Cursos / 1º Ciclo / Faculty of Architecture and Arts :: Architecture ( Integrated Master)

HISTÓRIA DA ARTE COMPARADA - 2025/2026

2º curricular year
Semestralidade: 2nd semester
ECTS: 2

Teachers

Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutora Maria da Assunção Lemos
Assistant Professor: Prof. Doutora Maria da Assunção Lemos

Class type and School hours

Teórica : 2 Horas

Teaching Language

Portuguese

Main Aims/Objectives

- Having assimilated the objectives and contents developed in the History of Modern Art, it is important to understand and evaluate the propagation and acceptance of the new Italian artistic culture called Renaissance, Mannerism and Baroque in Europe, and, by extension, in the new colonized world. Also understand the emergence of new cultural and artistic movements: the Enlightenment, the Rococo and the Neoclassical.

Specific Aims/Objectives

- To understand the difficult progression in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries of the new Italian artistic culture, in the face of Gothic tradition in Europe. The triumph of the classic in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries in Europe. The realisation of the ideal city in Asia and America and the impact of non-Western civilisations with the European colonizer.

Skills to be acquired

- To relate artists and works produced in Europe, within the new classic costume invented and propagated by the Italians.
- Be able to discern and apply the already explored concepts of Modern, Classical, Renaissance, Mannerism and Baroque. And also the ideal City and Utopia. Western and non-Western.

Teaching Procedures

Classes will be colloquial, using bibliography and examples chosen for analysis. Open to debate and presentation and defense of work (individual and group), when properly guided. Whenever possible, they will be complemented with study visits, conferences and other relevant activities outside the classroom.

Programme

1 – Europe and the Renaissance (Flanders, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Spain and Portugal). Exploration of the most significant names and works.
2 – The internationalization of Mannerism in Europe (the court of Fontainebleau/France, the court of Prague and others in Central Europe. The Netherlands. Flanders. Spain and Portugal). Exploration of the most significant names and works.
3 – The colonial cities in Asia, America (and Africa). The realization of the ideal Renaissance city. The civilizational clash of Western culture with non-Western cultures. Exploration of some significant examples.
4 – The Baroque in France, North and Central Europe. The Iberian and colonial Baroque.
5 – From Baroque to Rococo in Europe. Exploration of some significant examples.
6 – Genesis of Neoclassicism in Europe in the seventeenth/eighteenth century (the increase in excavations. The trips. The Lights. The Academy. The publications. The Halls). Exploration of the most significant examples.

Evaluation Type

Two written tests with consultation
Attendance and active participation in tasks inside and outside the classroom (Tutorials, conferences, study visits, etc.).

Teaching Resources

- From the most traditional projection methods to the most modern ones.
- Films, colloquia, exhibitions (within the university or abroad, but accessible in museums, galleries, foundations, fairs, etc.) and study visits (in the region, in Portugal and abroad).

Sustainability Objectives

Keywords

- Modern History
- Comparative Art
- Fifteenth to eighteenth centuries
- Ideal city

Main Bibliography

Complementary Bibliography