Selected topics in Art of the Early and High Middle Ages in Western Europe II: Medieval Art

The course is intended to deepen the knowledge on medieval art in Western Europe and explores the themes that cannot be directly addressed and discussed in depth at B.A. level. The overall contents of the course change and are announced before the beginning of the academic year. The topics may include (but are not limited to):

- examination of a specific group of monuments closely linked by typology, style, iconography, etc. (e.g. insular manuscript illumination, art in Ravenna);

- thorough study of a specific theme (e.g. reception of the Antiquity in the Middle Ages);

- an important personality or a group of persons, who exerted fundamental influence on the artistic developments of their time and place (e.g. the role and significance of bishops as patrons of art);

- literary sources for medieval art;

- examination of methods, required by specific kinds of monuments (e.g. illuminated manuscripts); etc.

Topics are discussed either in separate chapters or in extensive thematic sections.

• Johann Konrad Eberlein, Christine Jakobi-Mirwald, Grundlagen der mittelalterlichen Kunst. Eine Quellenkunde, Berlin 1986. COBISS.SI-ID - 6652770

• Erwin Panofsky, Renaissance and Renasences in Western Art, London 1956. COBISS.SI-ID - 23537250

• Christopher de Hamel, A History of Illuminated Manuscripts, London 2010. COBISS.SI-ID - 45785186

• Hans Belting, Bild und Kult. Eine Geschichte des Bildes vor dem Zeitalter der Kunst, München 1991. COBISS.SI-ID - 3838223

• Moshe Barasch, The Language of Art. Studies in Interpretation, London – New York 1997. COBISS.SI-ID - 14385506

• Jacques Le Goff, The medieval imagination, Chicago 1992. COBISS.SI-ID - 14385762

• David Freedberg, The Power of Images. Studies in the History and Theory of Response, Chicago 1991 COBISS.SI-ID - 1069709

• Umberto Eco, Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages, New Haven – London 2002. COBISS.SI-ID - 20976226

Required readings depend on the chosen course topic. The list is announced before the beginning of the academic year.