Course: History of Jewelry

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Course title History of Jewelry
Course code KTD/ODSP1
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Vernerová Volná Tereza, MgA. Mgr.
Course content
1. Introduction to the study - jewelry and work made of precious metals in the context of the development of artistic and craft creation, chronology and styles, centers and personalities and their contribution. Terminology - secular and church small objects, clothing accessories. 2. Metals and techniques in jewelry making, hallmarking, glyptics and gemology, restoration and conservation of metals and jewelry. Prehistoric jewelry, magical and votive function of jewelry. 3. Jewelry and goldsmithing in antiquity - Egypt, Mesopotamia, ancient culture and its heritage - Greece, Rome and the beginnings of Byzantium. 4. Jewelry and metal in the early Middle Ages - the period of migration of peoples, Germans and Slavs. 5. Jewelry and goldsmithing of Romanesque and Gothic Europe: monastic and court workshops; knightly culture of the early Gothic, high Gothic, Burgundian-Flemish jewelry and late Gothic. 6. Jewelry in the Renaissance and Mannerism. 7. Jewelry and goldsmithing of the Baroque and Rococo. 8. Jewelry and goldsmithing from Classicism to Biedermeier, historicizing styles of the 19th century. 9. Art Nouveau jewelry art in Europe and in Bohemia. 10. Jewelry in the era of decorativism and functionalism. 11. Costume jewelry in Bohemia - Jablonec industry and vocational schools. 12. Excursion 1 13. Excursion 2

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture supplemented with a discussion, E-learning, Multimedia supported teaching, Students' portfolio, One-to-One tutorial, Students' self-study, Field trip
  • Contact hours - 52 hours per semester
  • Attendance on a field trip (number of real hours - maximum 8h/day) - 8 hours per semester
  • Undergraduate study programme term essay (20-40) - 20 hours per semester
  • Preparation for an examination (30-60) - 30 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
acquire basic knowledge of general history and art history at the level of general secondary education, basic orientation in the history of artistic crafts
Skills
show interest in one's own theoretical learning in relation to issues that can be used in one's own practice as a source of inspiration, work with professional literature, critically approach working with sources, work with text
Competences
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learning outcomes
Knowledge
historical context of the production and presentation of jewelry and associated disciplines, metal processing technologies and jewelry materials, production centers, the most important producers and customers
Skills
characterize individual historical periods and their relationship to jewelry, classification of objects according to form and technological processing to historical style, orientation in the historical context of the field, interdisciplinary orientation in the connection of jewelry to related disciplines
Competences
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N/A
teaching methods
Knowledge
Lecture
Lecture supplemented with a discussion
Interactive lecture
Field trip
Skills
Collaborative instruction
Textual studies
Competences
Discussion
Students' portfolio
assessment methods
Knowledge
Oral exam
Skills
Individual presentation at a seminar
Competences
Oral exam
Recommended literature
  • Adamson, Glenn (ed.). The craft reader. Oxford: Berg, 2010. ISBN 978-1-84788-303-2.
  • Adamson, Glenn. The Invention of Craft. London: Bloomsbury, 2018. ISBN 978-1-3500-8809-2.
  • Adamson, Glenn. Thinking through craft. Oxford. 2007.
  • Besten, Liesbeth den. On jewellery: a compendium of international contemporary art jewellery. Stuttgart: Arnoldsche Art Publisher, 2012. ISBN 978-3-89790-349-4.
  • Evans, Joan. A history of jewellery 1100-1870. London: Faber and Faber, 1970. ISBN 0-571-04693-2.
  • Holcomb, Melanie (ed.). Jewelry: The Body Transformed. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018. ISBN 978-1-5883-9650-1.
  • Knobloch, Iva,; Vondráček, Radim. Design v českých zemích 1900 - 2000 : instituce moderního designu. Vydání 1. 2016. ISBN 978-80-200-2612-5.
  • Křížová, Alena. Šperk od antiky po současnost. Vydání první. 2015. ISBN 978-80-7422-311-2.
  • Matějovič, Petja. Šperk - forma - obsah. Praha: Uměleckoprůmyslové museum v Praze, 2023. ISBN 978-80-7101-226-9.
  • Nový, Petr. Jablonecká bižuterie. Praha: Grada, 2008. ISBN 978-80-247-2250-4.
  • Stehlíková, Dana. Encyklopedie českého zlatnictví, stříbrnictví a klenotnictví. Praha: Libri, 2003. ISBN 80-85983-90-7.
  • Unger, Marjan. Jewellery in Context. Stuttgart. 2019.


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