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Instructors: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Vasiliki Tsamakda
Event type:
Practice class
Displayed in timetable as:
Ü CAByzKG
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
German
Min. | Max. participants:
- | -
Requirements / organisational issues:
<strong>Course Title:</strong><br /><br />„Observing and Describing”: Developing analytical observational skills by examining selected Byzantine Artefacts.<br /><br /><strong>Aim of the Course:</strong><br /><br />In order to understand, interpret and classify the material legacies of the medieval Byzantine Empire, observational skills, the recognition of visual structures and schemes, as well as the ability to verbally present and write a scientific text is required. What do artefacts tell us through their visual form? The aim of the course is to facilitate understanding of the selected objects from Late Antiquity and the Byzantine Middle Ages with regard to their communication structure and to describe, classify and date them with the help of scientific methods.<br /><br /><strong>Suggested bibliography:</strong><br /><br />· Asutay-Effenberger, N./Effenberger, A., Byzanz - Weltreich der Kunst, München 2017<br /><br />· Jensen, Robin M., Understanding Early Christian Art, London Routledge 2000<br /><br />· John Lowden, Early Christian and Byzantine Art Phaidon London 1997<br /><br />· Johannes G. Deckers, Die frühchristliche und byzantinische Kunst, Beck .Wissen München 2016
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