COURSE SYLLABUS: SPANISH ART HISTORY

Location: Granada, Spain

Partner Institution: University of Granada

Course Title: Spanish Art History (Historia del Arte en España)

Session: Summer (CILYC)

Instruction in: Spanish

Contact Hours: 22.5

Course Description

The goal of this course is the introduction and comprehension of the discipline of Spanish Art History. This is achieved through an historic-artistic overview of the principal artistic styles that define peculiar characteristics of Spanish Art. The richness and extension of Spanish Art make it necessary to delimitate the thematic blocks in correspondence with a Granadan cultural environment that permits, on one hand, a greater closeness to Spanish art, and on the other hand, the best possible assimilation of content and styles studied as priorities in the program.

Program

• The beginning of art. Cave paintings and megaliths.
• Art of the colonizations and Iberian sculpture.
• Introduction to Islamic Art.
• Spanish-Muslim art: Caliphate Cordoba and Almohade Sevilla.
• Spanish-Muslim art: Granada zirí and nazarí (I)
• Visit: Arab Baths (bañuelo), Alcaicería, Oratorio de la Madraza, and Corral del Carbón
• Spanish-Muslim art: Granada zirí and nazarí  (II)
• Visit: Palacios Reales de la Alhambra and Museo de Arte Hispano Musulmán
• General characteristics of Renaissance Art and the principal Granada examples (I)
• Visit: Capilla Real and museum
• General characteristics of Renaissance Art and the principal Granada examples (II)
• Visit: Puerta de las granadas, Palacio and Pilar de Carlos V, and Museo de Bellas Artes.
• Essential traits of baroque art and architecture. Velázquez.
• Alonso Cano. Granadan baroque architect, sculptor, and painter.
• Visit: Catedral de Granada
• Neoclassic Art: Juan de Villanueva and the Museo del Prado
• Francisco de Goya
• 19th and 20th century architecture: from history to modernity.
• Contemporary art: Dalí, Miró and Picasso

Activities

• There is a series of guided tours of monuments, museums, and urban spaces. All visits are related, directly, with the stylistic languages established in the epigraphs and thematic blocks of the program and whose most significant examples are shown using Granada as the example.

• The end product of these visits is a final paper that the student will submit. It should be 5 pages and the focus must be on one of the art forms studied (sculpture, painting, portraits, etc.). It should have an analysis and description of real-life examples in Granada of the art form studied.

Course Evaluation

The final grade is determined by the following criteria:

• Class attendance and participation: up to a maximum of 20%
• Homework assignments: up to a maximum of 20%
• Mid-term and final exams: 30% each exam.
• These exams consist in a written commentary of the slide shown in class.

Bibliography

• AA.VV. Historia del Arte, vols. 10, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 28, 31, 35, 38, 41, 42, 43, 47 y 50. Madrid: Historia 16, 1989.
• BUENDÍA, R. et al. Historia del Arte Hispánico, vols. I al VI. Madrid: Alhambra, 1979-1980.
• CALVO CASTELLÓN, A. Historia del Arte Español. Madrid: Edelsa, 1992.

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