MINISTRY OF EDUCATION OF AZERBAIJAN REPUBLIC
AZERBAIJAN UNIVERSITY OF ARCHITECTURE AND CONSTRUCTION
Approved:
Head of the department E.V.Avalov
“17” September 2014.
Syllabus
Chair “Fine Arts”
Discipline
"History of Art"
1. Information on discipline
Code
İPF-B10-b
Year of teaching
I
semester 1
Faculty
Architectural
Group
Load: lectures 30 hours
Credits: 2
Assessment type: ( Essay/ report/ test/ midterm exam/ project etc)
Room: №
Time:
2. Information on lecturer:
Name and title: Vahabova D.R., PhD in history and theory of art, senior teacher
Address of the chair: AzUAC, 3 building, 4th floor, room 408
Consultation hours:
E-mail:
[email protected]
Telephone number (chair): 5380537
3. Recommended literature:
1. Boardman J. Greek Art .Thames & Hudson; 4th Revised edition, 1996.
2. Gardner H. “Art through the ages” New York, 1948.
3. Gombrich E.H. The Story of Art. New York, 1995.
4. Hilton T. The Pre-Raphaelites. New York, 1997.
5. Hughes R. The Shock of the New. Art and the Century of Change. New York.1991.
6. Krausse A.C. The Story of Painting. From the Renaissance to the Present. Cologne, 1995.
7. Spalding F. British Art since 1900. New York, 1996.
8. Tarr D. “English Art 1870-1940”.
9. Tomory P.A. “Foundations of European Art”, New York, 1969.
10.
Vaughan W. “British Painting. The Golden Age”, New York, 1999.
Internet resources:
http://ancient-greece.org/art.html
http://www.gelonchviladegut.com/en/blog/
http://www.artcyclopedia.com
4. PURPOSE OF THE COURSE. Art History course is a chronological survey of the history
of major art forms in the Western tradition, in addition to selected works from many cultures that
exist beyond European tradition. Its aim is to get the students acquainted with essential events
in the art history determined the development of European civilization. The result of this
course should be a free orientation of the students in the field of main artistic styles and trends.
They also should obtain the information about the famous artists as well as well known
masterpieces of the world art. Personal examination of the masterpieces of Art and Architecture
from antiquity till nowadays will develop into a unique understanding of the formal, historical, and
socio/political context of the artworks.
MAIN TASK OF THE COURSE comprises the systematical knowledge of the students of the
main periods of the world art development as well as creativity of the outstanding masters of
painting and sculpture. The students should also know the peculiarities of kinds and genres of
artistic activity and forming the artistic and compositional unity in synthesis of architecture and
fine arts.
The method of teaching is based on the principle of chronological description of material with
accentuation on key problems, names, monuments.
The events and facts are exposed in
combination with artistic analysis of a number of the outstanding works of world art.
AS A RESULT OF THE DISCIPLINE THE STUDENT
SHOULD BE ABLE TO
distinguish time, styles, national peculiarities of the main artistic schools in Europe through the
ages.
STRUCTURE OF THE COURSE. The course consists of a sequence of lectures (30 hours).
During the course the students should prepare papers on various topics on art history (three
papers per term). Except of material of the European art the course also includes some topics
from the history of art of Azerbaijan.
5. The planned schedule of the subject:
5.1. Topics and summary of lectures
Weeks
Topics and summary of lectures
Hours
Date
1
2
3
4
LECTURE 1.
Introduction to Art History
1
Art as a form of human activity. Kinds and genres of art.
Abstract art and Realistic art. Main problems of art
history. Chronology. Main periods and regularities of the
development of Western European art.
2
H OUR
S
LECTURE 2.
Egyptian and Mesopotamian Art
2
Art of Ancient Egypt. Chronology. Religious basis of the
2
Ancient Egyptian culture as a whole and of
Fine Arts in H OUR
particular. Applying of the canons in depictions in painting
S
and sculpture. Art
of
Mesopotamia. Chronology.
Mythological and religious basis of the Mesopotamian
culture as a whole and of Fine Arts in particular. Succession
of the civilizing processes in artistic culture of Schumer,
Akkad, Babylon and Assyria. Ritual and magical elements in
art of Ancient Mesopotamia.
LECTURE 3.
Greek Art
3
Sculpture and vase painting. Chronology. Main periods of the
development of Greek art and main achievements at every
stage of the development. Essence of the development of
Greek sculpture. Parthenon as a central monument of Greek
architecture and sculpture. Creativity of Phidias.
2
H OUR
S
LECTURE 4.
Roman Art
4
Main sources of art of Ancient Rome. Main achievements of
2
Romans in art.
Sculptural portrait and historical relief as
H
OUR
main kinds of sculpture in Ancient Rome. Main characteristic
S
of the monumental painting in Ancient Rome – 4 styles and
their features.
LECTURE 5.
Early Christian and Byzantine Art
5
Early Christian period. Origins and establishment of the
artistic principles of Christian art. Ideological sources of
Christianity. Aesthetical principles of Christian art and their
influence upon the forms of Christian art. Early examples of
Christian painting survived in Roman catacombs. Art of
Byzantine Empire. Chronology. Main characteristics of the
Byzantine aesthetics. Artistic peculiarities of the style and
stylistic trends
in Byzantine painting. Their relation with
religious ideas. Monumental painting
and icons. Main
principles of book illumination.
2
H OUR
S
LECTURE 6.
Barbarian, Romanesque and Gothic Art in Europe.
Painting.
6
Art of the Western Europe after the fall of Rome. Barbarian
invasion the Europe. Main artistic principles and directions in
art of “Barbarian kingdoms”. Art of the Western Europe in
Romanesque and Gothic periods. Stylistic peculiarities of the
monumental painting and book illumination of the
Romanesque period. Main characteristic of painting in the
European countries in Gothic period.
2
H OUR
S
LECTURE 7.
7
Barbarian, Romanesque and Gothic Art in Europe.
Sculpture.
Sculpture of Barbarian, Romanesque and Gothic Art in
Europe and its main characteristics. Forming the iconography
in decoration of the cathedrals. Mythological nature of the art
forms of the Romanesque and Gothic sculpture. Forming the
style in sculpture of the mature Middle Ages. Style of the
“wet draperies”. Stylistic peculiarities of the Gothic
sculpture.
2
H OUR
S
LECTURE 8.
Proto-Renaissance and Early Renaissance. Main ideas
and representatives.
Art of Proto-Renaissance. The sources, artistic principles,
main representatives of sculpture and painting. Creativity of
Arnolfo di Kambio, Niccolo Pisano, Pietro Cavallini, Giotto.
8
Art of the Italian Renaissance. Main philosophical and
artistic principles.
Artistic schools. Chronology. The
founders of the Renaissance principles in architecture,
painting and sculpture. Main artistic principles, genres and
representatives in painting. Florentine school of painting. Its
stylistic peculiarities and main representatives. Venetian
school of painting. Its stylistic peculiarities and main
representatives.
2
H OUR
S
LECTURE 9.
9
Art of the Italian Renaissance. Main artistic principles,
2
genres and representatives in sculpture. Creativity of
H
OUR
Donatello and Michelangelo. Art of the Late Renaissance in
S
Italy. Mannerism. Its main artistic principles and
representatives.
LECTURE 10.
10
Art of the North European Renaissance. Netherlands.
2
Germany. France. Its main representatives and the stylistic
H OUR
peculiarities.
S
11
12
LECTURE 11.
2
LECTURE 12.
2
Art of the Western Europe of the 17th – 18th centuries. H OUR
S
Main styles, schools, trends. General characteristic. Art of
Italy in Baroque.
Main directions and their main
representatives in painting. Main characteristic of sculpture.
Creativity of Lorenzo Bernini.
Art of France in Classicism. Main directions and their main
representatives in painting. Main characteristic of sculpture
and its representatives. Art of Spain of the 16-17th centuries.
Main directions in painting and their representatives.
Flemish painting of the 17th century. Dutch painting of the
17th century. Main representatives and main works.
Italian painting of the 18th century. Main directions and their
representatives. English school of painting of the 17-18th
centuries. Its representatives.
French
painting in the Epoch of Enlightenment. Main
genres, themes, representatives. French art of the epoch of the
Great Bourgeois Revolution. Jackes Louis David and his
school.
European Art of the 19th-20th cc.
H OUR
S
English painting of the beginning of the 19th century. Spanish
th
painting of the beginning of the 19 century. French painting
of the 19th century – Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism,
Post-Impressionism. Artistic principles, main representatives.
Art of Western Europe of the 20th century. Main schools,
directions, main representatives.
LECTURE 13.
The Azerbaijan Art of the 18th-19th cc.
13
Main kinds of art – applied arts, painting. Sheki-han palace in
Sheki and its decoration. Creativity of Usta Gambar, Mir
Movsum Navvab, Mirza Kadim Irevani.
LECTURE 14.
14
2
H OUR
S
2
The Azerbaijan Art of the 20th c. General characteristics. H OUR
S
The Azerbaijan Sculpture. General characteristics and
representatives.
Historical and political situation in Azerbaijan and Baku at
the beginning of the 20th c. Role of Russian artists and
Russian artistic school in the forming of the Azerbaijan art
school of the new epoch. Main sculptors and their works.
Main types and genres of sculpture in the Azerbaijan art of
the 20th c.
LECTURE 15.
The Azerbaijan Art of the 20th c. The Azerbaijan Painting.
General characteristics and representatives.
Stages of the forming of the national school of painting of the
20th c. Main representatives. Main genres and circle of
images. Main stylistic peculiarities of the Azerbaijan
contemporary painting.
15
2
H OUR
S
5.2. Topics of additional classes and their summary
Number
Theme
1.
Art of Ancient Civilizations – Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome
2.
Art of Middle Ages: Barbarians, Romanesque and Gothic periods
3.
Art of Renaissance and the 17th-18th cc. in Europe
4.
Art of the 19th -20th cc. in Europe and Azerbaijan
5.3.List of papers on subject “Art History”
1.
2.
3.
4.
Baroque as a Great Style. Main characteristics, representatives, monuments.
Classicism as a Great Style. Main characteristics, representatives, monuments.
Italian Sculpture of the Renaissance period.
European Sculpture of the Middle Ages. General characteristics, representatives,
monuments.
5. European Painting of the Middle Ages. General characteristics, representatives,
monuments.
6. Italian school of Painting of the period of Italian Renaissance.
7. Venetian school of Painting. Main characteristics, representatives.
8. Lorenso Bernini.
9. Impressionism. Ideas, representatives, monuments.
10. Fauvism. Matisse as a leader of the group.
11. Expressionism. Main characteristics.
12. Pop-art: time, ideas, representatives, monuments.
13. American Avant-guarde. Ideas, representatives, monuments.
14. Post-Impressionism. Ideas, representatives, monuments.
15. Michelangelo.
16. Romanticism in the painting of France. Representatives, ideas.
17. Rembrandt.
18. Dutch painting of the 17th century. Ideas, representatives.
19. Painting of France of the 17-18th cc. Ideas, representatives.
20. Painting in France of the 19th century.
21. Greek Art. Main ideas and main forms of art.
22. The Roman Sculptural portrait. Stages of forming and development.
23. The Roman painting. General characteristics.
6. Requirements for attendance.
Maximum number of points for attendance is 10 points. In case of students’ attendance all
the classes during the semester, they get 10 points. Every 10 % of total number of missed
classes results in loss of 1 point. In case of exceeding the acceptable limit of missed classes the
students are not allowed to taking the exam. Special desicion should be taking concerning
their further position.
7. Assessment of students knowledge
Maximum number of points for knowledge is 100. 50 of them students collect during
the semester, while 50 points are determined for exam. The scored during the semester 50
points include: 10 points per attendance, 10 points for writing papers (three papers per term),
30 points as a result of intermediate tests. During the examination the students must score
at least 17 points. In case of more than 25% of missed classes, the students are not allowed to
exam.
According to the European Credit System for the results of points accumulated for the
semester, the students are evaluated as follows:
Less than 51 points
51 - 60 points
61 - 70 points
71 - 80 points
81 - 90 points
91 - 100 points
–
–
–
–
–
–
«non satisfactory»
«acceptably»
“satisfactory”
«good»
“very good”
“best”
–F
–E
–D
–C
–B
–A
8. Violation of the rules of conduct. In case of violation by the student the code of
conduct provided by the University the activities under the Regulations will be applied.
9. The Art History course preliminary requirements:
No special requirements
10. Determining the views of students on the subject:
Lecturer:
Dilara Vahabova,
senior teacher, PhD in history and theory of art
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