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2025 Fall

Prague Art and Architecture - ART131/3 Fall 2025


Course
Marek Cerveny
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Lessons

Here is the course outline:

1. Introduction

Sep 1, Classroom

Course introduction + Chronology overview. Assignments explained and distributed.

2. Orientation class

Sep 8, Prague

Lesser Town, Old Town, New Town

3. Romanesque and Gothic Prague

Sep 15, Lesser Town, Charles bridge, Old Town

Excursion to Lesser Town, Charles Bridge and Old Town Short presentation. meeting point: Malostranské náměstí under the only tree, 11:20am

4. Gothic Art, Devotional Art + Introduction to Christian iconography

Sep 22, Prague Castle

Excursion to Prague Castle - examples of medieval architecture - Basilica of St. George, Cathedral of St. Vitus meeting point: PRAŽSKÝ HRAD tram stop (tram 22,23 up the hill from Malostranská) 11:20 here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/5TeHvZQB1dWjivPP7 Short presentation

5. Renaissance Prague; 1526-1620

Sep 29, Prague Castle and Lesser Town

Excursion Prague Castle Gardens and Wallenstein Garden. Short presentation. Meeting point: outside MALOSTRANSKÁ subway station at 11:20am

6. Renaissance/Baroque art and architecture I(1526 - 1790)

Oct 6, Royal Gardens

Excursion to Royal Gardens Short presentation. meeting point: KRÁLOVSKÝ LETOHRÁDEK tram stop at 11:20

7. Baroque art and architecture II(1620 - 1780)

Oct 13, Lesser Town, Hradčany

Excursion to Strahov Monastery, Vrtba Garden, Our Lady Victorious. Short presentation.

8. Introduction to modern iconography

Oct 20, Hradčany

Make-up - Strahov libraries, Luna... Prague Experience homework 1 DUE! Meeting point: POHOŘELEC tram stop (tram22,23) at 11:20

9. Historicism: Classicism, Romanticism and the Czech National Revival (1780 - 1900)

Nov 3, National Museum

National MuseumNational Revial Short presentation. meeting point: in front of the National Museum at 11:30am

10. Modernism 1: Early 20th-century architecture, Art nouveau, Cubism and Functionalism (1900 - 1948)

Nov 10, New Town

Excursion: architectural sites around the New Town, Municipal house Short presentation. Meeting point: in front of the Powder tower at 11:30am House of Black Madonna, Municipal Palace, Hotel Central, Bank of CS Legions, Mozarteum, Adria, Škoda, Juliš, Baťa

11. Modernism 2: Early 20th century art: František Kupka and Czech Avant-garde, (1900 - 1948)

Nov 24, Kampa Museum

Excursion to Kampa Museum - Czech Cubism and Abstraction - Frank Kupka, E. Filla, B. Kubišta, J. Čapek, O. Gutfreund Short presentation. meeting point: in front of the Mlýnská kavárna on Kampa island at 11:30 here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/zZ81PhHJoxhTsPgq7

12. WW2 and Socialist Era (1939-1989)

Dec 1, New Town

Excursion to sites connected with WW2, the communist era and Velvet Revolution. Short presentations.

13. Class Excursion

Dec 8, Prague

Olšany cemetery or Vyšehrad TBD

14. Final session

Dec 15, Classroom

Final test and presentations. Prague Experience homework 2 DUE!
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