Course Details

History of the Fine Arts

Academic Year 2023/24

AG026 course is part of 1 study plan

B-P-C-APS (N) / APS Winter Semester 4th year

Rough survey of the history of arts from the pre-historic age to the late 20th century. The subject is to explain the common ideological background of the arts disciplines and the architecture, their mutual influence and completion.

Course Guarantor

Institute

Objective

Knowledge of the history of the Fine Arts, the pre-historic arts, Egypt and Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome, the Romanesque arts, the Gothic arts, the Renaissance, the Baroque in the foreign countries, the Baroque in the Czech lands, the 19th-century arts, the Modern Arts, the contemporary tendencies.

Knowledge

Student will manage the goal of the subject, i.e. knowledge of the history of the Fine Arts, the pre-historic arts, Egypt and Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome, the Romanesque arts, the Gothic arts, the Renaissance, the Baroque in the foreign countries, the Baroque in the Czech lands, the 19th-century arts, the Modern Arts, the contemporary tendencies.

Syllabus

1. Pre-historic arts, Egypt, Mesopotamia
2. Arts of the Ancient Greece and Rome
3. Romanesque arts in the Western Europe and the Czech lands
4. Gothic arts of France, Germany and Italy
5. Gothic arts of the Czech lands
6. Renaissance in Italy, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raffael
7. Renaissance north of the Alps, Prague in the time of King Rudolf
8. Baroque in Italy and the Western Europe
9. Baroque in Bohemia and Moravia
10. 19th-century European arts, new trends in the late 19th -century French arts
11. Modern arts at the beginning of 20th century
12. Czech modern arts until the middle of 20th century
13. Tendencies of the world´s arts after 1945

Prerequisites

The subject applies the knowledge acquired in the subjects aimed at the history of architecture, the composition of architecture and aesthetics, and own experience of the arts disciplines gained in the fine arts subjects.

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

2 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

examination

Specification of controlled instruction, the form of instruction, and the form of compensation of the absences

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

1. Pre-historic arts, Egypt, Mesopotamia 2. Arts of the Ancient Greece and Rome 3. Romanesque arts in the Western Europe and the Czech lands 4. Gothic arts of France, Germany and Italy 5. Gothic arts of the Czech lands 6. Renaissance in Italy, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raffael 7. Renaissance north of the Alps, Prague in the time of King Rudolf 8. Baroque in Italy and the Western Europe 9. Baroque in Bohemia and Moravia 10. 19th-century European arts, new trends in the late 19th -century French arts 11. Modern arts at the beginning of 20th century 12. Czech modern arts until the middle of 20th century 13. Tendencies of the world´s arts after 1945