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Information on the forthcoming exam

21 Maio 2020, 18:00 • Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras

For those of you who wish to do the exam, I am sending you the required information.

O exame terá lugar no dia 2 de Junho 2020, das 12h às 14h.
The exam will take place on June 2, 2020, from 12am to 2pm.
O exame realiza-se em sessão zoom, ID
The exam will take place in zoom session with the following ID:
Entrar na reunião Zoom
https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/3257356771

ID da reunião: 325 735 6771

Ingresso pelo SIP
3257356771@zoomcrc.com

O exame, consulta, será constituído por duas questões com igual valor (10/10).
The exam (with free access to spurces) will consist of two questions with the same value (10/10).

PROCEDIMENTO:
1- O exame será enviado para o endereço institucional dos alunos cerca das 11h, 50m;
2- Todos os alunos devem ingressar na sessão e escrever o seu nome completo no bate-papo;
3- O exame poderá ser efectuado em português ou inglês;
4- Da primeira página deverão constar os seguintes elementos:
4.1. Nome completo
4.2. Número de aluno
4.3. Curso
4.4. nome da Unidade Curricular – CULTURA MODERNA ou HISTÓRIA E CULTURA INGLESA, SEC. XVI- XVIII
5 – O exame deverá ser enviado até 20 minutos após o período do exame para o seguinte endereço: adelaideserras@campus.ul.pt.

PROCEDURE:
1 – The exam will be sent to the students’ institutional e-mail c. 11,50 am;
2 – Every examenee must ingress in the zoom session and write his/her full name in the chat;
3 – The exam may be answered either in Portuguese or in English;
4 – The front page must include the following data:
4.1. The student’s full name;
4.2. Studentps number;
4.3. Name of the course;
4.4. Name of the subject - MODERN CULTURE or ENGLISH HISTORY AND CULTURE, SIXTEENTH-EIGHTEENNTH CENTURY;
5 – The exam must be sent back until 20 minutes after the closing of the exam to the following e-mail address: adelaideserras@campus.ul.pt.

Best regards,
Adelaide Meira Serras

written test zoom session

7 Maio 2020, 12:00 • Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras

Written test in zoom session. Delievery to e-mail address:  adelaideserras@campus.ul.pt.


the test will be sent back after assessing by e-mail.

Preparation to the test zoom session.

5 Maio 2020, 12:00 • Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras

Overview on the main topics of the programme.The political ideologies: absolutism and parliamentarism. Main treatises.The scientific revolution: the new science and its role on the moulfing of a new way of life.the most relevant theories of knowledge: rationalism and empiricism. The eighteenth-century revolutions: the American Revolution, the French Revolution and the Industrisl Revolution.The aesthetic schools and their cultural meaning.
Test on thursday, the 7th, from 12 am to 2 pm in zoom session .ID:

https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/3257356771

ID da reunião: 325 735 6771

Ingresso pelo SIP
3257356771@zoomcrc.com

Flemish Art zoom session

30 Abril 2020, 12:00 • Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras

Flemish art .Ftom -Hieronymus Bosch's disturbing depictions, as for instance, the triptic of the Garden of Earthly Delights to Holbein's portrait and courtly painting. Analysis of the Ambassadors as a glimpse into sixteenth-century view of the world by the elite of educated men accross borders.
  The realistic aesthetic approach in connection with the bourgeois, Calvinist culture of the Netherlands. The domestic themes in Vermeer's work and the urban way of life.

Landscape painting: Nature as the work of art's central figure. Approach of some of Rubens' work.

Oral presentations on English , French and Italian artists by atudents.



Note: Test on the 8th, 12 am to 2 pm.
the test will be sent by e-mail at 11,50 am, before the opening of the zoom session.

The Baroque zoom session

28 Abril 2020, 12:00 • Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras

The Baroque: its aesthetic characteristics. The dialogue between neoclassic balance and harmony and  the new movement, colour, brilliancy, exuberance. examples from Bernini.The baroque and its role within the Counter-Reformation - S. Peter's  basilica and the metaphorical tembrace of Christendom by means of the eliptical dispostion of the building. The aesthetic views of Catholic doctrine as depicted in paintings and frescos on religious themes, either episodes of the Bible or hagiographic. Example of Andrea Pozzo's  Gloria di Sant' Ignazio.Themes of classic mythology and the philosophical questioning of human determinism or free will.