Lecture course following a proprietary project, multimedia presentations covering the systematic course of the given subject

Passing the entrance exam

Passed final exam in the field of lectures

Assessment of the level of knowledge and skills (to acquire the basic issues of art history from Prehistoric times to the Renaissance, and to understand the functioning of early art in the context of contemporaneity).
The grading scale is defined by the scoring system in force at the Faculty of Visual Culture Management of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw

The programme covers the following topics:
1. What are art histories and does the artist need them? What narratives do they bring and what is their dependence on geographical and political contexts.
2. Prehistoric art - cave painting and figural art
3. Prehistoric art - architectural assumptions (Çatalhöyük, Göbekli Tepe).
4. Mesopotamia - Sumerian and Babylonian art.
5. Mesopotamia - Assyrian and Persian art.
6. Ancient Egypt - similarities and differences in the art of the Old, Middle and New Kingdom.
7. Ancient Egypt - the problem of ethnicity and geographical identity based on the analysis of Egyptian artworks.
8. Art of Crete - a contemporary understanding of the history of discovery and the formation of knowledge of Minoan culture.
9. Homer and Mycenaean art in contemporary archaeological research.
10. Ancient Greece - the archaic period.
11. Ancient Greece - the classical period.
12. The empire of Alexander the Great and Hellenistic art.
13. Etruscan architecture, painting and sculpture.
14. Ancient Rome - dependence and independence from Greek art.
15. Ancient Rome - the art of the Roman colonies.
16. Early Christian art. Byzantium as a continuation of the Roman Empire.
17. Carolingian art - Charlemagne and Harun ar-Rashid. Ottonian art.
18. The beginnings of Romanesque art. Churches of pilgrimage.
19. European centres of Romanesque art - relations between architecture and sculpture.
20. Gothic - architecture in Europe.
21. Gothic painting.
22. Proto-Renaissance in Italy. The work of Giotto.
23. Formation of art in Burgundy and the Netherlands at the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries (the Limburg brothers' works, Claus Sluter's sculpture).
24. Painting of the Netherlands in the 15th century.
25. Florence - Brunelleschi, Ghiberti, Donatello. Renaissance theory of art.
26. Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael.
27. Rome and the role of papal patronage - the rebuilding of St Peter's Basilica, Bramante.
28. Albrecht Dürer.
29. Credit - semester 1
30. Examination - semester 2.

The programme does not include obligatory literature used during the lectures.

Białostocki Jan, „Myśliciele, kronikarze i artyści o sztuce od starożytności do 1500 r.”, Gdańsk, słowo/obraz terytoria, 2003, ISBN 83-88560-97-2
Białostocki Jan, „Teoretycy, pisarze i artyści o sztuce 1500-1600”, Gdańsk, słowo/obraz terytoria, 2007, ISBN 978-83-7453-777-3
Białostocki Jan, „Sztuka cenniejsza niż złoto”, Wyd. 4, Warszawa, PWN, 2011, ISBN 978-83-01-14301-5
Gąssowski Jerzy, „Prahistoria sztuki”, Warszawa, Wydawnictwo TRIO, 2008, ISBN 978-83-7436-176-7
Hoffmann Thomas R., Huth Astryd C., „Renesans”, przeł. Janina Szymańska-Kumaniecka, Warszawa, Świat Książki, 2006, ISBN 978-83-7391-951-8
Kłosiewicz Olga, „Tajemnice sztuki. Prehistoria i starożytność”, Warszawa, Wydawnictwo RM, 2016, ISBN 978-83-9383-360-3
Kłosiewicz Olga, „Tajemnice sztuki. Sztuka przedromańska i romańska”, Warszawa, Wydawnictwo RM, 2017, ISBN 978-83-9383-361-0
Makowiecka Elżbieta, „Sztuka grecka”, Wyd. 2, Warszawa, WUW, 2021, ISBN 978-83-235-0214-2
Makowiecka Elżbieta, „Sztuka Rzymu. Od Augusta do Konstantyna”, Warszawa, WUW, 2021, ISBN 978-83-235-0494-8
Murray Linda, Murray Peter, „Sztuka renesansu”, przeł. Joanna Arszyńska, Anna Mosingiewicz, Wrocław, Wydawnictwo VIA, 1999, ISBN 83-86642-96-3

Darkened room, multimedia projector, computer with appropriate software (possibility to display films), speakers, microphone