The main objectives are the following:
To provide students with a critical knowledge of the artistic production along the History.
To provide students with knowledge on the characteristics, functions and basic lines of Art in its different expressions.
To know how to place the art work in the socio-politic, economic, religious and ideological context of each historical period.
LECTURE: The professor will expose the theoretical aspects of the subject using didactic material such as photocopies that will be handed out in class or digitalized documents on the Campus Virtualblackboard-. Students should have read previously a basic bibliography that they will receive at the beginning of the semester in order to contrast different points of view.
SEMINAR: There will be several seminars to approach to research with the aim to teach from the first moment the management of specific bibliography and other resources and to develop a critical learning.

Several monographic seminars will be announced to promote active participation from students.
WORK GROUP: Students will expose the formal and iconographic study of the Medieval Spanish art works, contextualizing them in their historic and cultural framework. In the presentations, there will be a discussion on the specific work of art and the literary documental sources that inspire it.
PRACTICE: The practical sessions will consist of visits to permanent collections and temporal exhibitions as well as other institutions that house relevant works for the study of Medieval Hispanic Art. The realization of practical sessions is subject to schedule and availability of the museums and/or institutions.
SYNTHESIS PAPERS: Students will have to write a synthesis paper on an art work of the Medieval Spain. The paper, supervised by the professor, must start from a brief state of the current status of the issue and follow later with a formal and iconographic study of the chosen art work. It is essential to use a specialized bibliography in the elaboration of this paper.
OTHERS:
Students must write a reading worksheet.
The final grade will be calculated based on:
 Two written tests 60%
 Individual research paper 20%
 Reading worksheet 10 %
 Participation in seminars, classes and practical sessions 10%

I : PRE-ROMANESQUE ART
Theme 1: Visigoth Art: Architecture, relief and metal crafts
Theme 2: Asturian Art: The kingdoms of Alfonso II, Ramiro I and
Alfonso III.
Theme 3: Mozarab Art: Architecture and Miniatures
II: ROMANESQUE ART
Theme 4: The Romanesque architecture of the Way of St. James.
Theme 5: Romanesque sculpture
Theme 6: Romanesque painting: The Catalan and Castilian schools
III: HISPANIC-MUSLIM ART
Theme 7: The art in Al-Andalus until 10 th century and during the Taifa kingdoms.
Theme 8: Almoravid, Almohad and Nasrid art
Theme 9: Mudéjar Art
IV: GOTHIC ART
Theme 10: The cathedrals with French influence and the cathedrals from Medi Gothic
Theme 11: Gothic sculpture: Great portals and funerary sculpture
Theme 12: Gothic painting: the Italian Trecento influence
Theme 13: Hispanic-Flemish Painting
Theme 14: Gothic miniature
PRACTICE
Practice 1. Visit to the medieval collection of the National Archaelogical
Museum.
Practice 2. Visit to the Hispanic-Flemish Painting collection of the
Prado Museum.

BASIC BIBLIOGRAPHY
YARZA LUACES, J., Arte y arquitectura en España 500-1250, Madrid:
Cátedra, 1987
AZCÁRATE RISTORI, J. M., Arte gótico en España, Madrid: Cátedra,
2000
RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY
BANGO TORVISO, I., Alta Edad Media. De la tradición hispanogoda al
románico, Madrid: Sílex,
1995
BANGO TORVISO, I., Arte prerrománico hispano. El arte en la España
cristiana de los siglos VI al XI. Madrid: Espasa Calpe 2001 (Summa
Artis, VIII-II)
CAMÓN AZNAR, J., Pintura medieval española, Madrid: Espasa Calpe,
1966 (Summa Artis, XXII)
COOK, W., y GUDIOL, J., Pintura e imaginería románicas. Madrid: Plus
Ultra, 1980 (Ars Hispanie, VI)
GÓMEZ MORENO, M., Arte mozárabe. Madrid: Plus Ultra, 1951 (Ars
Hispanie, III)
LAMBERT, E., El arte gótico en España en los siglos XII y XIII, Madrid:
Cátedra, 1985
LÓPEZ GUZMÁN, R., Arquitectura mudéjar, Madrid: Cátedra, 2002
MOMPLET MÍGUEZ, A. E., El arte hispanomusulmán, Madrid:
Encuentro, 2004
OLAGUER-FELIU, F., El arte románico español, Madrid: Encuentro,
2003
SUREDA, J., La pintura románica en España, Madrid: Alianza
Forma,1995
USEFUL WEB RESOURCES
Escultura románica: http://www.claustro.com/
Museo Arqueológico Nacional: http://www.man.mcu.es
Museo del Prado: http://www.museodelprado.es
Museu Nacional d´Art de Catalunya: http://www.mnac.es