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"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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
Gerrit Dou (1613-1675) is among the many artists in the Dutch Republic whose paintings, as well as professional activities, display a preoccupation with the status of painting as a liberal art and the status of the painter as a learned, ...
The Semblance of Things: Corporeal Gesture in Viennese Expressionism examines the critical discourse surrounding the iconography of expressive gesture in fin-de-siècle Viennese visual culture, including their manifestation in early...
This study examines the formal and ideological origins of the earliest Renaissance cast portrait medals, created by the artist Pisanello (Antonio di Puccio, c. 1394-1455). It focuses on three courts and objects produced at each that are...
This dissertation examines the altar murals created by Jean Charlot at St. Francis Xavier's Catholic Mission, Naiserelagi village, Ra District, Fiji Islands. The church houses three of Charlot's frescoes, a triptych over the main altar...
Frank Gehry introduced a new era in architecture with the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. The expressive quality of the building signaled to both architects and critics alike that an important change had occurred; yet, the most...
My thesis explores the relationship between Dan Graham's installation (b. 1942) Bisected Triangle, Interior Curve (2002) and its location at the Inhotim Institute of Contemporary Art and Botanical Gardens in Brumadinho, Brazil. Visitors...
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