Course: History of Jewellery

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Course title History of Jewellery
Course code KTD/ODSP
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)
  • Brozman Dušan, M.A.
  • Matějovič Petja, PhDr. Ph.D.
  • Spiwoková Světlana, PhDr.
Course content
1. Introduction to the study - jewelry and objects made of precious metals in the context of development of arts & crafts, chronology and styles, centers and personalities and their contributions. 2. Metals and techniques of creating jewelry, nomenclature and characteristics of secular and ecclesiastical small items of clothing and accessories, hallmarking, glyptics and gemology, restoration and conservation of metals and jewels. 3. Jewelry and goldsmith in Antiquity - Egypt, Mesopotamia, Ancient culture and its heritage - Greece, Rome and Byzantine origins. 4. Jewelry and metal in the early Middle Ages - the period of migrations, Germans and Slavs. 5. Jewelry and goldsmithery in Romanesque and Gothic Europe: monastic and courtly workshops; Knight Culture and Early Gothic, High Gothic, Burgundy and Flemish jewelry and late Gothic. 6. Jewelry during the Renaissance and Mannerism. 7. Jewelry and goldsmithery in Baroque and Rococo. 8. Jewelry and goldsmithery from the Classical period to Biedermeier, historical styles of the 19th century. 9. Jewelry in Art Nouveau in Europe and Bohemia. 10. Jewelry in the times of decorativism and functionalism. 11. Current jewelry on the international scene, jewelry symposiums in Turnov 1984 - 2008. 12. Jewelry in Bohemia - Jablonec industry and professional schools. The craft of design. 13. Field trip.

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
to equip basic knowledge of general history and art history at the level of general secondary education, to equip the knowledge of metal processing technology at the level of vocational secondary education, at a basic level, to compare and analyze different artistic expressions in terms of aesthetic, semiotic and technical, to specify basic knowledge of supporting arts disciplines to demonstrate basic knowledge of art and style canons in the context of the development of artistic and applied arts in the context of general history
Skills
to work systematically on either seminar work or own learning, to show interest in learning of theory of problematics usable in own practical work as an inspiration, to use basic expresive means and options of illustration and its different forms, to work independently and activelly and flexibly react to evaluating commentary of the teacher,
Competences
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learning outcomes
Knowledge
the distinction of artistic styles and expressions in different stages of development, to name the basic types of jewelery and precious metal products in individual historical periods, include chronologically jewelry according to the material used and the nature of its processing, classify chronologically jewelery products according to the technique and decoration motifs, to list important areas and centers for the development of jewelery creation, to list important personalities and producers in the various phases of the development of arts and crafts processing of precious metals and jewelery, to describe the characteristics of the jewelery art in individual style stages,
Skills
identify developmental stages of illustrative art, to include events, artistic trends and personalities in the timeline of historical development, to define and name elements, styles, methods and techniques in each developmental stage, to bring special groups of jewelery products out of history, to show on the examples the characteristics of jewelery making from centers in Europe, to assess the influence of historical development on contemporary jewelery, to formulate in his own words an opinion on the current development of jewelery art
Competences
N/A
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N/A
teaching methods
Knowledge
Lecture
Lecture with a video analysis
Field trip
Multimedia supported teaching
Self-study of literature
Skills
Individual study
One-to-One tutorial
Competences
Discussion
assessment methods
Knowledge
Individual presentation at a seminar
Continuous assessment
Combined exam
Skills
Seminar work
Competences
Individual presentation at a seminar
Recommended literature
  • monografie osobností, katalogy specializovaných sbírek a katalogy výstav.
  • Puncovní tabulky, Praha 2003.
  • Benda, Klement. Dějiny českého výtvarného umění. Díl 1., část 1., Od počátků do konce středověku. Praha : Academia, 1984.
  • Blažíček, Oldřich J. Dějiny českého výtvarného umění. Díl 2., část 2., Od počátků renesance do závěru baroka. Praha : Academia, 1989. ISBN 80-200-0069-0.
  • Bouška, Vladimír; Kouřimský, Jiří. Atlas drahých kamenů : [doplň. učeb. pomůcka přírodověd. vyučování na školách 1. a 2. cyklu]. Praha : SPN, 1980.
  • Brehpohl, E. Theophilus Presbyter und das mittelalterliche Kunsthandwerk. Köln 1999 (2 díly).
  • Ďuďa, R.; Rejl, L. Svět drahých kamenů, Praha 2004.
  • Fajt, Jiří. Karel IV., císař z Boží milosti : kultura a umění za vlády Lucemburků 1310-1437. Vyd. 1. Praha : Academia, 2006. ISBN 80-200-1399-7.
  • Filip, Jan. Umělecké řemeslo v pravěku. Praha : Společnost přátel starožitností, 1941.
  • Fučíková, Eliška; Bukovinská, Beket; Muchka, Ivan. Umění na dvoře Rudolfa II.. Praha : Aventinum, 1991. ISBN 80-85277-04-2.
  • Hase-Schmundt, U. Jugendstil Schmuck. Die europäische Zentren, von 1895 bis 1915. München 1998.
  • Křížová, Alena. Proměny českého šperku na konci 20. století. Vyd. 1. Praha : Academia, 2002. ISBN 80-200-0920-5.
  • Mrázek, Ivan. Drahé kameny ve středověku Moravy a Slezska. Brno : Moravské zemské muzeum, 2000. ISBN 80-7028-160-X.
  • Newman, A. Dictionnary of Jewellry, London 1981 (2. vyd. 1990).
  • Riley, Noël (ed.). Dějiny užitého umění : vývoj užitého umění a stylistických prvků od renesance do postmoderní doby. Praha : Slovart, 2004. ISBN 80-7209-549-8.
  • Stehlíková, Dana. Encyklopedie českého zlatnictví, stříbrnictví a klenotnictví. Praha : Libri, 2003. ISBN 80-85983-90-7.
  • Vilímková, M. Egyptské klenotnictví, Praha 1969.
  • Vokáčová, V. Současný šperk, Praha 1979.


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