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
Center Faculty of Geography and History
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: Sin Docencia (En Extinción)
Enrolment: No Matriculable (Sólo Planes en Extinción)
- To understand what textual and documentary sources are, and their relevance for Art History.
- To familiarize students with different types of sources and how to use them in diverse research contexts.
- To approach textual and visual sources for a deeper understanding of the work of art within its historical and chronological context.
- To learn how to read textual and visual sources in a critical way and to work with them in an interdisciplinary fashion
- To learn how to integrate textual and documentary sources in the art historical analysis.
- To train the students in source-treatment and art historical writing applied to art historical research.
- To encourage students to become familiar with other disciplines related to Art History (palaeography, codicology, epigraphy, numismatics, etc.)
PART ONE: DOCUMENTARY AND EPIGRAPHIC SOURCES FOR THE HISTORY OF ART
1. The document: types of archival sources and their relevance for Art History
2. Epigraphic sources: monumental script and its role in art historical research
SECOND PART: LITERARY SOURCES FOR THE HISTORY OF ANCIENT ART
3. Sources for the study of ancient art: Writings on theory of the arts
4. Historiographical sources: texts about artists and their creations
5. Literature and the visual arts
6. Myth, storytelling and image
7. Travel literature in Antiquity
THIRD PART: LITERARY SOURCES FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL ART
8. Treatises, sketchbooks and repertoires on visual arts and architecture
9. The memory of the patrons: historiographical texts
10. Image-text interaction in Medieval culture
11. Travel literature in the Middle Ages
12. Legislative sources. Liturgical sources: main features and evolution
PART FOUR: LITERARY SOURCES FOR THE HISTORY OF MODERN ART
14. Between memory and history: the lives of artists in the Renaissance
15. Architectural and artistic treatises and their use as iconographic repertoires
16. Artistic descriptions in literary sources: travel books
17. Literature on art: the genre of emblematics
18. Printing as a source for other media
PART FIVE: LITERARY SOURCES FOR THE HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ART
19. Art criticism in periodical publications: information and critique
20. Magazines and manifestos of the Avant-garde movements
21. Oral sources: interviews with artists and architects
22. Exhibition catalogues: documentation and research
23. Digital archives, image treatment
Compulsory reading (excerpts): VASARI, G., Las vidas de los más excelentes arquitectos, pintores y escultores italianos, desde Cimabue a nuestros tiempos, ed. L. Bellosi y A. Rossi, Madrid, Cátedra, 2011.
Basic bibliography:
- FORD, S,. Information Sources in Art, Art History and Design, Berlin, K. G. Saur, 2015.
- SCHLOSSER, J.: La literatura artística. Ed. Cátedra. Madrid, 1993 (Viena, 1924).
- KULTERMAANN, V.: Historia de la historia del arte. El camino de una ciencia, Madrid, Akal, 1996.-
- RAMÍREZ, J.A.: Cómo escribir sobre arte y arquitectura, Barcelona, Ediciones del Serbal, 1999.-
- SÁNCHEZ CANTÓN, F.J.: Fuentes literarias para la historia del arte español (varios tomos). Madrid, 1923-1941.
- URQUÍZAR HERRERA, A. Y GARCÍA MELERO, J.E.: La construcción historiográfica del Arte. Ed. Ramón Areces. Madrid, 2012.
- VIGO TRASANCOS, A. (coord.) y otros: Fontes escritas para a Historia da Arquitectura e do Urbanismo en Galicia (séculos XI-XX) (2 vols.). Santiago de Compostela,
- WOOD, Ch., A History of Art History, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2019.
Complementary bibliography for UNIT 1 & 2.
- PITARCH et al.: Fuentes y documentos para la Hª del Arte Antiguo: (Próximo Oriente, Grecia y Roma). Gustavo Gili, Barcelona, 1982.
- TAMAYO, A.: Archivística, diplomática y sigilografía. Madrid, Cátedra, 1996.
- YARZA LUACES, J.: Fuentes de la Historia del Arte I. Ed. Historia 16. Madrid, 1997.
- YARZA LUACES, J.; GUARDIA, M. Y VICENS, T.: Fuentes y documentos para la Hª del Arte (Medieval I: Alta Edad Media y Bizancio). Gustavo Gili. Barcelona, 1982.
- YARZA LUACES, J. et al.: Fuentes y documentos para la Hª del Arte (Medieval II: Románico y Gótico). Gustavo Gili. Barcelona, 1982.
Complementary bibliography for UNIT 3.
- ARIAS SERRANO, L., Las fuentes de la historia del arte en época contemporánea, Barcelona, Ediciones del Serbal, 2012.
- BAXANDALL, M., Giotto y los oradores. La visión de la pintura en los humanistas italianos y el descubrimiento de la composición pictórica, 1350-1450, Madrid, Machado Libros, 2010.
- BLUNT, A., Teoría de las artes en Italia, 1450-1600, Madrid, Cátedra, 1980.
- CALVO SERRALLER, F. y PORTÚS, J.: Fuentes de la Historia del Arte II, Madrid, Historia 16, nº 22, 2001.
- GARCÍA MELERO, J. E., Literatura española sobre artes plásticas, Madrid, Encuentro, 2002, 2 vols.
- GRIGERA, J. (comp.): Renacimiento en Europa (“Fuentes y documentos para la historia del arte”). Gustavo Gili. Barcelona, 1983.
- FERNÁNDEZ ARENAS, J. y BASSEGODA, B.: Barroco en Europa (“Fuentes y documentos para la historia del arte”). Gustavo Gili. Barcelona, 1983.
- FERNÁNDEZ ARENAS, J.: Renacimiento y Barroco en España (“Fuentes y documentos para la historia del arte”). Gustavo Gili. Barcelona, 1982.
- PAYNE, A., The Architectural treatise in the Italian Renaissance : architectural invention, ornament, and literacy culture, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999.
- VASARI, G., Las vidas de los más excelentes arquitectos, pintores y escultores italianos, desde Cimabue a nuestros tiempos, ed. L. Bellosi y A. Rossi, Madrid, Cátedra, 2011.
1) To understand what textual, documentary or visual “sources” are, as well as the vocabulary and conceptual tools related to source criticism.
2) To become familiar with different methodological approaches to the work of art, in its historical, artistic, theoretical or aesthetic dimensions.
3) To learn how to apply the critical analysis of sources to art historical research, and to work in an interdisciplinary fashion
4) To learn how to use different kind of sources in an integrated analysis of the work of art
5) To analyze specific literary texts inspired by artworks studied in the degree, so as to provide students with a richer and integrated approach to artistic phenomena.
The student will:
CT-1 – Acquire basic skills for the critical reading of texts and documents and how to use them
for research purposes.
CT-2 – Learn to how to write and speak about art historical issues in a professional way.
CT-3 – Learn how to use the suitable terminology.
Subject from the old plan is being phased out, with no in-person teaching. Students can use tutorials.
The final grade for the course consists exclusively of a single written exam on the officially scheduled date (100% of the final grade).
Students will also be examined on the required course reading (Vasari, G.,Las vidas de los más excelentes arquitectos, pintores y escultores italianos, desde Cimabue a nuestros tiempos, ed. L. Bellosi y A. Rossi, Madrid, Cátedra, 2011).
In cases of fraudulent completion of exercises or tests, the provisions of the Regulations for the Evaluation of Student Academic Performance and Grade Review will apply.
All the hours corresponding to this subject will be for the student's personal work.
Attend tutorials for the preparation of the course
Maria Dolores Fraga Sampedro
- Department
- History of Art
- Area
- History of Art
- Phone
- 881812598
- mdolores.fraga [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Rosa Maria Rodriguez Porto
- Department
- History of Art
- Area
- History of Art
- Category
- Researcher: Ramón y Cajal