ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: History of Art
Areas: History of Art
Center Faculty of Geography and History
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
The basic objectives of this course are of two types:
General:
- Getting to know the different methodologies for the study of art as technical, cultural and intellectual fact.
- Reflecting on the problem of interpretation of the artwork.
- Providing the tools to understand the relationships between the different methodologies of art history and other disciplines.
Specific:
- To introduce the student, especially in the theoretical and practical aspects of the iconographic method, its history and development, its current situation and the value of its application as a task of the art historian.
-To promote their critical thinking through the study of the great theorists in the study of iconography
- To introduce the students into the problem of the origin, development and transmission of greek myth
- To familiarize students with the mythological repertoire of Western art and, specifically, with the mythological figurative development of Ovid's Metamorphoses
PART I: INTRODUCTION TO THE METHODS FOR THE HISTORY OF ART
Topic 1.-Art as a principle.
1.1.- The concept of art.
1.2.- The values of art
1.3.- The historical sequence
Topic 2.- Methods and approaches: forms, images and interpretation
2.1.- The study of iconography in the History of art. Images, gesture and code
2.2.- Iconography and iconology. Definition, history and uses
2.3.- The language of images
2.4.- The iconological method of E. Panofsky and E. Gombrich: the integral interpretation of the history of art.
2.5.- The processes of creation and development of the images: life, language, syntax and style
PART II: INTRODUCTION TO CLASSIC ICONOGRAPHY
Topic 3.- Introduction to classical iconography: the gods and the myth
3.1.- Greek mythology as a system and language: artistic sources and literary sources.
3.2.- The iconography of myth: genesis, transmission and survival.
3.3.- Myth and figuration: story, text and image in the Greek world.
3.4.- The gods of Olympus: the Greek pantheon and its representation.
3.5.- The reception of the myth and its image in Rome: Ovid and the poem of the Metamorphoses.
3.6.- Tradition and survival: the lives of myth in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
FIELD TRIP:
Visit: Monuments and museums
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Bialostocki, J., Estilo e iconografía. Contribución a una ciencia de las artes, Barral Eds., Barcelona, 1972.
Idem, The Message of Images. Studies in the History of Art, Viena, 1988.
Carmona Muela, J., Iconografía Clásica. Guía básica para estudiantes, Istmo Ed., Madrid, 2000.
Carpenter, H., Art and Myth in Ancient Greece. A Handbook, Londres, 1991. (Edición española: Carpenter, Th., Arte y Mito en la Grecia antigua, Destino, Madrid, 2001).
Castiñeiras, M. A., Introdución al método iconográfico, Ariel, Barcelona, 1998.
Davidson Reid, J., The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts 1300-1990 s, I, Nueva York-Oxford, 1993.
Didi-Huberman, G., Ante el tiempo. Historia del arte y anacronismo de las imágenes, Buenos Aires, 2006
Díez Platas, F., Imágenes para un texto. Guía iconográfica de las Metamorfosis de Ovidio, Tórculo, Santiago, 2000.
Eco, U., Semiótica y filosofía del lenguaje, Barcelona, 1990.
Eliade, M., Imágenes y símbolos, Taurus, Madrid, 1974.Freedberg, D., El poder de las imágenes. Estudios sobre la historia y la teoría de la respuesta, Madrid, 1992.
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Enciclopedia dell’arte antica classica ed orientale, Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana, Roma, 1958-1966.
Esteban Lorente, J. F., Tratado de Iconografía, Istmo Ed., Madrid, 1998.
Gombrich, E. H., Aby Warburg: una biografía intelectual, Alianza Forma, Madrid, 1992.
Gombrich, E.H., Imágenes simbólicas, Estudios sobre el arte del Renacimiento Alianza Editorial, 1994
Grabar, A., Las vías de la creación de la iconografía cristiana, A. F., Madrid, 1991.
Harrison, Ch./Wood, P., Art in Theory 1900-2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas, London, 2003
Holly, M. A., Panofsky and the Foundations of Art History, Cornell University Press, 1987.
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, Zurich-Munich, 1988-1995, (8 vols.).
López Torrijos, R., La mitología en la pintura española de los siglos XVI Y XVII, Madrid, 1982.
Moormann, E. M. y Uitterhoeve, W., De Acteón a Zeus. Akal Ediciones, Madrid, 1997
Moralejo, S., Formas elocuentes. Reflexiones sobre la teoría de la representación. Ediciones Akal, Madrid, 2004.
Panofsky, E., Estudios sobre iconología, Alianza Universidad, Madrid, 1972.
Idem, El significado de las artes visuales, Madrid, 1979.
Idem, Imágenes simbólicas. Estudios sobre el arte del Renacimiento, Alianza Forma, Madrid, 1983.
Idem, Renacimiento y renacimientos en el arte occidental, Alianza Universidad, Madrid, 1981.
Saxl, F., La vida de las imágenes, Alianza Forma, Madrid, 1989.
Seznec, J., Los dioses de la Antigüedad en la Edad Media y en el Renacimiento, Madrid, 1983.
Shapiro, H. A., Myth and Art. Poet and Painter in Classical Greek, Londres-Nueva York, 1994.
Warburg, A.,La rinascita del paganesimo antico, Florencia, 1991.
Wind, E., Los misterios paganos del Renacimiento, Barral Ed., Barcelona, 1976.
Yates, F. A., El arte de la memoria, Taurus, Madrid, 1974.
Students will be able to :
- Understand and reflect on the various methods of analysis and interpretation of the artistic fact .
- Analyze, organize and interpret information from different literature sources and other sources of information on these artistic materials .
- Analyze, identify connections and synthesize knowledge.
- Analyze and interpret images using the appropriate methodology .
- Set out in writing and orally their knowledge and reflections on the methods of Art history as discipline, using properly the technical vocabulary of the subject.
- Apply knowledge in a rigorous way through new technologies.
- Keynote lessons on the theoretical contents of the subject.
- Interactive sessions in which the activities will be practical and related to the theoretical contents of the subject . Reading texts and practical application of the iconographic method through analysis and interpretation of images is required.
The practical sessions may include a field trip to explore and analyze complex iconographic programs .
-Personal tutoring.
The assessment will consist of three parts: written test (examination), class participation
seminars and work practices and personal, which will include a classroom presentation.
The written test will account for 50% of the final grade.
Practical classes, participation in seminars and completion of the work will account for 30% of the final grade.
Attendance at lectures and practices is mandatory and will account for 20% of the final grade. Failing to attend more than the 20% of the lectures and practices will result in the impossibility of being evaluated in the first opportunity in may-june.
The student that has not completed the Interactive Teaching should pass the Theoretical Exam and complete the whole Interactive Teaching Dossier.
Following the Instruction Nº 1/2017 of Secretaría Xeral, students who are exempt from attendance in certain situations will be evaluated with a specific final exam (100%). Exemption from attendance must be authorized in advance by the university.
TIME PRESENCIAL OF THE STUDENT: 47 hours.
Expositive Session: 32 hours.
Interactive Session: 16 hours.
Personal Tutorship: 3 hours.
TIME OF STUDY And PERSONAL ACTIVITY: 99 hours.
Individual autonomous study or in group: 56 hours.
Readings recommended, activities of library and similar: 28 hours.
Preparation of oral presentations, debates and similar: 8 hours.
Other tasks proposed by the professors: 7 hours.
Attendance at lectures and practices, besides mandatory, is essential for the complete understanding and following up of the subject.
All the reading, teaching and complementary materials will be available for the students at the USC Virtual Campus.
Reading knowledge of other Modern Languages, apart from Spanish and Galician, is highly recomended.
Maria De Fatima Diez Platas
- Department
- History of Art
- Area
- History of Art
- Phone
- 881812546
- fatima.diez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Maria Dolores Fraga Sampedro
Coordinador/a- Department
- History of Art
- Area
- History of Art
- Phone
- 881812598
- mdolores.fraga [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Guillermo Rodríguez Alonso
- Department
- History of Art
- Area
- History of Art
- Phone
- 881812729
- guille.rodriguez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Xunta Pre-doctoral Contract
| Thursday | |||
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| 11:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Spanish | Classroom 10 |
| Friday | |||
| 09:30-11:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Spanish | Classroom 10 |
| 05.21.2021 16:00-18:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Virtual classroom |
| 07.14.2021 16:00-18:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Virtual classroom |