Admission requirements
Sufficient proficiency in English.
Description
The Low Countries have made a rich contribution to art history with well-known artists and movements. This lecture series offers a thematic overview of painting in the Low Countries from the fifteenth to the twentieth century. Each lecture will focus on a specific artist with an emphasis on developments in style, function and meaning of their paintings. Through the eyes of these artists, students will learn about Early Netherlandish art (e.g., Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden), important sixteenth-century painters (such as Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel the Elder), famous painters from the so-called ‘Dutch Golden Age’ (for instance, Rembrandt) and late nineteenth- and twentieth-century artists (like Vincent van Gogh and Piet Mondrian). Important art-historical moments will be framed in the context of Early Netherlandish, Flemish and Dutch culture and history, as well as within a more global perspective.
PowerPoints of lectures will be made available on Brightspace after each class. Additional readings that will help students with their independent learning will be posted on Brightspace at the start of the course .
Course objectives
By focusing each lecture on a different artist, the course offers an overview of artistic developments from 1400 up to and including the twentieth century, as well as various academic approaches to the visual arts in the Low Countries. Students will acquire skills in recognizing differences in style and artistic developments. Moreover, it provides insight into the cultural and historical contexts in which Netherlandish art flourished. Students will also learn how to visually analyse paintings and to identify key artworks .
Learning objectives:
(Meta-)cognitive: Research and analysing
Interpersonal: Written communication
Intrapersonal: Reflect and Independent Learning
Timetable
See My Timetable.
Mode of instruction
- Lectures
Assessment method
- Written examination with closed questions (eg multiple choice), short open questions, and essay questions
Assessment and Weighing
The course has an in-person exam, consisting of a few painting analyses and a few questions focused on your insight knowledge regarding the developments of style and characteristics of movements and works by famous artists. The answers need to be based on the lectures; other course material available on Brightspace can be helpful. The mark for the exam should be at least 6.
Resit
There is a resit for the exam in January; you can see when on MyTimetable.
A mark lower than 6 for the resit means a fail for the whole course.
Student will have to do the course again in the following year.
Inspection and feedback
How and when an exam review will take place will be disclosed together with the publication of the exam results at the latest. If a student requests a review within 30 days after publication of the exam results, an exam review will have to be organized.
Reading list
The reading material will be published on Brightspace.
Registration
General information about registering for courses and exams can be found [here] (https://www.student.universiteitleiden.nl/en/your-study-programme/courses-and-exams/enrolment/humanities/dutch-studies-ba?cf=humanities&cd=dutch-studies-ba#tab-1)
Registration Studeren à la carte and Contractonderwijs
Information for those interested in taking this course in context of À la carte education (without taking examinations), eg. about costs, registration and conditions.
Information for those interested in taking this course in context of Contract teaching (with taking examinations), eg. about costs, registration and conditions.
For the registration of exchange students contact Humanities International Office.
Contact
For substantive questions, contact the lecturer listed in the right information bar.
For questions about enrolment, admission, etc, contact the Education Administration Office: Reuvensplaats
Remarks
Not applicable.