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In 2005, Polish-born artist Krzysztof Wodiczko, known for using video projections to animate existing public monuments and architecture in more than a dozen countries, exhibited his first large-scale indoor video projection titled "If...
The medieval Roman icon, known as the Madonna della Clemenza (Santa Maria in Trastevere), is unusual for both its large size and its inclusion of a papal portrait. Debate over the age and patron of the icon has centered on the...
Scholars have hailed David Cox (1783-1859) as one of the pillars of English landscape painting of the early nineteenth century, together with John Constable and J.M.W. Turner. Working primarily in watercolor, Cox celebrated the English...
In August 1912, American photographer Alfred Stieglitz published Gertrude Stein's word portraits of Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse in a special issue of Camera Work. Most scholars agree that these word portraits inspired the invention...
In this thesis I explore the concept of materiality in Gustave Moreau's oeuvre. For Moreau, this was an important concept, which influenced his art in a variety of different ways. Looking at three interpretations of the concept, I show...
"The Politics of Devotion: Patronage and the Sumptuous Arts at the French Court (1374-1472)" argues for the significance of devotional art in the construction of legitimate political identity in late-fourteenth and fifteenth century...
The chief objective of this study is to establish the sources of Gyorgy Kepes's visual theory as expounded in his 1944 book Language of Vision, and examine his synthesis of these sources in a form that was so popular that his theoretic...
Leonardo da Vinci's decoration of the Sala delle Asse in the Castello Sforzseca in Milan is a fresco decoration commissioned by Ludovico Il Moro, the Duke of Milan in 1498. The work is best described as an emblem of ducal power. In this...
While Peasant Family in an Interior (c. 1642; Paris, Musée du Louvre) is undeniably one of the Le Nain brothers' most famous works, scholars have reached no consensus on the level of reality depicted in the image, or on the painting's...
Henri-Gatien Bertrand is perhaps the least known of the generals who occupied a prestigious position near Napoleon during the years of the First French Empire. Born in 1773 to a family of the lesser nobility, Bertrand's life encompassed...
The Bibles moralisées are a group of seven heavily illustrated Bibles made during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. This dissertation analyzes the thirteenth-century French Moralized Bible now housed in the treasury of Toledo...
In this thesis, I consider how Odilon Redon symbolized the theme of evil in many of his black and white prints. I examine Redon's compilation of these prints into portfolios in dialogue with literary interpretations of evil in Charles...
In this thesis I argue that Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) composed the first volume of Le Antichit' Romane (1756) to emphasize his expertise and knowledge of ancient Rome's monuments and topography. My study questions the...
The wartime career of General Mark W. Clark has never been critically analyzed. This study addresses that missing scholarship. This dissertation examines the wartime career of General Clark beginning with his arrival in England in 1942...
The Last Judgment, depicted at least twenty times in French sculpture alone, was one of the most frequently represented themes in the architectural sculpture of the thirteenth century, yet no one has explained its vast popularity, nor...
Contemporary pilgrimage activities associated with the Volto Santo may be traced to the origins of the cult, which, as I argue in this dissertation, was established in the late eleventh century. I propose this new date of the cult's...
French American artist Niki de Saint Phalle staged an explosive entry into the art scene of the early 1960s by publicly shooting her art with a .22 caliber rifle. Her guns’ bullets broke her carefully composed assemblages, puncturing...
In May of 1928, the Premier salon indépendant de la photographie opened to the public. This exhibition, better known as the Salon de l'Escalier, was the first occasion at which modern photography was critically recognized in France....
In this paper, I suggest that the Byzantine Patriarch Photios (r. 858-867, 877-886) used the composition of the apse mosaic of the Theotokos and Christ-Child and its relationship to the light within Hagia Sophia to his political...
The Gaze of the Beholder: How National Identity in Nineteenth Century England Was Reinforced by the Collection and Display of Ancient Egyptian Material Culture
This thesis explores how the British Museum, David Roberts and Francis Frith asserted English identity throughout first part of the nineteenth-century. I argue that they did this through the collection and display of ancient Egyptian...
Fates of Man, a series of four polychrome wooden sculptures attributed to Indigenous artist Manuel "Caspicara" Chili, made in Quito, Ecuador in c. 1775, stands as one of the primary examples of the artwork produced by the Quito school....
The Photographic Essay as Index of African-American Identity in the Interwar Years: "Black Saturday," Roll, Jordan, Roll, You Have Seen Their Faces, and 12 Million Black Voices
This dissertation examines the intersecting space between word and image that characterizes the photographic essay as a distinct medium. To illustrate the power negotiations that occur in the interstices of word and image, this...
This thesis examines the series of Apocalypse illustrations appearing in a thirteenth-century copy of the Liber Floridus, MS lat. 8865 in the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The Liber Floridus is an illustrated encyclopedia completed...
The Ambrosian Iliad is a Late Antique manuscript that depicts Homer's Iliad. Originally written in Greek, much of its text was lost when the pictures were later removed from the original codex and pasted on separate sheets of vellum....
Hans Baldung Grien used the innovative chiaroscuro woodcut technique, invented in Germany in 1508, to create his prints Witches' Sabbath (1510) and Fall of Man (1511). This thesis argues that Baldung's depictions of witches and of Eve...
Ek’ Balam’s ceremonial precinct offers what appears at first glance to be an interesting bricolage of architectural styles and anomalies. In this dissertation I examine the amalgamation of styles through the concept of placemaking and...
The chief objective of this study is to examine the post-1948 life of forty-six paintings, originally a part of the United States Department of State's Advancing American Art collection. When given a second life after the collection's...
In this dissertation I examine the Tablas de Sarhua, paintings on board made by the people of the Andean peasant community of Sarhua, through an art history lens informed by the discourse on indigeneity and decoloniality. Since at least...
Mixtec codices are sacred books folded like accordions and composed of strips of deer hide or fig-tree bark that visually narrate activities of deities, supernatural culture heroes, and the actions and genealogies of historical Mixtec...
From 1935 to 1945, the Chicago pharmaceutical corporation Abbott Laboratories, the military's primary medical supplier during the Second World War, commissioned dozens of artists in a unique contractual agreement to produce hundreds of...
The author argues that the mosaic of Justinian and Constantine offering gifts to the enthroned Virgin and Child in the southwest vestibule of Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, presents the viewer with an image of salvation. Previous...
This dissertation considers foodways as a vital symbolic and material force in the arts of Mexico’s volatile postrevolutionary reconstruction (1920 – 1960). Although Mexican food history has stood at the forefront of a growing food...
The large-scale frescoes from Neopalatial Crete and contemporary Thera reveal a salient emphasis on the portrayal of textiles. The theme of textiles is realized in the intricate portrayals of patterned clothing, the central depictions of...
This dissertation studies the paintings and lithographs of Charles Hazelwood Shannon within the context of British Venetianism. Shannon clearly derived many stylistic elements and figurative motifs from Venetian Renaissance art. By doing...
This thesis investigates the dissemination of Martin Schongauer's religious prints and their reception by artists in late fifteenth-century Aragón. It has long been accepted that Schongauer's prints reached the Iberian Peninsula; however...
Ãdouard Manet's "Masked Ball at the Opera" of 1873 shares formal and thematic relationships with Charles Baudelaire's poetry and art criticism. Although previous scholars have suggested visual sources for Manet's paintings, I argue that...
This dissertation re-contextualizes the types, uses, and meanings of reliquaries in the Middle Byzantine period (843–1204). Relics are the remains of—or the materials associated with—Christ, the Mother of God, apostles, martyrs, and...
Cloud Gate, a monumental, sculptural-structure by artist Anish Kapoor, provides the focal point of this paper. I demonstrate through an exposition of specific art critical, art historical, and phenomenological reasoning why Cloud Gate...
Narrative cycles of St. Stephen, proto-martyr, are common, frequently found on ecclesiastical monuments of thirteenth-century France. The cathedrals of Bourges, Chartres, and Paris, to name only a few, support visual imagery inspired by...
In August 1912, American photographer Alfred Stieglitz published Gertrude Stein's word portraits of Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse in a special issue of Camera Work. Most scholars agree that these word portraits inspired the invention...
Can an object be defined as votive solely based upon the presence of an inscription? Does relying upon such a definition restrict a more multivalent analyses of objects thus identified as votive? In this thesis, I examine the most...
The reliquary chapel of Saint John the Baptist in Siena Cathedral, built between 1482 and 1504, provides valuable insight into an important cultural and historical moment in late fifteenth century Italy. This dissertation explicates the...
The "Travels of Sir John Mandeville, a narrative account written by the self-proclaimed knight of St. Albans, was one of the most popular books of the Middle Ages, translated into every major European language by 1400 and surviving in...
As director of the War Relocation Authority Photographic Section, Tom Wesley Parker (1907-76) produced hours of unedited footage and several completed films, which were integrated into an expansive World War II propaganda program in a...
Modern scholarship's conception of Paul Cézanne as an artistic failure tortured by sexual and social anxieties stems from sensationalized narrative rather than historical fact. Through an examination of primary evidence, my thesis...
This study examines sixteenth-century cartographic documents that chronicle the cultural exchange between the old and new worlds. Maps included in this work come from Spain, dating between 1524 and 1579, from the Valley of Puebla, from...
This thesis examines the stained glass windows in the ambulatory of Trinity Chapel at Canterbury Cathedral, known as the Miracle Windows, and presents the argument that they function as a type of visual miracle collection, one that...
This dissertation addresses the printed works of mathematician, Peter Apian (1495-1552). A prolific writer and scholar, Apian produced works on a range of subjects including astronomy, cosmography, and instrumentation which were...
In this thesis I argue that Michelangelo's Cleopatra drawing for his friend Tommaso de'Cavalieri has been isolated from its historical circumstances, its literary and visual context, and ultimately its political context as well....
This study examines early seventeenth-century Parisian churches supported by French monarchs, concentrating on the manner in which the buildings illuminate the political goals of the patrons. Specifically it focuses on the reign of King...
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