Old Masters

6 ECTS credits
150 h study time

Offer 2 with catalog number 1020917BER for all students in the 1st semester at a (B) Bachelor - advanced level.

Semester

1st semester

Enrollment based on exam contract

Possible

Grading method

Grading (scale from 0 to 20)

Can retake in second session

Yes

Enrollment Requirements

Om dit vak te kunnen registreren moet je minstens 30 stp. behaald hebben in de bachelor. Als je een verkort programma volgt, kan je dit vak zo opnemen.

Taught in

Dutch

Faculty

Faculty of Languages & Humanities

Department

History, Archaeology, Arts, Philosophy and Ethics

Educational team

Tine Meganck
Marlise Rijks (course titular)

Activities and contact hours

26 contact hours Lecture
130 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals

Course Content

This lecture course surveys the European visual arts from the Late Middle Ages to Early modern times. Artworks testify of courtly splendor, devotion and wars and religion, knowledge explosion and New Worlds. Given the wide coverage in time and space (Europe, 13th-17th centuries), we will discuss only a selection of what is traditionally called Late Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Art. For pedagogical purposes, the overview is structured chronologically, but the canon of major artists is embedded in geographical and thematic sections to enable a more contextual approach.

Course material

Practical course material (Required) : Eigen lesnotities te nemen door de studenten. Ondersteunende en aanvullende literatuur wordt opgegeven.
Digital course material (Required) : Gedigitaliseerde kopie van het beeldmateriaal wordt waar mogelijke ter beschikking gesteld., Canvas

Additional info

Digital course materiaal: powerpoint presentations uploaded weekly on Canvas platform

Handbooks (optional)

Stephen J. Campbell and Michael W. Cole, A New History of Italian Renaissance Art. Second Edition (Thames & Hudson, 2017)
Stephanie Porras, Art of the Northern Renaissance. Courts, Commerce and Devotion (Laurence King Publishing, 2018)

Learning Outcomes

General competencies

To successfully complete the course, the student will have to be able to

extract the key ideas delivered in the lectures
identify artworks seen during the lectures and build up a visual repertory
describe these artworks (style, material, technique), discuss their meaning and iconography and situate artworks in their historical context
demonstrate awareness of divergent interpretations and methods to study these artworks
become acquainted with primary and secondary written and visual sources
present coherent arguments in written work, and gain experience in independent research

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 70% of the final mark.
SELF Paper determines 30% of the final mark.

Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Oral Examination with a relative weight of 70 which comprises 70% of the final mark.

Note: Oral examination (with written preparation, unless online)

Within the SELF Paper category, the following assignments need to be completed:

paper with a relative weight of 30 which comprises 30% of the final mark.

Note: Museum task with short paper (max 1500 words)

Additional info regarding evaluation

The student will be assessed for 30% during the semester on a museum assignment with a short paper (max. 1500 words), and for the remaining 70 % during an oral examination. There will be questions based on image recognition (knowledge: identify and situate an artwork in time and space, analyze style, medium, technique, meaning, function and context) and more diachronically/thematic questions (reasoning).

The exam is oral with written preparation, or, in case of lockdown, online oral without written preparation
Second session is a new exam; the results from the first session for the aspect SELF (paper) can be transferred to the second session.
Non-fulfilment of the aspect SELF (paper) may lead to an overall result of “absent” on the entire course
No results can be transferred to the next academic year.

Allowed unsatisfactory mark

The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context