Iconography and decorative themes in Byzantine pictioral Arts I

Course Information
TitleΔιάκοσμος και η θεματική του στα Βυζαντινά μνημεία Ι / Iconography and decorative themes in Byzantine pictioral Arts I
CodeΑΒΥ881
FacultyPhilosophy
SchoolHistory and Archaeology
Cycle / Level2nd / Postgraduate
Teaching PeriodWinter/Spring
CommonNo
StatusActive
Course ID280007191

Class Information
Academic Year2013 – 2014
Class PeriodWinter
Faculty Instructors
Weekly Hours3
Class ID
280095361
Course Type 2016-2020
  • Scientific Area
  • Skills Development
Course Type 2011-2015
Specific Foundation / Core
Mode of Delivery
  • Face to face
Digital Course Content
Erasmus
The course is also offered to exchange programme students.
Language of Instruction
  • Greek (Instruction, Examination)
  • English (Instruction, Examination)
  • French (Instruction, Examination)
Prerequisites
General Prerequisites
Knowledge of the monumental Byzantine painting. Knowledge of english and elements of french
Learning Outcomes
After the successful completion of this course, students will be able: -to read iconographic programs and plans, to perceive the distribution of composition in the monument -to apply a correct scientific terminology in the analysis of iconographic subjects -to gain a comprehensive knowledge of the scene of the Second Coming
General Competences
  • Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
  • Make decisions
  • Work autonomously
  • Work in teams
  • Work in an international context
  • Work in an interdisciplinary team
  • Generate new research ideas
  • Be critical and self-critical
  • Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
Study of the iconographic programs of Byzantine churches. Special topic: examination of the Last Judgment and integration into the program of the church. Function of the churches and the composition of the Last Judgment in Macedonia and Balkans.
Keywords
Last Judgment, damned, Byzantine Iconography
Educational Material Types
  • Notes
  • Slide presentations
  • Interactive excersises
  • Book
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
  • Use of ICT in Course Teaching
Course Organization
ActivitiesWorkloadECTSIndividualTeamworkErasmus
Lectures
Seminars
Fieldwork
Reading Assigment
Tutorial
Field trips and participation in conferences / seminars / activities
Written assigments
Total
Student Assessment
Student Assessment methods
  • Written Exam with Short Answer Questions (Formative)
  • Written Assignment (Formative)
  • Oral Exams (Formative)
  • Performance / Staging (Formative)
  • Written Exam with Problem Solving (Formative)
  • Report (Formative)
Bibliography
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
-Contribution à l’étude du Jugement Dernier dans l’art byzantin et post-byzantin / sous la dir. de Tania Velmans, Cahiers Balkaniques. Histoire de l’art ; 6 -Confronting the end : the interpretation of the Last Judgment in a Novgorod wisdom icon / Priscilla Hunt, Byzantinoslavica. -. Prague : Institut Slave, 2007. - Vol. 65, p. 275-325 -Etudes sur le Jugement Dernier post-byzantin : du XVe à la fin du XIXe siècle : iconographie, esthétique / Miltiadis K. Garidis, Thessalonikê : ’Etaireia Makedonikôn Spoudôn, 1985. -Le Jugement dernier [[Texte imprimé]] : entre Orient et Occident / sous la direction de Valentino Pace ; texte de Marcello Angheben ; contributions de Peter K. Klein, Catherine Jolivet-Lévy, Xenia Muratova... [et al.], Paris : Ed. du Cerf, 2007 -Le Jugement dernier d’Axtala / Nicole Thierry, Bedi Kartlisa, revue de Kartvélologie. 1982 40, p. 185, 19 fig -Le Jugement Dernier de l’église de la Panagia de Moutoullas à Chypre : Une peinture inédite de la seconde moitié du XIVe siècle / Andréas Nicolaïdès, Deltion tês Christianikês Archaiologikês Etaireias. Athêna, 1995 vol. 18, p. 71-78 -Les Jugements derniers byzantins des XIe-XIIe siècles et l’iconographie du jugement immédiat / Marcello Angheben, Cahiers Archéologiques. -. Paris : Picard, 2004. - Vol. 50 (2002), p. 105-134
Last Update
10-01-2014