecting in antiquity; medieval monastic treasuries andlibraries; the formation of art collections in the Renaissance; the emergence and development of spaces for artcollections; great collectors of the 17th century; great collectors in Bohemia in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Annotation
The lectures will present both the history of European art collecting with examples of important collections, and the basic methods of invasive and non-invasive research of hanging paintings.They will focus on the basic principles of connoisseurship of sculpture, painting, drawing and printmaking. They will focus on their material and technique of execution, evaluate their possible adjustment, instruct on the basics of chemical-technological and restoration research, explain the fundamentals of cultural and historical research, and complete the procedures for stylistic analysis and determining the function of a work of art.
Important will be the specific expert work with selected works of art on which the described methods will be demonstrated. It will introduce the forms of trade in works of art in the historical context as well as in the present, such as commercial galleries, auctions, art fairs, etc.