Iconology and History of Art [ LHART2250 ]

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Case studies will provide the keys and methods for analysing the relations between the material support of the image and its multidimensional message in shape and colour and for reading and interpreting artistic iconic messages of our era in their context and function.

Students will have acquired the main keys towards reading "images", of all artistic disciplines, from late antiquity until today, in their contexts of creation and use. They will be able to detect and analyse the principal conventions and to handle the main iconographic repertoires and their historical developments. Having mastered the strategies for deciphering isolated images and complex programmes they will be prepared for their personal research in this field.

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Thorough case studies through all arts and iconological analyses of works of art. Contents and recurrent topics: - Nature and characteristics of iconic language. - The creation of images : their sources (texts, images, environment). - Support and function (notions of programme and semantic field, ...). - The meanings of composition - and of colour. - Ornamentation, figuration and script: specificities and interaction. -Main iconographic traditions : biblical, allegorical, cosmographic, animal, mythical,'). -Typology and the use of great prefigures: exempla and counter-exempla.

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