Early Christian and Early Byzantine Art (Bachelor’s Degree)

Pre-requisites: The student must fulfill the Faculty of Philosophy Statute requirements. The attendance at lectures and group in-class discussions is mandatory.

Course objectives: The goal of the course is to introduce students with the beginning, development and trends of early Christian and early Byzantine art, including the presentations of iconographic and stylistic characteristics of works of art.

Course description: The course introduces all the aspects of the creative work in artistic domain and domain of visual cultures across the territory of the Roman Empire, from the III century to the end of iconoclasm. The practical segment includes introduction to individual representative examples through museum practice, field work, and electronic data base.

Learning Outcomes: The course is designed with the idea to enable students to study artworks and understand them in a religious, ideological, social and cultural context.

Literature/Reading:

• F. Gerke, Kasna antika i rano hrišćanstvo, Novi Sad 1973.
• L. Mirković, Ikonografske studije, Novi Sad 1974.
• V. Lazarev, Istorija vizantijskog slikarstva, Beograd 2004.
• A. Grabar, Premier art chretien, Paris 1966.
• A. Grabar, L’age d’or de Justinien, Paris 1966.(=A. Grabar, The Golden Age of Justinian, from the death of Theodosius to the rise of Islam, New York 1967)
• K. Weitzmann, Late Antique and Early Christian Book Illumination, London 1977.
• Age of Spirituality, edited by K.Weitzmann, New York 1978
• G. Ostrogorski, Istorija Vizantije, Beograd 1996.
• J. Elsner, Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph: the art of the Roman empire AD 100-450, Oxford University Press 1998.