The lecture course is structured around a proprietary project, with multimedia presentations covering the systematic course of the given subject

Passing the entrance exam

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 sites (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 Kingdoms.
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 regarding 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 on 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 al-Rashid. Ottonian art.
18. The beginnings of Romanesque art and pilgrimage churches.
19. European centres of Romanesque art: relationships between architecture and sculpture.
20. Gothic architecture in Europe.
21. Gothic painting.
22. The Proto-Renaissance in Italy and the work of Giotto.
23. The development 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. Netherlandish painting in the 15th century.
25. Florence: Brunelleschi, Ghiberti, Donatello, and Renaissance art theory.
26. Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael.
27. Rome and the role of papal patronage: Bramante and the rebuilding of St. Peter's Basilica.
28. Albrecht Dürer.
29. Semester 1 assessment / course credit.
30. Semester 2 examination.

Assessment of knowledge and skills regarding basic concepts of art history from Prehistory to the Renaissance, as well as the understanding of early art within a contemporary context.
The maximum number of student absences allowed in one semester is three.
The grading scale is determined by the scoring system of the Faculty of Management of Visual Culture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.

Passed the final exam for the course

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