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74726-01 - Lecture: Early Modern Metapainting (2 CP)
| Semester | spring semester 2025 |
| Course frequency | Once only |
| Lecturers | Aaron Michael Hyman (aaron.hyman@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | This class treats the topic of early modern metapaintings—that is, paintings that reflect on what a painting is in the first place. Each session will begin with a dense puzzle picture—Velázquez’s The Weavers or Cornelis Gijsbrecht’s The Back of the Painting or Parmigianino’s Self-Portait in a Convex Mirror, for example—that will serve as a guiding vector. In unraveling the rhetoric (and sometimes mysteries) of these pictures along with the social dynamics that led to their creation, students will come over the course of the semester to understand some of the fundamental visual mechanics of the early modern painting. |
| Bibliography | -Victor I. Stoichita, The Self-Aware Image: An Insight into Early Modern Meta-Painting (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997). -Lorenzo Pericolo, “What is Metapainting? The Self-Aware Image Twenty Years Later,” in Victor Stoichita, The Self-Aware Image: An Insight into Early Modern Metapainting. New, Improved and Updated Edition with an Introduction by Lorenzo Pericolo (London: Harvey Miller, 2015), 1–31. Weiterführende Literaturempfehlungen werden zu Beginn des Semesters bekanntgegeben. |
| Course application | Belegen über Online Services (services.unibas.ch) notwendig. |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | Online, optional |
| Course auditors welcome |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| wöchentlich | Thursday | 12.15-14.00 | Alte Universität, Hörsaal -101 |
Dates
| Date | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday 20.02.2025 | 12.15-14.00 | Alte Universität, Hörsaal -101 |
| Thursday 27.02.2025 | 12.15-14.00 | Alte Universität, Hörsaal -101 |
| Thursday 06.03.2025 | 12.15-14.00 | Alte Universität, Hörsaal -101 |
| Thursday 13.03.2025 | 12.15-14.00 | Fasnachstferien |
| Thursday 20.03.2025 | 12.15-14.00 | Alte Universität, Hörsaal -101 |
| Thursday 27.03.2025 | 12.15-14.00 | Alte Universität, Hörsaal -101 |
| Thursday 03.04.2025 | 12.15-14.00 | Alte Universität, Hörsaal -101 |
| Thursday 10.04.2025 | 12.15-14.00 | Alte Universität, Hörsaal -101 |
| Thursday 17.04.2025 | 12.15-14.00 | Ostern |
| Thursday 24.04.2025 | 12.15-14.00 | Alte Universität, Hörsaal -101 |
| Thursday 01.05.2025 | 12.15-14.00 | Tag der Arbeit |
| Thursday 08.05.2025 | 12.15-14.00 | Alte Universität, Hörsaal -101 |
| Thursday 15.05.2025 | 12.15-14.00 | Alte Universität, Hörsaal -101 |
| Thursday 22.05.2025 | 12.15-14.00 | Alte Universität, Hörsaal -101 |
| Thursday 29.05.2025 | 12.15-14.00 | Auffahrt |
| Modules |
Modul: Frühe Neuzeit (Bachelor's degree subject: Art History) Modul: Profil: Frühe Neuzeit (Master's degree program: Art History and Image Theory) Modul: Werk und Kontext (Master's degree program: Art History and Image Theory) Modul: Werk und Kontext (Master's degree subject: Art History) |
| Assessment format | record of achievement |
| Assessment details | Kurze schriftliche Prüfung während der letzten Vorlesungsperiode des Semesters. |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required |
| Repeat examination | one repetition, repetition counts |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | no repetition |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Fachbereich Kunstgeschichte |