Medieval Art I

Pre-requisites: Prerequisites for attending graduate (master’s degree) programme are prescribed by the Statute of the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade.

Course objectives: Objective of the course is to enable students to acquire additional knowledge in specialised courses about the development and characteristics of the Medieval Art, as well as to prepare them for more advanced study programme.

Course description: In the course, students will study various forms of artistic creation from the Early Christian era to the Late Middle Ages. Special attention will be paid to the conceptual and spiritual foundations of visual art creation. The content of individual courses shall be determined in consultation of the mentor with registered candidates, and it may refer to the Early Christian, Byzantine and Coptic Art, as well as the Medieval Art in the countries of Eastern and Western Europe, Georgia and Armenia.

Learning Outcomes: Having attended lectures and having fulfilled all obligations with regard to examination, the student has learned more about the different forms of artistic creation in the Middle Ages and is qualified to use the sources and scientific literature in the study of the Medieval Art.

Literature/Reading:

• Ž. Dibi, Umetnost i društvo u srednjem veku, Beograd 2001.
• A. Grabar, L’Âge d’or de Justinien, de la mort de Théodose à l’Islam, Paris 1966.(= A. Grabar, The golden age of Justinian, from the death of Theodosius to the rise of Islam, New York 1967)
• V. N. Lazarev, Istorija vizantijskog slikarstva, Beograd 2004
• A. Grabar, Srednjovekovna umetnost istočne Evrope, Novi Sad 1969
• A Documentary History of Art, Vol. I, ed. E. Gilmore Holt, Princeton 1981
• L’art du Moyen Age: Occident, Byzance, Islam, dir. J.-P. Caillet, Paris 1995.
• L’arte medievale nel contesto: 300-1300 : funzioni, iconografia, tecniche, red. P. Piva, Milano 2006
• J. Snyder, H. Luttikhuizen, D. Verkerk, Art of the Middle Ages, Upper Saddle River (Prentice Hall) 2006
• A. Grabar, Le premier art chretien (200-395), Paris 1966 (=A. Grabar, Early Christian art. From the rise of Christianity to the death of Theodosius, New York 1968).