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History of ethics of dying with artworks examples accented on Christian perspectives.
Stuchlá, Vladimíra ; Ovečka, Libor (advisor) ; Ryšková, Mireia (referee)
The development of ethics with samples of period fine art pieces with the emphasis on Christian view. (Range 14.-16. century). The base of this thesis is a brief description of eschatology, developing in the frame of Christian ethics in the midstream of the pestilence's apocalypse of the late Middle Ages. The main part of the thesis is focused on changes in individual as well as social perception of death during the very demanding era of extreme wave of pestilence's epidemic in late Middle Ages even early modern history. The changes in approach and coping with the attribute of death are being observed. The aim of the thesis, on the basis of literary studies, is to gather and analyze the changes in interpretation of death during the mentioned period, evaluate their influence of people's behavior by verification or denial of given hypothesis. The accessible materials are supplemented by previews of period fine art pieces showing the attitude of people in given era towards the perception of their own death. Key words Ars moriendi, Bible, carpe diem, pestilence, eschatology, flagellant, macabre art, dying memento mori, death, death dances, vanitas.
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History of ethics of dying with artworks examples accented on Christian perspectives.
Stuchlá, Vladimíra ; Pavlíková, Eva (advisor) ; Ovečka, Libor (referee)
The basis of this thesis is a description and an analysis of estachology within the Christian ethics during the cultural eras of past millenniums, and their comparison with the development of a recent estachology, an outline of a possible development of death's perception in future. The thesis has a character of a summarizing study from the development of an early mythic life mode, over the development of the Ancient art of living 'Ars vivendi', over the origin and development of medieval 'Ars moriendi' its decay within the onset of modern times, and the effort of modern history to develop the art of immortality until its renaissance in later modern times. The aim of this thesis is to collect, interpret, analyse and review the positive effect of Christian ethics on a post-modern human being, the effect motivating to choose quality life values, the effect helping the human being to accept calmly the mortality of him or herself and his or her relatives. Accessible materials are looked upon from the point of view of sociology, Christian ethics, and period art's creation, so the thesis presents the period's atmosphere and motives of past and recent approach of a human being to own impermanence. The supplementary part supports the thesis with the samples of approaches to dying in periodical art pieces,...
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