Undergraduate Course: Poverty and Patronage: Francis, Dominic and the Arts (HIAR10069)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | History of Art |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | The Orders of Franciscans and Dominicans were the pre-eminent religious organizations of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Their dynamic growth was accompanied by an extraordinary burst of architectural and artistic patronage, which & on the one hand & contrasted strikingly with the ideas of poverty, mendicancy, and itinerant preaching of their founders & and on the other & reflected the Orders= institutional developments and relationship with the Papacy and the Universities. The course explores how architecture, frescoes, altarpieces, sculpture, stained glass, and goldsmithwork commissioned for or by the Mendicants in late medieval Italy expressed and reflected their ideologies, aspirations and activities. Particular emphasis will be given to the Mother Church of the Franciscans at Assisi, and the fresco cycles painted there by Cimabue, Giotto, and other leading artists of the time. Special attention will be also paid to the other great pilgrimage shrines, S. Domenico in Bologna and S. Antonio in Padua, and to S. Maria in Aracoeli, the Franciscan headquarters in Rome. Visits to the NGS may be required. |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | No |
Course Delivery Information
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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
- Understanding of function, use, content, meaning of, and response to, buildings and works of art in different media, and understanding of their historical and intellectual context
- Understanding of how visual art was used to express the ideologies, aspirations and activities of the patrons, and knowledge of how artistic representations changed over a period of a hundred years as a reflection of the growth and institutionalisation of the Orders
- Awareness of relationships between visual and written evidence
- Critical engagement with modern scholarship and with different historiographical and methodological approaches
- Ability to undertake close visual analysis and development of analytical skills to identify/date/attribute buildings and works of art
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Assessment Information
| 1 two hour examination paper (50%) and 1 extended essay of 2,500 words(50%) |
Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Claudia Bolgia
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Course secretary | Mrs Sue Cavanagh
Tel: (0131 6)51 1460
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