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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
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, New Town
Excursion to New Town Prague Experience homework 1 DUE! |
9. Historicism: Classicism, Romanticism and the Czech National Revival (1780 - 1900)
Nov 3, 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 10, 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 24
Excursion to National Museum or Kampa Museum Short presentation. |
12. Socialist Era (1948-1989)
Dec 1, New Town
Excursion to sites connected with WW2, the communist era and Velvet Revolution. Short presentations. |
13. Class Excursion
Dec 8
Olšany cemetery |
14. Final session
Dec 15, Classroom
Final test and presentations. Prague Experience homework 2 DUE! |