Universität Wien

080025 PS Case Study I: The Late Medieval High Altar, its Furnishing and its Environment (2014W)

10.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 8 - Kunstgeschichte und Europäische Ethnologie
Continuous assessment of course work

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max. 25 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

*ACHTUNG*
- Manche Einheiten fangen früher an: 10.00-12.15
- Tutoriumtermine finden vor der LV statt: DI, 9.00-10.30, erster Termin 14.10.

  • Tuesday 07.10. 10:45 - 12:15 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
  • Tuesday 14.10. 10:45 - 12:15 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
  • Tuesday 21.10. 10:45 - 12:15 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
  • Tuesday 28.10. 10:45 - 12:15 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
  • Tuesday 04.11. 10:45 - 12:15 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
  • Tuesday 11.11. 10:45 - 12:15 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
  • Tuesday 18.11. 10:45 - 12:15 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
  • Tuesday 25.11. 10:45 - 12:15 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
  • Tuesday 02.12. 10:45 - 12:15 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
  • Tuesday 09.12. 10:45 - 12:15 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
  • Tuesday 16.12. 10:45 - 12:15 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
  • Tuesday 13.01. 10:45 - 12:15 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
  • Tuesday 20.01. 10:45 - 12:15 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
  • Tuesday 27.01. 10:45 - 12:15 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07

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Aims, contents and method of the course

The most important task of late medieval sacral art was the furnishing of the high altar. While such furnishing became increasingly elaborate across the Continent in this period, it was particularly the winged retables of Central Europe that saw sophisticated combinations of various artistic genres, producing monuments that, in their size and decorative intensity, dominated the east end of the church. The focus of the seminar, however, is not on the altar mensa alone, but also on further furnishings in its immediate environment, which served to accentuate the sanctuary and show multifaceted connections to the high altar itself: from screens and stalls to sacrament houses and tomb monuments. At the centre of our investigation is a series of particularly well preserved ensembles, which offer wide-ranging insights into the workings of the pre-reformation sacred space and its imagery.

Assessment and permitted materials

Performance will be assessed on the basis of the presentations, contributions made to discussions, and the written work resulting from these (c. 4000 words, including footnotes, plus max. 20 illustrations, German or English).

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

- Investigation of a central aspect of late medieval cultural history
- Improved knowledge of late medieval religious art
- Improved knowledge of late medieval church planning and liturgy

Examination topics

The proseminar is based on seminars at the Institute for Art History with some visits to relevant monuments. Participants will give presentations (maximum 30 mins) on specific examples, following which there will be a discussion. Presentations in English are welcome.

Reading list

Geschichte der bildenden Kunst in Deutschland: Gotik (Hg. Bruno Klein, München 2007); Spätgotik und Renaissance (Hg. Katharina Krause, München 2007).
Geschichte der bildenden Kunst in Österreich: Gotik (Hg. Gunther Brucher, München-London-New York 2000), Spätmittelalter und Renaissance (Hg. Artur Rosenauer, München-London-New York 2003)
Gotika. Dejíny slovenského výtvarného umenia, (Hg. Dusan Buran, Bratislava 2003)

Michael Baxandall, The Limewood Sculptors of Renaissance Germany, Yale 1980 (Deutsche Übersetzung, 1984).
Joseph Braun, Der christliche Altar in seiner geschichtlichen Entwicklung, 2 Bde., Munich 1924.
Verena Fuchß, Das Altarenensemble. Eine Analyse des Kosmopolitcharakters früh- und hochmittelalterlicher Altarausstattung, Weimar 1999.
Rainer Kahsnitz und Achim Bunz, Die großen Schnitzaltäre. Spätgotik in Süddeutschland, Österreich und Südtirol, München 2005.
Justin Kroesen und Victor Schmidt (Hg.), The Altar and its Environment, Turnhout 2009.
Justin Kroesen, Seitenaltäre in mittelalterlichen Kirchen. Standort - Raum - Liturgie, Regensburg 2010.
Bruno Reudenbach, Der Altar als Bildort. Das Flügelretabel und die liturgische Inszenierung des Kirchenjahres, in: U. Schneede Hg., Goldgrund und Himmelslicht, Hamburg 1999, 26-33.
Beth Williamson, Altarpieces, Liturgy, and Devotion, in: Speculum, 79 (2004), 341-406.
Norbert Wolf, Deutsche Schnitzretabel des 14. Jahrhunderts, Berlin 2002.
Robert Suckale, Der mittelalterliche Kirchenbau im Gebrauch und als Ort der Bilder, in: U. Schneede (Hg.), Goldgrund und Himmelslicht, Hamburg 1999, 15-25.

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