Art in Early Modern Europe I

Pre-requisites: Students are required to attend classes and seminars, to pass a midterm exam “European Art of Renaissance and Mannerism” and to deliver oral presentation or essay on selected topic of baroque Art.

Course objectives: Key figures, concepts and phenomena of European visual culture during 15th, 16th and 17th centuries.

Course description: The first semester will be dedicated to the art of 15th and 16th centuries, while the art of 17th century will be explored during the second semester. The goal of the lecture classes will be to acquaint students with the the origins and development of visual culture of Renaissance, Mannerism and Baroque. During the first semester seminars will be focused on the key themes and concepts of Renaissance and Mannerism, with the special emphasis on students’ ability to examine artwork in its own theoretical, social and cultural context. During the second semester students have presentations on various topics of baroque visual culture. Attendance is mandatory. Students’ active participation is necessary, especially during seminars and discussions.

Learning Outcomes: To develop the ability of understanding main concepts of European visual culture during 15th, 16th and 17th centuries. To present a historical understanding of these objects in their cultural context, as well as through the impact they had on contemporary world.

Literature/Reading:

• E. Panofski, Umetnost i značenje: Ikonološke studije, Beograd 1975
• A. Blunt, Umetnička teorija u Italiji 1450-1600, Beograd
• S. J. Freedberg, Painting in Italy 1500 to 1600, Harmondsworth 1971
• R. Wittkower, Art and Architecture in Italy 1600 to 1750, Harmondsworth 1958
• E. Garin, Italijanski humanizam (1965), Novi Sad 1988
• E. Garin, Čovek renesanse, Beograd 2005
• S. Brajović, Renesansno sopstvo i portret, Beograd 2009
• M. Flašar, O klasičnim studijama, Zbornik Matice srpske za klasične studije 1, Novi Sad, 1988
• R. W. Lee, Ut Pictura Poesis: The Humanistic theory of painting, New York 1967
• E. Panofsky, Tomb sculpture, London 1992
• J. Pope-Hennessy, The Portrait in the Renaissance, London 1966
• E. Panofsky, Perspective as Symbolic Form, 1920
• F. Jejts, Hermetička filozofija i elizabetansko doba, Beograd 1999
• E. Panofski, Idea. Prilog istoriji pojma starije teorije umetnosti, Bogovađa 1997
• J. Shearman, Mannerism, Harmondsworth, 1967
• J. Pope-Hennessy, The Portrait in the Renaissance, Princeton 1979
• B. Haak, The Golden Age: Duch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, London 1984
• Đ. Kareri, Likovi baroka, Beograd 2004