Course detail
Architecture of 17th Century
FA-A17-TAcad. year: 2023/2024
This cycle of lectures on the European architecture of the 17th century will acquaint the students to the early and late Baroque and Classicist architecture in Italy, Spain, France, England, Germany, Austria and the Czech Lands. Students will learn the broader cultural and historical context and basic information about the most important architects, architectural practice, the most important structures and theoretical publications. The course includes three excursions (to the Baroque chateaus and urbanism).
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Department
Entry knowledge
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Students will regularly participate in most of the lectures and should actively engage in the discussions; they will take part in the obligatory excursions where they will interpret the paper on the previously assigned topic. Absences from the lectures and namely from the excursions can be excused only for serious reasons.
In the case of a student's apology and with approval of the subject guarantor, personal attendance may be substituted with online attendance in the classes.
Aims
- Students will familiarize themselves with the cultural and historical context of the 17th century.
- Students will learn about the beginnings of Italian Baroque architecture and its spread throughout the whole Europe.
- Students will be able to identify the style of most Baroque structures and to analyse the broader context of Baroque architecture.
- Students will be informed of the most important architects and structures of the European Baroque.
- Students will learn to orient in the most important architectural publications and will be able to describe their influence on the subsequent architecture.
Study aids
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
KRSEK, Ivo, KUDĚLKA, Zdeněk, STEHLÍK, Miloš, VÁLKA, Josef. Umění baroka na Moravě a ve Slezsku. Praha: Academia, 1996. ISBN 80-200-0540-4. (CS)
MACEK, Petr, BIEGL, Richard, BACHTÍK, Jakub (eds). Barokní architektura v Čechách. Praha: Nakladatelství Karolinum, 2015. ISBN 978-80-246-2736-6 (CS)
PREISS, Pavel. Italští umělci v Praze. Praha: Panorama, 1986. (CS)
PREISS, Pavel. Italští umělci v Praze. Praha: Panorama, 1986. (CS)
PREISS, Pavel. Panoráma manýrismu. Kapitoly o umění a kultuře 16. století. Praha: Odeon, 1974. (CS)
TOMAN, Rolf. Baroko. Architektura, plastika, malířství. Praha: Slovart, 2007. ISBN 978-80-7209-771-5 (CS)
VLČEK, Pavel. Dějiny architektury renesance a baroka. Praha: Česká technika - nakladatelství ČVUT, 2006. ISBN 80-01-03407-0. (CS)
Recommended reading
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme N_A+U Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
specialization --- (do 2022) , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
Type of course unit
Lecture
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
- Introduction to the cultural history of European Baroque civilization
- Roman architecture of Seicento (the successors of Michelangelo – Vignola, della Porta, Fontana)
- Roman architecture of the late Baroque and Accademia di San Luca (Bernini, Borromini, Cortona)
- Italian architecture of Seicento (Savoy, Veneto, Lucca, Naples and Sicily)
- Baroque architecture in Spain, Belgium, Portugal and South America (Carbonel, Churriguera)
- Classicist architecture and urban design in France (de Brosse, Mansart, Le Vau, Mansart)
- Classicist architecture in England (Jones, Wren, Vanbrugh, Hawksmoor)
- Baroque architecture in the Habsburg monarchy (Pomis, Tencalla, Fischer von Erlach, Hildebrandt)
- Early Baroque architecture in Bohemia (Italian architects Filippi, Carrati, Lurago, Mathey)
- Early Baroque architecture in Moravia (Pieroni, Carlone, Tencalla, Erna)
Field trip
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
- Excursion – early Baroque monuments in the city of Brno
- Excursion – Valtice Chateau
- Excursion – town conservation area, the chateau and the gardens in Kroměříž