Note: A placement exam will be required when you arrive on site.

High Advanced

This course is designed for students who have completed or tested out of a minimum of five semesters (or seven quarters) of college-level Spanish. However, students must take a placement exam to determine the course level into which they will be able to enroll.

OBJECTIVES

The main objective of this Course is to provide students with a general overview of Spanish Sculpture from the Middle Ages to the Present Day (from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries). For sure, it constitutes one of the key artistic manifestations within the history of Hispanic Art, while enjoying popular impact. The approach adopted will imply the study of the principal sculptors that have carried out their creative activity in Spain, while an exploration will also be made of their relation to the society and culture of their time. Likewise their most representative works will be analyzed in stylistic and iconographic terms.

METHODOLOGY

Course content will be visually based at all times, current projection technology always being on hand so that theoretically-based explanations will be linked at all times with the practical observation and analysis of works of sculpture.

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

The following assessment criteria will be taken into account: regular attendance, active participation in class sessions, back-up reading, and voluntary Course assignments. Either a single exam or two exams may be undertaken which will be based upon the cataloguing of, and commentary on, a series of sculptures, while these same projected slides will illustrate the different aspects of Course content explored within the development of the syllabus.

SYLLABUS

• Study Block 1: Introduction to the Study of Sculpture in Spain. The Concept of Sculpture and its Artistic Terminology. The Sculptor’s Craft and the Learning of It: Guild, Workshop, Academy, University. Materials, Techniques, the Typology and Genres of Sculpture.
• Study Block 2: Spanish Sculpture during the Middle Ages. The Key Iconographic Models belonging to the Romanesque and Gothic Worlds: Imagery of the Figure of Mary, Crucifixes. Funerary Sculptures. Sculptural Undertakings for Cathedrals and Monasteries.
• Study Block 3: The Renaissance in Spanish Sculpture. The Importation of Italian Sculptures. Italian Sculptors in Spain. The Presence of French and Flemish Sculptors. The Beginnings of the Schools of Sculpture.
• Study Block 4: Baroque Sculpture in Seventeenth-Century Spain. Sculpture and the Catholic Counter-Reformation. The Survival of Classicism. The Masters of Baroque Realism. The Phenomenon of Dynamic Baroque in Spanish Sculpture.
• Study Block 5: The Baroque and the Academy in Spanish Sculpture of the Eighteenth-Century. The Baroque’s Successors. Rococo Decorament. The Founding of the Academies and Schools of Fine Arts. The Sculptors of the Academies.
• Study Block 6: Spanish Sculpture of the Nineteenth Century. The Weight of the Baroque Tradition. Neoclassicism and Romanticism in Spanish Sculpture. Local-Color Subject Matter. Public Monuments. The Naturalistic Counterwave.
• Study Block 7: Tradition and Modernity in Spanish Sculpture of the Twentieth Century. The Renewal of Sculptural Forms. Baroque Inertia within Religious Imagery. Modern Figuration. New Possibilities of Expression and Avant-Garde Sculpture.

RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY

• VARIOUS AUTHORS: Historia del Arte en Andalucía. Volumen III, V, VII, VIII, and Appendix. Ediciones Gever. Sevilla, 1989-1994.
• Ars Hispaniae. Volumes Dealing with the Study of Spanish Sculpture between the Twelfth and the Twentieth Centuries.
• AZCÁRATE, José María: Arte Gótico en España. Cátedra. Madrid, 1996.
• BANGO TORVISO, Isidro: El Románico en España. Espasa Calpe. Madrid, 1994.
• BOZAL FERNÁNDEZ, Valeriano: Arte del siglo XX en España: pintura y escultura. Espasa Calpe. Madrid, 1995.
• CHECA, Fernando: Pintura y escultura del Renacimiento en España, 1450-1600. Cátedra. Madrid, 1983.
• GA�"ÁN MEDINA, Constantino: Técnicas y evolución de la imaginería polícroma en Sevilla. Universidad de Sevilla. Sevilla, 1999.
• Historia del Arte Hispánico. The Chapters Dealing with the Study of Spanish Sculpture. Editorial Alhambra. Madrid.
• MÁRTIN GONZÁLEZ, Juan José: Escultura barroca en España, 1600-1770. Cátedra. Madrid, 1983.
• REYERO, Carlos, and FREIXA, Mireia: Pintura and Escultura en España, 1800-1910. Cátedra. Madrid, 1995.
• Summa Artis. Volumes and Chapters Dealing with the Art of Sculpture in Spain.