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2024 Fall

PRAGUE ART AND ARCHITECTURE - ART131/1 Fall 2024


Course
Marek Cerveny
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Lessons

Here is the course outline:

1. Introduction. Chronology

Sep 3, Classroom, Lesser Town

Introduction, syllabus, chronology

2. Prehistory of Prague

Sep 10, Prague, Roztoky

Possible excursion to ARCHEVITA Short presentation.

3. Romanesque and Gothic Prague

Sep 17, Prague Castle

Excursion to Prague Castle - examples of medieval architecture - Basilica of St. George, Cathedral of St. Vitus, Wladislas Hall. Short presentation

4. Gothic Art, Devotional Art and the Bohemian Reformation + Introduction to Christian iconography

Sep 24, Old Town

Excursion to St. Agnes Convent (National Gallery) and Old Town Short presentation.

5. Renaissance Prague; 1526-1620

Oct 1, Prague Castle and Lesser Town

Excursion Prague Castle Gardens and Wallenstein Garden. Short presentation. Museum Report 1 due!

6. Baroque art and architecture I(1611 - 1790)

Oct 8, Hradčany, Lesser Town

Excursion to Strahov Monastery, Vrtba Garden, Our Lady Victorious, Charles Bridge Short presentation.

7. Baroque art and architecture II(1620 - 1780)

Oct 15

Excursion to Troja Chateau Short presentation.

8. Introduction to modern iconography

Oct 22, New Town

Excursion to New Town Museum Report 2 due

9. Historicism: Classicism, Romanticism and the Czech National Revival (1780 - 1900)

Nov 5, Vyšehrad, New Town

Excursion to Vyšehrad Castle, examples of Eclectic architecture, National Revial Short presentation.

10. Modernism 1: Early 20th-century architecture, Art nouveau, Cubism and Functionalism (1900 - 1948)

Nov 12, New Town

Excursion: architectural sites around the New Town, Municipal house Short presentation.

11. Modernism 2: Early 20th century art: František Kupka and Czech Avant-garde, (1900 - 1948)

Nov 19

Excursion to National Gallery - Veletržni Palace Short presentation.

12. Socialist Era (1948-1989)

Nov 26, New Town

Excursion to War Memorial and sites connected to the communist era and Velvet Revolution. Short presentations.

13. Class Excursion

Dec 3

Olšany

14. Final session

Dec 10, Classroom

Final test and presentations. Final Report due.

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