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
- 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.
In order to facilitate the learning process, different modalities of teaching will be displayed:
- Lectures (in the classroom) for the explanation of the theoretical contents of the course.
- Interactive seminars (in the classroom) for activities intended to stimulate student participation, around both theoretical and more practical issues.
- The Virtual USC platform will be used for providing students with guidelines and working materials.
- Fieldwork in archives, libraries and relevant monuments in the city of Santiago de Compostela will be arranged throughout the course, as well as a study trip (in Spain) if additional funding is provided to this end.
- Tuituion hours.
Evaluation is continuous and cumulative:
1. EVALUATION ON THE CONTENTS OF THE LECTURES (THEORETICAL)
The written examination will entail the 60 % of the total mark (6 points). Students should get a mark over 3 in the exam to be able to sum the mark of the interactive seminars, otherwise they should take the second chance exam in July.
2 EVALUATION OF THE INTERACTIVE SEMINARS.
Attendance and participation in the discussions, commentaries and practical activities scheduled will suppose the 40% of the total mark (4 points). Students should get a mark over 2 in the seminars and fieldwork to be able to sum the mark of the written exam. Otherwise, students under the minimal mark of 2 points should answer a few questions about the interactive seminars and fieldwork in the second chance exam in July.
This evaluation system will in place for both the May and July evaluation periods.
3. EVALUATION OF THE COMPULSORY READING.
The evaluation arrangement related to the compulusory 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) will be devised and explained by the instructors in the classroom.
4. EVALUATION FOR STUDENTS WITH AN OFFICIAL WAIVER OF ATTENDANCE: Following the Instruction Nº 1/2017 of Secretaría Xeral, students who are exempt from attendance under certain circumstances will be evaluated with a specific final exam (100%). Exemption from attendance must be authorized in advance by the university.
Classwork: 50 h.
30 h. theoretical sessions, 15 h. interactive sessions, 5 h. tuitions
Homework: 100 h.
-Personal study at home: 60 h.
-Readings: 25 h.
-Preparation of oral presentations, seminars: 8 h.
-Others: 7 h.
Total: 100 h.
- To be familiar with basic concepts for the History of Art.
- To have completed the first year of the degree of Art History at the USC.
- This course is closely related to 'Fundamentos teóricos de la historia del Arte' (first year course of the degree in Art History at the USC).
- To have a basic command of the History of Art.
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
Rosa Maria Rodriguez Porto
- Department
- History of Art
- Area
- History of Art
- Category
- Researcher: Ramón y Cajal
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