THE UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGH

DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2023/2024

Timetable information in the Course Catalogue may be subject to change.

University Homepage
DRPS Homepage
DRPS Search
DRPS Contact
DRPS : Course Catalogue : Edinburgh College of Art : History of Art

Undergraduate Course: Poverty and Patronage: Francis, Dominic and the Arts (HIAR10069)

Course Outline
SchoolEdinburgh College of Art CollegeCollege of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThe 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.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Students MUST have passed: History of Art 2 (HIAR08012) OR Architectural History 2A (ARHI08002) AND Architectural History 2B (ARHI08003)
Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesThis course is not open to exchange and visiting students.
High Demand Course? Yes
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Gain an in-depth 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.
  2. Gain an in-depth 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.
  3. Gain an in-depth understanding of the relationships between visual and written evidence.
  4. Learn to critically engage with modern scholarship and with different historiographical and methodological approaches.
  5. Gain an ability to undertake close visual analysis and will development the appropriate analytical skills to identify/date/attribute buildings and works of art .
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserDr Amelia Hope Jones
Tel:
Email:
Course secretaryMrs Sue Cavanagh
Tel: (0131 6)51 1460
Email:
Navigation
Help & Information
Home
Introduction
Glossary
Search DPTs and Courses
Regulations
Regulations
Degree Programmes
Introduction
Browse DPTs
Courses
Introduction
Humanities and Social Science
Science and Engineering
Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Other Information
Combined Course Timetable
Prospectuses
Important Information