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.

Semester
1st semester
Enrollment based on exam contract
Possible
Grading method
Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
Can retake in second session
Yes
Taught in
Dutch
Faculty
Faculty of Languages & Humanities
Department
History, Archaeology, Arts, Philosophy and Ethics
Educational team
Tine Meganck (course titular)
Activities and contact hours
26 contact hours Lecture
130 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
Course Content

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.

Course material
Practical course material (Required) : Eigen lesnotities te nemen door de studenten. Ondersteunende en aanvullende literatuur wordt opgegeven.
Digital course material (Required) : Gedigitaliseerde kopie van het beeldmateriaal wordt waar mogelijke ter beschikking gesteld., Canvas
Additional info

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

Learning Outcomes

General competencies

To successfully complete the course, the student will have to be able to

  • extract the key ideas delivered in the lectures
  • identify artworks seen during the lectures and build up a visual repertory
  • describe these artworks (style, material, technique), discuss their meaning and iconography and situate artworks in their historical context
  • demonstrate awareness of divergent interpretations and methods to study these artworks
  • become acquainted with primary and secondary written and visual sources
  • present coherent arguments in written work, and gain experience in independent research 

Grading

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:

  • examen mondeling with a relative weight of 70 which comprises 70% of the final mark.

    Note: Mondeling examen met schriftelijke voorbereiding (tenzij het mondeling examen online plaatsvindt)

Within the SELF Paper category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • paper with a relative weight of 30 which comprises 30% of the final mark.

    Note: Museumopdracht met kort paper (max 1500 woorden)

Additional info regarding evaluation

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).

  • The exam is oral or, in case of unforseen circumstances, online oral  
  • Second session is a new exam; the results from the first session for the aspect SELF (paper) can be transferred to the second session.
  • Non-fulfilment of the aspect SELF (paper) may lead to an overall result of “absent” on the entire course
  • No results can be transferred to the next academic year.
Allowed unsatisfactory mark
The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context

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)