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HU Credits:
4
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
islamic & middle east stud.
Semester:
Yearly
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Prof. Rachel Milstein
Coordinator Office Hours:
Monday 11:00 - 12:00
Teaching Staff:
Prof Rachel Milstein
Course/Module description:
This course is a survey of the various visual art units which proliferated in the Indian sub-continent. It is arranged in chronological order and according to the main religions which developed in India or controlled major parts of it. Based on most important works of architecture, sculpture and painting, the course presents the relationship between the each religious historical unit and its art. The aim of this course is to present to the participants the rich visual culture and the unique cultural encounters which took place in huge sub-continent during some twenty five centuries. The course is also aimed at giving the participant a basic knowledge of the various contents and styles which characterize the main historical and religious periods.
Course/Module aims:
. The aim of this course is to present to the participants the rich visual culture and the unique cultural encounters which took place in huge sub-continent during some twenty five centuries. The course is also aimed at giving the participant a basic knowledge of the various contents and styles which characterize the main historical and religious periods.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
The students will hopefully be able to identify the major architectural monuments and art works in and of India; to know to some extant their content and message; to place them in their historical and cultural context; and most importantly – to appreciate and to love them.
Attendance requirements(%):
100%
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
The course is based on power point representation which will be projected in the class-room and can be found in Moodle.
Course/Module Content:
1. Introduction: Ancient India and its Art
2. Early Buddhist Art: from Ashoka's Pillars to the Stupa at Sanchi
3. Buddhist art: the contribution of Gandhara.
4. The Buddhist Monastry: from Taxila and Gandhara to Ellora and Badami
5. The Wall-Paintings in Ajanta
6. The Beginning of Hindu Art: Sanchi, Elefanta and Deogarth
7. from Rock-Temples to Stone Building: Mahabalipuram and Aihole
7. The Temples in Patadakal and Kanchipuram
8. Early Temples in the Southern Style: Tanjavur and Chidambaram
9. The Summit of the Northern Style: Ranakpur, Khajuraho, Modhara and Gwalior
10. Orissa and the Later Chalukia: Bhubaneswar, Konarak, Bellur and Halabid
11. Manuscript Illustrations in North India, Wall-Painting and Sculpture in the South
12. The early Muslim settlement in Afghanustan and North India
13. Quwwat al-Islam Mosque in Delhi, Arkhai-ki Jompra Mosque in Ajmer
14. The Mosques of the Sultanats: Delhi, jaunpur, Ahmadabad and the Deccan
15. Hindi and Islamic Palaces until 1550: Gwalior, Agra and Fathpur-Sikri
16. Painting in the Early Sultanat in India
17. Akbar and Moghul Painting
18. The historical Akbari painting
19. Painting in the Time of Jahangir
20. Agra and Delhi in the Time of Shah Jahan
21. Shah Jahan and the Taj-Mahal
22. Muslim Architecture in the deccan
23. Renaissance of the Temple Architecture
24. Late Moghul Painting
25. Rajput Painting in Rajastan and the Punjab
26. Rajput Palaces
Required Reading:
Rowland, Benjamin. The Art and Architecture of India: Buddhist – Hindu – jain.
1967, Penguin Books, Baltimore
Alfieri, B.M., Islamic Architecture of the Indian Subcontinent, London, 2000
Barrett, D and B. Gray, Painting of India, Lausanne, 1963
Koch, E., Mughal Architecture: an Outline of its History and Developmement, Munich, 1991
Michell, George and Mark Zebrowski, Architecture and Art of the Deccan Sultanates, Cambridge UP, 1999
The New Cambridge History of India DS 436 C22 N47
Vol. I:7
Vol. I:3
Milo Cleveland Brach, Mughal and Rajput Painting, 1992
Vol. I:4
Catherine B. Asher, Architecture of Mughal India, 1992
Additional Reading Material:
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 100 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
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