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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Over an active career of more than fifty years, Alessandro Magnasco developed a highly original painterly manner which, when combined with picaresque subject matter adapted from Spanish literature, presented viewers with images of...
Antichrist, Eschatology, and Romance in the Illustrated Harley Apocalypse, Sibylle Tiburtine, and the Tournoiement Antécrist (MSS Harley 4972 and Douce 308)
This dissertation examines the transformative power of imagery in illustrated Apocalypse manuscripts made in the Lorraine region of France at the turn of the fourteenth century. The first part of this dissertation examines these...
This paper examines representations of Eros and Erotes and their functions in Late Antique mosaics within the specific context of Antioch. A study of these twenty mosaics is important for art historians who want to understand the...
This dissertation examines anatomical images in Early Modern Spain and their corresponding texts as critical material agents in the reorganization of the human body in print. My research shows that Spanish artists and anatomists under...
This dissertation provides the first comprehensive study of Les Costumes Grotesques, a group of one-hundred black and white single-figure etchings of elegantly-posed characters wearing or composed of items related to a specific...
In 1984 George Rodrigue, then known primarily as a naïve surrealist or Cajun primitive expressionist, was asked to paint illustrations for a collection of Louisiana ghost stories entitled Bayou. When the moment came to illustrate the...
In 1516 Louise of Savoy, mother of the French king Francis I, undertook a pilgrimage to Provence to visit La Sainte-Baume, the grotto shrine of Saint Mary Magdalene, to whom she was particularly devoted. Accompanied by her son, daughter, ...
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