6 ECTS credits
150 h study time
Offer 2 with catalog number 1020917BER for all students in the 1st semester at a (B) Bachelor - advanced level.
This lecture course surveys the European visual arts from the Late Middle Ages to Early modern times. Artworks testify of courtly splendor, devotion and wars and religion, knowledge explosion and New Worlds. Given the wide coverage in time and space (Europe, 13th-17th centuries), we will discuss only a selection of what is traditionally called Late Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Art. For pedagogical purposes, the overview is structured chronologically, but the canon of major artists is embedded in geographical and thematic sections to enable a more contextual approach.
Digital course materiaal (mandatory): powerpoint presentations uploaded weekly on Canvas platform, pdfs of reading materials.
Handbooks (optional):
Hugh Honour & John Fleming, Algemene Kunstgeschiedenis
Koenraad Jonckheere, Another history of art. 2500 jaar Europese kunstgeschiedenis
Stephanie Porras, Art of the Northern Renaissance. Courts, Commerce and Devotion
Stepen Campbell & Michael Cole, A New History of Italian Renaissance Art
To successfully complete the course, the student will have to be able to
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 70% of the final mark.
SELF Paper determines 30% of the final mark.
Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
Within the SELF Paper category, the following assignments need to be completed:
The student will be assessed for 30% during the semester on a museum assignment with a short paper (max. 1500 words), and for the remaining 70 % during an oral examination. Use of generative AI to support the paper is allowed on the condition that it is used responsibly and in all transparency. The examination will consists of questions based on image recognition (knowledge: identify and situate an artwork in time and space, analyze style, medium, technique, meaning, function and context) and more diachronically/thematic questions (reasoning).
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Bachelor of Philosophy and Moral Sciences: default (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of History: Minor Minor Human Sciences (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of History: minor Social Sciences (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Art Studies and Archaeology: Profile Profile Art Studies and Archaeology (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Art Studies and Archaeology: Profile Profile Archaeological Science (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: German-French (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: French-Italian (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: French-Spanish (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Dutch-English (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Dutch-French (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Dutch-Italian (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Dutch-Spanish (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Dutch-German (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Spanish-Italian (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Italian-German (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: German-Spanish (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: English-German (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: English-French (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: English-Italian (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: English-Spanish (only offered in Dutch)
Bridging Programme Master of Arts in Art Studies and Archaeology: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)
Preparatory Programme Master of Arts in Art Studies and Archaeology: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)