ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Center Faculty of Geography and History
Call: First Semester
Teaching: Sin Docencia (En Extinción)
Enrolment: No Matriculable (Sólo Planes en Extinción)
The student will know and understand:
1 - The characteristics, functions and basic lines of art between Late Roman times and the 10th century.
2 - The different formal and visual languages.
3 - The different artistic techniques
4 - The most important sources, epochs, periods and artistic and architectural manifestations.
The beginnings of Christianity and the adaptation of art to serve the new faith. The catacombs. Figurative arts at the beginning of Christianity: catacomb wall paintings. Post-Constantinian mosaics.
From the domus ecclesiae to the first Christian temples. The basilica. The martyria and baptisteries. From St. Peter's in the Vatican to the Anastasis in Jerusalem.
Early Christian sculpture. Sarcophagi.
The sarcophagus of Junius Basso.
A visual culture at the service of the new Byzantine Empire. From the foundation of Constantinople to the development of artistic manifestations in Justinian's time.
Mosaics in Justinian's Ravenna.
The Second and Third Golden Ages of Byzantine architecture. From the Greek monasteries to the Russian development in the 14th and 15th centuries. Siculo-Norman art.
The great dispute over images in Byzantium: the Iconoclastic Quarrel.
The iconographic postulates derived from the Iconoclastic Quarrel. Mural painting and mosaics. Some of the most outstanding examples.
The birth of a new religion: Islam. The formation of the Islamic empire. Al-Andalus.
Introduction to Islamic art. Architectural typologies and figurative motifs. Some examples.
The fall of the Western Roman Empire. The origins of the medieval Christian kingdoms.
Artistic manifestations under the Ostrogoths, Lombards and Merovingians. Introduction to art in Hispania under Visigothic rule.
Introduction to early Christian and Suevician Gallaecia.
Hispano-Visigothic art in the Iberian Peninsula.
The settlement and development of Christianity in Ireland and the British Isles. From St. Patrick to Bede the Venerable.
The Atlantic Art of Ireland, the British Isles and the Vikings.
Charlemagne and the Carolingian Renovatio: between Rome and Byzantium.
Pre-Romanesque Carolingian Art. Palatine and monastic architecture. Sculpture. Introduction to miniatures.
Carolingian miniature.
Ottonian Germanic Art. The prelude to the Romanesque.
The Shaping of the Christian Kingdoms of the North of the Iberian Peninsula. Beatus of Liébana.
Art under the Asturian kings: between tradition and innovation.
Introduction to the origins of Santiago de Compostela and its two pre-Romanesque basilicas.
10th century art in the Iberian Peninsula. From architectural novelties to the exaltation of the Apocalypse.
The miniature of the "beatos".
BASIC BIBLIOGRAPHY:
DICCIONARIO Enciclopédico de la Biblia. Barcelona 1993
DURLIAT,M.: Introducción al arte medieval en occidente. Madrid 1980
GERARD, A.M.: Diccionario de la Biblia. 1995
HISTORIA DEL ARTE MEDIEVAL (dir. J.V. García Mansilla; C. Mancho i Suárez; I. Ruiz de la Peña González), Valencia, 2012.´
HISTORIA DEL ARTE DE LA ALTA Y PLENA EDAD MEDIA (Monteira Arias, I.; Vidal Álvarez, S.; Alegre Carvajal, E.; Vallejo Triano, A.), Madrid, Editorial Universitaria Ramón Areces-UNED, 2014 (https://historiasdelarteuned.wordpress.com/category/historia-del-arte-e…)
JANSON,H.W.: Historia General del Arte. 2. La Edad Media. Madrid 1990
KOSTOF, S.: Historia de la arquitectura. Madrid 1988
OLAGUER FELIU,F.: El arte medieval hasta el año 1000. Madrid 1989
PEÑA GÓMEZ, Mª del Pilar de la: Manual básico de Historia del Arte (en línea: https://www3.unex.es/publicaciones/files/1562-Manual%20b%C3%A1sico%20de…)
RAMIREZ, J. (coord.) La Edad Media (vol. 2 de Historia del Arte.), Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 1996.
TUSELL GARCÍA, G.: Historia del arte de la Antigua Edad media. Madrid 2009
YARZA LUACES,J.: Historia del Arte Hispánico. II. La Edad Media. Madrid 1980
YARZA LUACES,J.: Arte y arquitectura en España. 500-1250. Madrid 19
COMPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY:
BANGO TORVISO, I.G.: Arte prerrománico hispano: el arte en la España cristiana de los siglos VI al XI (vol. VIII-II de Summa Artis), Madrid, 2001.
BECKWITH, J.: Arte paleocristiano y bizantino, Madrid, 1997.
BIFFI, I.: Atlas histórico de la Cultura Medieval, Madrid, 2007.
GRABAR, A.: Las vías de creación de la iconografía cristiana, Madrid, 1985.
KRAUTHEIMER, R.: Arquitectura paleocristiana y bizantina, Madrid, 1984.
NÚÑEZ RODRÍGUEZ, M.: Arquitectura prerrománica (Arte galega), Madrid, 1978.
WEBGRAPHY (on line):
https://historiasdelarteuned.wordpress.com/category/historia-del-arte-e…
https://www3.unex.es/publicaciones/files/1562-Manual%20b%C3%A1sico%20de…)
https://www.bibliotecadigsan.com/edad-media?fbclid=IwAR3U7LMsI7LmBbFqcf…
SPECIFIC COMPETENCES
The student will be able to:
1 - Use the most appropriate historiographical tools.
2 - Develop a scientific methodology specific to the History of Art.
3 - Acquire skills in the use of new technologies.
4 - Design a comprehensive project for the knowledge, protection and dissemination of cultural heritage.
5 - Become involved in the defence and conservation of cultural heritage.
TRANSVERSAL COMPETENCES
The student will be able to:
1 - Analyse and synthesise the knowledge acquired.
2 - Solve the professional questions that arise
3 - Maintain and increase knowledge of the profession.
IThe course has no teaching assigned in the 2025/26 academic year
- Personalised tutorials.
The final grade for the subject consists exclusively of a single written exam on the officially fixed date (100% of the final grade).
In cases of fraudulent performance of exercises or tests, the provisions of the Regulations for the evaluation of students' academic performance and review of qualifications shall apply.
All the hours corresponding to this subject will be for the student's personal work
This subject is closely related to History, Literature and early Christian sacred texts.
It is advisable to have a good command of other languages such as English and French in their written dimension, which will facilitate access to certain bibliography.
David Chao Castro
- Department
- History of Art
- Area
- History of Art
- Phone
- 881812595
- david.chao [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: Temporary PhD professor