History of Art

Programme

 

  1. Introduction: The Arts in the Portuguese territory before nationality

(2 hours)

1.1  Late Antique Art, Early Christian Art and the Al-Andalus Art accomplishments.

 

  1. The Arts and the new Kingdom (2 hours):

The Romanesque and the consolidation of the Portuguese monarchy and

territorial integration. Warriors, monks and noblemen.

2.1  The Architecture and its main programmes.

 

  1. The Gothic (6 hours)

3.1 Cathedrals, Monasteries and Cloisters

3.2 Sculpture highlights

3.3 Tour: voras Cathedral and S. Francisco Church.

3.4 Painting: becoming Nuno Gonalves

 

  1. The Portuguese Art in the beginnings of worldwide European Expansion (4 hours)

4.1  Late Gothic, the mudejarismo and the early influence of Italian formal Classicism.

4.2  The Emanueline period and its works.

4.3  Sculpture and decorative Arts: ornament in the Emanueline context and its specificity.

4.4  Tour: The route of the Emanueline in vora and its surroundings.

 

  1. The Portuguese School of Painting in 15th and 16th Centuries

(2 hours):

Francisco Henriques, Gro Vasco and Francisco de Holanda.

 

  1. Art and the Empire up to the early 17th Century (5 hours):

Renaissance, Mannerism and the Portuguese Plain Architecture

6.1  Tour: The Churches of Santo Anto and Nossa Senhora da Graa, and the Esprito Santo College complex (the old University building).

 

  1. The Portuguese Baroque Art (5 hours).

7.1  The new Architecture cycles of late 17th and first half of 18th Centuries.

7.2  The tradition of tilery decorative art.

7.3  The carved woodwork art.

7.4  From painted ceiling art work to major painting attempts.

 

  1. Before and after the 1755 Earthquake (2 hours):

The Age of Marquis de Pombal and the Lisbon Reconstruction.

 

  1. The Arts in the 19th and 20th Century Portugal  (2 hours):

Between tradition and modernity – a General survey.

 

 

 

Main references:

John B. BURY – Architecture, in Portugal and Brasil na Introduction. Oxford:

1953.

Jos Manuel FERNANDES – Architecture. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional – 

Casa da Moeda, 1991.

     Jos-Augusto FRANA, Jos C. Vieira da SILVA, Jos Fernandes

               PEREIRA et al. – Portugal. The Dictionary of Art. New York:

    Grove, 1996, vol. 25, pp. 287-320

George HUBLER – Portuguese Plain Architecture between Spices and

Diamonds (1521-1726). Middletown: 1972.

George KUBLER and Martin SORIA – Art and Architecture in Spain and

Portugal and their American Dominions, Harmonds-Worth, 1959.

Maria Adelaide MIRANDA, Vtor SERRO, Jos Alberto MACHADO –

History of Plastic Arts. Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional – Casa da Moeda,

1991.

Paulo PEREIRA – 2000 Years of Art in Portugal. Lisboa: Temas e Debates,

1999.

Robert SMITH – The Art of Portugal, 1500-1800. London: Weindenfeld and

Nicolson, 1968.

 

 

 

Manuel Soares do Patrocnio

Paulo Simes Rodrigues