Medieval Art II

Pre-requisites: Prerequisites for attending doctoral 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 specialist knowledge on the development and characteristics of the Medieval Art, and to qualify them for independent scientific research.

Course description: Within specialised courses, students will study various forms of artistic creation in the Middle Ages. The content of individual courses shall be determined based on the topics of doctoral theses chosen by registered candidates, and it may refer to the Early Christian, Byzantine and Coptic works of art, as well as the Medieval works of art of the countries of Eastern and Western Europe, Georgia and Armenia.

Learning Outcomes: Having fulfilled all stipulated obligations, students have acquired specialist knowledge about the works and phenomena of the Medieval Art that are directly related to the topic of their doctoral theses, and they are qualified for independent and relevant scientific research.

Literature/Reading:

• Excavating the Medieval Image. Manuscripts, Artists, Audiences. Essays in honor of Sandra Hindman, ed. by D. S. Areford and N. A. Rowe, Ashgate 2004
• H. Belting, Bild und Kult, Eine Geschichte des Bildes vor dem Zeitalter der Kunst, Muenchen 1990 (= H. Belting, Likeness and Presence. A History of Image before the Era of Art, Chicago 1994)
• R. Cormack, Byzantine art, Oxford - New York 2000 (series: Oxford history of art)
• 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
• The mind’s eye : art and theological argument in the Middle Ages, ed. J. F. Hamburger and A.-M. Bouché, Princeton, 2006
• Reading medieval images: the art historian and the object, ed. E. Sears and Th. K. Thomas, Ann Arbor 2002.
• 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).