History of Sculpture in the Middle Ages
Objectives
-Identify and analyse the sculptural production from the 5th to the 15th century in the West, within different social andreligious contexts;
-Discuss the question of authorship and commissioners;
-The social status of medieval sculptors (chronological and geographical variations)
- Sculpture as the great figurative art of the Lower Middle Ages - iconographic programmes and stylistic models at theservice of the propaganda emanating from Rome and disseminated throughout the kingdoms of Christendom. Different geographies, different forms and themes;
- The innovations of the "opera francigena", its gradual acceptance/resistance in other territories
- The Italian "way of doing" in the XIII-XV centuries
- The 15th century and the expressiveness of the "Gothic" in Northern Europe;
- Peninsular sculpture in the 15th century: the "dragging" of themes and models or resistance alongsideexperimentation with new forms and themes?
General characterization
Code
01107207
Credits
6.0
Responsible teacher
Carla Maria Lagoas Gaspar Varela Fernandes
Hours
Weekly - 4
Total - 168
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
N/A
Bibliography
- AAVV (1991)- Sculpture. 4 Vols. Geneva: Editions d'Art Albert Skira
- BOTO VARELA, Gerardo; SERRANO COLL, Marta; MACNEILL, John (Eds) (2020)- Emerging Naturalism. Contexts andNarratives in Eupean Sculpture 1140-1220. Brepols.
- FERNANDES, C.V. (2018). Pero. O Mestre das Imagens. Lisboa: Imprimatur
- FOZI, Shirin (2021) - Romanesque Tomb EffigiesThe Pennsylvania State University Press.
- GRAF, G. & REAL, M. (1986). Portugal Roman. Yonne
- LE POGAM, Pierre-Yves (2009)- Les Premiers Retables. Une mise en scène du sacré. Paris: Musée du Louvre.
- RODRIGUES, J. (1995). “O Mundo Românico (séculos XI-XIII)”. História da Arte Portuguesa. Vol. I. Lisboa: Círculo deLeitores.RÜCKERT, Claudia; STAEBEL, Jochen (Eds) (2010)- La Escultura Medieval en Francia y España. Las zonas deconfluencia entre el Portico Real de Chartres u el Portico de La gloria en Santiago de Compostela, Vervuert;Iberoamerican.
- WILLIAMSON, Paul (1998)- Escultura Gótica 1140-1300. Yale University Press.
Teaching method
Theoretical-practical classes according to the expository method using audiovisual means and the use of specific didactic means such as: support texts, images and building plans. This UC includes 3 study visits: Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga; Museu Arqueológico do Carmo e Mosteiro da Batalha. The study should be carried out continuously by consulting the recommended bibliography, the information recorded in class and the teaching material provided.
Evaluation method
Continuous assessment - 2 written test - 35% + 35%(70%), Initiation work to research in Medieval Art History, focusing on a piece that can be presented in a temporary exhibition, as if it were destined for a Temporary Exhibition Catalog and that can be directly analyzed by students. The work must be presented in writing and is not subject to oral presentation by students(30%)
Subject matter
Late Roman sculpture; New societal contexts and the decline of sculptural production in the 5th to 10th centuries-main characteristics (material, stylistic, iconographic) according to the cultural/civilizational environment (case studiesof High Middle Ages sculpture); The sculptural manifestations of the first half of the 11th century - relevant examples inthe South of France and in the North of the Iberian Peninsula; A new sculptural language for a new time: themes and achievements of the 12th and 13th centuries (case studies); The sculpture born of the urban renaissance - case studiesof the 12th and 13th centuries in France, Spain, Germany and England; the reasons for the boom in funerary sculpture and the importance of the cenegraphic contexts of funerary spaces (case studies); The expressionism of 14th century sculpture - emotiveness and humanity in focus; The accentuation of asymmetries and diversgences in Western sculptural production throughout the 15th cent. (case studies)