2024
History of the Portuguese Art I
Name: History of the Portuguese Art I
Code: HIS14764L
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
History of the Art
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
The curricular unit addresses the following main objectives:
a. awareness of Portuguese arts, its aesthetic and cultural contexts
b. knowledge of the most significant artistic achievements and their categories in an historical context
c. improvement of the ability to identify the aspects of social, cultural and psychological expression of such artistic achievements.
In reference to skills and competences to be acquired by students, it is intended to improve:
a. the capacity to identify styles and protagonism
b. the ability to observe artistic achievements, the capacity for criticism and the recognition of the adequate study sources.
c. the understanding that images and graphic construction are a tool to set the works of art as visual sources
Regarding the principles of active learning, according to the learning objectives set out above, it is expected that students will be able to express knowledge through their own communicative strategies, promoting key presentations.
a. awareness of Portuguese arts, its aesthetic and cultural contexts
b. knowledge of the most significant artistic achievements and their categories in an historical context
c. improvement of the ability to identify the aspects of social, cultural and psychological expression of such artistic achievements.
In reference to skills and competences to be acquired by students, it is intended to improve:
a. the capacity to identify styles and protagonism
b. the ability to observe artistic achievements, the capacity for criticism and the recognition of the adequate study sources.
c. the understanding that images and graphic construction are a tool to set the works of art as visual sources
Regarding the principles of active learning, according to the learning objectives set out above, it is expected that students will be able to express knowledge through their own communicative strategies, promoting key presentations.
Contents
1. Arts, culture and society: foreground study perspectives
2. From Early Christian art to the First Kings and monuments (ca. 1150-1350): Romanesque and Early Gothic.
- Cathedrals, monasteries and rural churches
- Military and civil architecture
- Sculpture and symbol
- The illuminated manuscripts.
3. Highlights - Gothic, Late Gothic (ca. 1350-1450): scale and privilege
- The Monastery of Batalha
- The Royal Palace of Sintra
- Sculpture and tombstone
- Nuno Gonçalves and the Lisbon workshop.
4. The coming of an artistic identity (1450-1525): from the Primitives to the Masters of King Manuel 1st.
- Manueline Architecture and Sculpture
- Francisco Henriques, Jorge Afonso and Grão Vasco.
5. Arts in 1500-1550: Humanism, Classicism and Mannerism
- Introduction and consolidation of Roman style art.1 Classicism and its national formulations.
6. Arts in 1550-1700: Counter Reformation, the Portuguese Plain Style and the 1st Baroque
- Classicism and its national formulations.
2. From Early Christian art to the First Kings and monuments (ca. 1150-1350): Romanesque and Early Gothic.
- Cathedrals, monasteries and rural churches
- Military and civil architecture
- Sculpture and symbol
- The illuminated manuscripts.
3. Highlights - Gothic, Late Gothic (ca. 1350-1450): scale and privilege
- The Monastery of Batalha
- The Royal Palace of Sintra
- Sculpture and tombstone
- Nuno Gonçalves and the Lisbon workshop.
4. The coming of an artistic identity (1450-1525): from the Primitives to the Masters of King Manuel 1st.
- Manueline Architecture and Sculpture
- Francisco Henriques, Jorge Afonso and Grão Vasco.
5. Arts in 1500-1550: Humanism, Classicism and Mannerism
- Introduction and consolidation of Roman style art.1 Classicism and its national formulations.
6. Arts in 1550-1700: Counter Reformation, the Portuguese Plain Style and the 1st Baroque
- Classicism and its national formulations.
Teaching Methods
The lectures, starting with the exposition of contents, will also benefit of the use of auxiliary technological means leading to the most effective contact with the works of art. A targeted monitoring of the students will be established concerning the progress of learning. It is foreseable a development of strategies that lead students into the status of active elements of such progress, bringing competences to personal preparation, interest for joint debates and public presentation of subjects.
Teaching regime will preferably be face-to-face but distance activities may be provided, with limits. The case may be remote assistance to lectures and conference events. Other activity may take place through visits, either to museums or local galleries, or taking advantage of organized study trips. Students must choose between the continuous assessment, comprising one written test and one critical-descriptive group work on dates to be combined or the evaluation by final examination proof..
Teaching regime will preferably be face-to-face but distance activities may be provided, with limits. The case may be remote assistance to lectures and conference events. Other activity may take place through visits, either to museums or local galleries, or taking advantage of organized study trips. Students must choose between the continuous assessment, comprising one written test and one critical-descriptive group work on dates to be combined or the evaluation by final examination proof..
Assessment
Students must choose between the continuous assessment, comprising one written test (50%) and one critical-descriptive group work (50%) on dates to be combined or the evaluation by final examination proof. (100%).
