UCL - History of Painting: from Renaissance to Neo-Classicism

[ARKM2740]

[15h] 5 credits

This course is taught in the 2d semester.

Teacher(s): Joël Roucloux

Language: French

Level: Second

Aims
Main themes
Content and teaching methods
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Aims

The students will acquire a basic knowledge in the field of the painting of the 16th and the 17th centuries in the Southern Low Countries. The focus will be on Pieter Bruegel the Elder for the 16th century, Pieter-Paul Rubens, Anton Van Dijck, Jacob Jordaens for the 17th century.

Main themes

Pieter Bruegel the Elder will be discussed at length. After a general overview of his work, one of his masterpieces The Triumph of Death (Madrid, Prado) will be examined in detail. Attention will also be paid to the production of his sons, Pieter the Jounger and Jan the Velvet, and mainly their copies after their father: what were their models and how did they achieve their huge production? For the 17th century, the most famous masters, Rubens, Van Duhck and Jordaens, will be considered and compared.

Content and teaching methods

Contents for 2007-2008 : voir "objet" de l'activité
Teaching methods: theoretical. The students have to write a short paper. If the circumstances (time, number of students..) allow it, the students will present the results of their investigations.
Reading list: H. Verougstraete et R. Van Schoute, The 'Triumph of Death' by Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Pieter Brueghel the Younger. Intellegetur plus semper quam pingitur, dans Actes du colloque IX pour l'étude du dessin sous-jacent dans la peinture. Dessin sous-jacent et pratiques d'atelier (éd. R. Van Schoute et H. Verougstraete), Institut supérieur d'archéologie et d'histoire de l'art, UCL. Document de travail n° 24, Louvain-la-Neuve, 1993, p. 213-241. a selected bibliography will be distributed and commented. It will include the most recent monographies on the cited artists

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Evaluation: oral examination (10), personal report (5) oral presentation (if possible; 5). The evaluation system is subject to change if the exercices should be adapted to the number of students.
Support: notes.