Medieval Art (20048)

Degree/study: Degree in Humanities
Year: 3rd-4th
Term: 2nd
Number of ECTS credits: 5 credits
Hours of studi dedication: 125 hours
Teaching language or languages: catalan
Teaching Staff: Francesc-Xavier Mingorance / Josep M. Palau

1. Presentation of the subject

A study of the main artistic signs in the Catalan Counties during the Romanesque period (10th-13th centuries).
The course seeks to provide students with some basic knowledge on Romanesque Art and its meaning within the context of the Catalan Counties and their relations with the other peninsular kingdoms.

2. Competences to be attained

General competences

Specific competences

Instrumental skills 1.    Analysis and synthesis skills. 2.    Organisation and planning skills. 3.    Spoken and written communication in one's own language. 4.    Knowledge of a foreign language. 5.    Documental research and reference sources. 6.    Interrelation between concrete and theoretical knowledge. 7.    Understanding the interrelation between Literature, History, Art and Thought. Interpersonal skills 8.    Diversity and multiculturality acknowledgement. 9.    Analytical reasoning. Systemic skills 10.    Knowledge of other cultures and habits. 11.    Hard, rigorous working skills. 12.    Continued learning skills. 13.    Being able to keep curiosity arisen.

1.    Contextualising artistic signs from the Catalan Romanesque within their original social and cultural context. 2.    Establishing appropriate relations between written and visual culture from the studied period. 3.    Acquiring objective criteria for the interpretation and evaluation of pieces of Romanesque Art, in general, and of Catalan Romanesque Art, more precisely. 4.    Recognising the iconographic attributes of the most common representation of Romanesque Art. 5.    Recognising the technical and conceptual determinants which lead to the adoption of certain forms to the detriment of others. 6.    Identifying the survival of certain forms and stylistic traits and being able to relate them to codification, transmission and vulgarisation processes. 7.    Acquiring the necessary visual habits for the study of pieces of art from different periods.

3. Contents

Block A (Francesc-Xavier Mingorance)
Unit 1
The historiography of Catalan Romanesque. Architecture and sculpture. State of the Arts. Defining traits of the Romanesque Architecture and Sculpture in the Catalan Counties.
Unit 2
The 11th century
Native-style Romanesque Architecture and Sculpture.
Lombard-style Romanesque Architecture and Sculpture.

The 12th century
The survival of the Lombard forms in the Romanesque of the Catalan Counties
Romanesque Sculpture in 12th-century Catalan Counties, from the Roussillon focus to the great cloisters.
Unit 3
The great Cathedral sees in Northern Catalonia and their schools.
The arrival of the Cistercians and their influence on the late Romanesque.
Block B (Josep M. Palau)
Unit 4
Romanesque wooden sculpture: virgins, majesties and descents.
Unit 5
Mural Romanesque painting and the main production centres in Catalonia and the relations with Castilian and Aragonese paintings. Paint on wood.
Unit 6
Manuscript illumination. The Art of the Object.

 

*The full version with the sections 4. Assessment, 5. Bibliography and teaching resources, 6. Methodology, and 7. Planning of activities is available in the original version.

4. Assessment

5. Bibliography and teaching resources

5.1. Basic bibliography

5.2. Complementary bibliography

5.3. Teaching resources

6. Metodology

7. Planning of activities