Programme

• Bachelor's degree programme in Architecture (01.09.2006)
• Bachelor's degree programme in Architecture (01.09.2008)

Lecturer
Architekt Alberto Alessi

Module

• Geschichte, Theorie und Gestaltung II

Further courses of module

• Visual Arts 2
• Introduction to Academic Writing
• Model Building
• Multimedia 2

Content
Fine arts from early renaissance to the present.

• Composition of the pictorial space in Italian Trecento paintings exemplified by works of Giotto and Duccio di Buoninsegna and compared to the Byzantine tradition.
• Development of the linear perspective in Florentine Quattrocento is explained through works of Brunelleschi and their influence on renaissance painting exemplified by Masaccio's fresco at the Trinitá. Illustrating alternative perspectives of painting through the works of Piero della Francesca. Introduction to Trattatistica and the significance of Leon Battista Alberti and the humanists.
• Applying the linear perspective in art and architecture of the Italian Quattrocento and Cinquecento demonstrated by the works of Brunelleschi, Bramante and Michelangelo.
• Leonardo, Raffaello and Michelangelo - the oeuvre of the three grand masters and their influence on subsequent generations of artists. The relevance of emerging art and architectural history introduced through Vasari's 'vite'.
• Basic principles of modern art exemplified by works of Caravaggio, Rubens, El Greco and the landscape painters.
• Abstraction of the image emerging during impressionism up to photo and hyperrealism.
• Influence of fine arts on architectural techniques and urbanism of early modernism to the present.

Aims
This course helps to gain understanding of the development of art from early renaissance to the present. Notions of space since the 13th century help to illustrate different art styles within fine arts and architecture. Political, economic and philosophical influences are highlighted and placed in an integrative historical context. The emergence of the profession of artists and architects, their self-awareness and attitude, help to understand the role of artists and architects in the present.

Learning Outcomes
At the end of the course each student should have the ability to demonstrate and/or work with:

• familiarity with the basic foundation of art history from the 14th century to the present.
• the ability to identify and characterize the most relevant artistic criteria of that era by means of canonical examples and place them in a collective historical context.
• the ability to prepare well-structured lecture notes and to expand further on acquired skills by using specialized literature.
• familiarity with using the internet as a resource to studying art.
• the ability to describe canonical examples through images and explain their historical relevance.
• understanding of art as part of the cultural-historical process that is reinterpreted and redesigned by each period and generation.

Methods
Lectures

Requirements
The modules of the Bachelor's program in architecture are structured consecutively (they build on each other).

• It is recommended to take the module Theory I prior to enrolling this course.

Literature

• Virtual (Internet-based) art collections as sources to describe works and terminology.

Assessment
The course has to be passed with a sufficient grade (minimum grade of 4.0).
The module grade will be determined from the weighted average of the single course grades:

Art History 1 33%
Visual Arts 2 33%
Model Building 33%