History of Portuguese Art (16th - 18th centuries) [8765]
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António Manuel da Rocha Pimentel Institute: IHA

Overview

The programme of this discipline aims at providing a wide perspective of Portuguese art between Renaissance and Rococo.

Learning outcomes

Reference bibliography

  • CARVALHO, Ayres de, D. João V e a arte do seu tempo, Lisboa, 1963, 2 vol.
  • CORREIA, José Eduardo Horta, Arquitectura Portuguesa. Renascimento, Maneirismo, Estilo Chão, Lisboa, Editorial Presença, 1991
  • KUBLER, George, A Arquitectura Portuguesa Chã. Entre as especiarias e os diamantes, 1521-1706, trad. port., Lisboa, Vega, 1988
  • PEREIRA, Paulo (dir. de), História da Arte Portuguesa, Lisboa, Círculo de Leitores, 1995 (vol. II e III).
  • PIMENTEL, António Filipe, Arquitectura e Poder, o Real Edifício de Mafra, Coimbra, Instituto de História da Arte, Faculdade de Letras, 1992
  • FRANÇA, José-Augusto, Lisboa Pombalina e o Iluminismo, Lisboa, Bertrand, 1987.
  • SALDANHA, Nuno (coord.), Joanni V Magnifico, Lisboa, 1994, Cat.
  • SMITH, Robert C., André Soares, arquitecto do Minho, Lisboa, 1973
  • SMITH, Robert C., Frei Cipriano da Cruz, escultor de Tibães, Porto, Livraria Civilização, 1968
  • (v.v. a.a.) História da Arte em Portugal, Lisboa, Alfa, 1986 (vol. 5, 6, 7, 8 e 9)
  • NOTA: Uma bibliografia completa de apoio da cadeira será fornecida aos alunos no início do ano.
  • English:
  • The complete bibliography will be provided to the students in the beginning of the year.

Specific competences

  • Encompassing information about the past in general, with special focus on European and Portuguese History, with wide chronological scope [1]

Generic competences

  • Quality in oral and written expression [3]
  • Initiative [6]

Assessment

The classes are theoretical-practical and the assessment is, in principle, periodic, in accordance to the usual system. Nonetheless, if the students agree to it, continuous assessment forms may be implemented.

Course Contents

A. RENAISSANCE

1. ARCHITECTURE

1.1. The diffusion of Humanism

1.2. The Manueline rupture and the emergence of Renaissance grammar

1.3. The role of “microarchitectures”. Patrons and artists.

1.4. The new spatiality and the “experimental Renaissance”

1.5. The High Renaissance and the aesthetic(s) of power(s)

2. SCULPTURE

2.1. Nicolau de Chanterenne

2.2. Filipe Hodart

2.3. João de Ruão

3. PAINTING

3.1. Vasco Fernandes

3.2. Cristovão de Figueiredo

3.3. Gregório Lopes

B. MANNERISM AND “CHÃO” STYLE

1. ARCHITECTURE

1.1. The crisis of power and the “ideological integrism”

1.2. The “chão” style, an aesthetics of resistance

1.3. The Dynastic Union and the Philippine cycle

1.4. The architecture of the Religious Orders

2. SCULPTURE

2.1. The façade-retable: a restorationist art

3. PAINTING

3.1. A pioneer: Francisco de Holanda

3.2. The Court portrait

3.3. Religious painting and e the tridentine message

C. THE FIRST BAROQUE

1. ARCHITECTURE

1.1. The “long 17th century”

1.2. The Architecture of Restoration

1.3. The rehabilitation of the centralized space

1.4. João Antunes

2. SCULPTURE

2.1. The retables in the “national style” and the “gold churches”

2.2. Fr. Cipriano da Cruz

2.3. Claude de Laprade

3. PAINTING

3.1. The tenebrism

3.2. The iconic portrait

3.3. Josefa de Óbidos and the triumph of the senses

D. THE JOANINE BAROQUE

1. ARCHITECTURE

1.1. The “Joanine revolution”

1.2. Ludovice and the “regal architecture”. The grand works.

1.3. Mafra: the “Royal Edifice”

1.4. The Baroque in the North: Nicolau Nasoni

2. SCULPTURE

2.1. The possible import: from Bellini to Giusti

2. 2. The sculpture in Mafra

3. PAINTING

3.1. The Court painters: Quillard and Duprà

3.2. The Italianisation of painting: André Gonçalves and Vieira Lusitano

3.3. The import of the Italian painting

E. “POMBALISM” AND ROCOCO

1. ARCHITECTURE

1.1. Mateus Vicente and the Court architecture

1.2. The earthquake(s) and the architecture of the rebuilding

1.3. The University reform and the architecture of the “New Foundation”

1.4. The Alto Minho and the architecture of André Soares

2. SCULPTURE

2.1. Machado de Castro

3. PAINTING

3.1. Pedro Alexandrino de Carvalho

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