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Prague Art and Architecture - ART131/3 Fall 2025
Course
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Marek Cerveny
Lessons
Here is the course outline:
1. Introduction. Chronology
Sep 2, Classroom, Lesser Town
Introduction, syllabus, chronology |
2. Prehistory of Prague
Sep 9, Prague, Roztoky
Possible excursion to ARCHEVITA Short presentation. |
3. Romanesque and Gothic Prague
Sep 16, Prague Castle
Excursion to Prague Castle - examples of medieval architecture - Basilica of St. George, Cathedral of St. Vitus, Wladislas Hall. Short presentation |
4. Gothic Art, Devotional Art and the Bohemian Reformation + Introduction to Christian iconography
Sep 23, Old Town
Excursion to St. Agnes Convent (National Gallery) and Old Town Short presentation. |
5. Renaissance Prague; 1526-1620
Sep 30, Prague Castle and Lesser Town
Excursion Prague Castle Gardens and Wallenstein Garden. Short presentation. Museum Report 1 due! |
6. Baroque art and architecture I(1611 - 1790)
Oct 7, Hradčany, Lesser Town
Excursion to Strahov Monastery, Vrtba Garden, Our Lady Victorious, Charles Bridge Short presentation. |
7. Baroque art and architecture II(1620 - 1780)
Oct 14
Excursion to Troja Chateau Short presentation. |
8. Introduction to modern iconography
Oct 21, New Town
Excursion to New Town Museum Report 2 due |
9. Historicism: Classicism, Romanticism and the Czech National Revival (1780 - 1900)
Nov 4, Vyšehrad, New Town
Excursion to Vyšehrad Castle, examples of Eclectic architecture, National Revial Short presentation. |
10. Modernism 1: Early 20th-century architecture, Art nouveau, Cubism and Functionalism (1900 - 1948)
Nov 11, New Town
Excursion: architectural sites around the New Town, Municipal house Short presentation. |
11. Modernism 2: Early 20th century art: František Kupka and Czech Avant-garde, (1900 - 1948)
Nov 18
Excursion to National Gallery - Veletržni Palace Short presentation. |
12. Socialist Era (1948-1989)
Nov 25, New Town
Excursion to War Memorial and sites connected to the communist era and Velvet Revolution. Short presentations. |
13. Class Excursion
Dec 2
Olšany |
14. Final session
Dec 9, Classroom
Final test and presentations. Final Report due. |