Course detail
History of Art up to 18th Century
FSI-YU3 Acad. year: 2026/2027 Winter semester
Supervisor
Department
Learning outcomes of the course unit
Prerequisites
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
The exam examines the knowledge of the development of the visual arts of the period, the relationships and the connections with the previous development and continuity at present. The exam: written test. According to the article No. 13 of Study and Examination Rules of Brno University of Technology ECTS evaluation degree scale is used. The course is evaluated with the following grades: ECTS EVALUATION DEGREES / PTS. RATING / NUMERIC RATING: A / 100 – 90 / 1 / Excellent; B /89 – 80 / 1,5 / Very good; C / 79 – 70 / 2 / Good; D / 69 – 60 / Satisfactory; E / 59 – 50 / Sufficient; F / 49 – 0 / 4 / Failed.
The attendance at lectures is recommended.
Language of instruction
Czech
Aims
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
The study programmes with the given course
Programme B-VKP-P: Visual Communication in the Creative Industries, Bachelor's
branch ---: no specialisation, 3 credits, compulsory
Programme B-PDS-P: Industrial Design, Bachelor's
branch ---: no specialisation, 3 credits, compulsory
Type of course unit
Lecture
39 hours, optionally
Syllabus
- Introduction – the fields of fine arts and their characteristics, applied art, Arts and Crafts, periodization, characterization of style, basic concepts (realistic, naturalistic, expressive, abstraction, composition, idealization, linear, geometric, organic,...).
- Prehistoric art (paleolithic, neolithic, megalithic structures, functions, sculpture, painting, crafts).
- Egypt, Mesopotamia, Crete, Mycenae.
- Ancient Greece, the art of the Etrusks, the Romans
- Art of the Early Christian, Byzantine, Early Middle Ages (pre-Carolinian, Carolinian).
- Romanesque art (architecture, sculpture, painting, artisanal crafts in European countries and in our country).
- Gothic (architecture, sculpture, painting, crafts in European countries and in our country).
- Early Renaissance – architecture, sculpture, painting and artistic crafts of the Renaissance period in Italy, other European countries, the Renaissance in Bohemia and Moravia.
- High Renaissance – Architecture, Sculpture, Painting and – Renaissance Art Crafts in Italy.
- Mannerism – architecture, sculpture, painting and artistic crafts of the Renaissance period in Italy.
- Baroque 1 – architecture and sculpture in the spirit of radical Baroque and Baroque Classicism.
- Baroque 2 – painting and arts crafts in the spirit of radical Baroque and Baroque Classicism.
- Baroque realism in painting, Rococo – painting and arts.