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A Sign in the Pattern: The Creation of Mary Seton Watts’s Ideal Design in the Compton Mortuary Chapel (Surrey, England, 1898)
This dissertation addresses the hierarchal categorization and canonization of the arts as influenced by dominant power structures through the work of turn of the century artist Mary Seton Fraser-Tytler Watts and the Compton ... -
Alexandre Joseph Paillet (1743-1814): study of a Parisian art dealer
(1982)In the last half of the eighteenth century the Parisian art market developed modern working practices: after 1760, in response to an increased demand for art, a separate class of art dealers emerged. Probably based on the ... -
Alina Szapocznikow: Sculpture Between Dreams and Daily Work
This dissertation is a monographic study of the sculptural work of artist Alina Szapocznikow (b.Kalisz, Poland, 1926, d. Paris, France, 1973). During her short but prolific career, Szapocznikow both expanded and dismantled ... -
The American National Plot Visualized: The Reinterpretation of Indian Captivity Narratives at the End of the Nineteenth Century
(2013-07-25)As this thesis will demonstrate in the unfolding chapters, there are several key distinctions that can be made about Native American captivity narratives. The drawings associated with captivity narratives from popular ... -
The artistic and sociological imagery of the merchant-banker on the book covers of the Biccherna in Siena in the early Renaissance
(1998)Between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries, the account covers of the Biccherna, Siena's foremost financial and administrative office, bore painted decorations and inscriptions. The wooden covers are deemed unique ... -
An assembly of ladies: the fifteenth-century pictorial tradition of Christine de Pizan's La cité des dames and Le trésor de la cité des dames
(1989)Christine de Pizan was one of the first vernacular authors to supervise the copying and illustration of her books in the early fifteenth-century. Writing between 1390 and 1429, she produced a vast array of works in verse ... -
Bernini’s Blessed Ludovica Albertoni: Drapery and the Permeability of the Body
Gianlorenzo Bernini’s Blessed Ludovica Albertoni has remained a footnote at the end of the artist’s long life, with scholarly treatment conveying a deep-seated discomfort with the sculpture and its possible meanings. ... -
Beyond Propaganda and Realism in the New Deal Era: Modernist Negotiations of Artistic Style and Social Engagement in the Work of Northwest Women Artists Rapp, Helder, and Morgan
New Deal work relief programs empowered women, like Seattle-based artists and friends Ebba Rapp, Z. Vanessa Helder, and Blanche Morgan, to pursue art careers. These artists occupied unique subject positions that have been ... -
Breaking Bread: Piety, Poverty, and Praxis in Tintoretto's Last Suppers
Jacopo Robusti, known as Tintoretto, completed nine paintings of the Last Supper during his lifetime. These works exhibit a stylistic and iconographic evolution that showcases a deep preoccupation with the impoverished, ... -
Cézanne Becoming Cézanne: The Influence of Stendhal on the Painter's Theory and Practice after 1878
(2013-04-17)This thesis analyzes Cézanne's paintings from around the date 1878 and the impact of the text by Stendhal, L'Histoire de la Peinture en Italie, on Cézanne's theory and practice. Interpreting Cézanne's paintings from 1878 ... -
The Chapel of the Madonna della Strada: A Case Study of Post-Tridentine Painting in Rome
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Christian Motifs in Pacific Northwest Coast Native American Art
(2013-07-23)The purpose of this thesis is to examine Christian motifs in Pacific Northwest Coast Native American art from their first appearance in the 19th century and provide an analysis of these intercultural artworks. The works ... -
The Circulation of Jades in Early China (late Neolithic - Eastern Zhou, ca. 4500-221 B.C.)
Jades (nephrite) have been used and cherished by Chinese residents for more than eight thousand years. They are considered one of the most significant characters of a certain culture. In the practices of archaeology, ... -
The Cuthlasco of the Long Narrows: An Historical, Stylistic, and Functional Analysis of Mountain Sheep Horn Bowls and Ladles
Intricately manufactured, visually stunning, and coveted across vast geographic distances for generations, Columbia River-style mountain sheep horn bowls and ladles exemplify the quintessential art form of the Chinookan ... -
A Dream of Etruria: The Sacro Bosco of Bomarzo and the Alternate Antiquity of Alto Lazio
(2013-11-14)Easily the most enigmatic landscape architectural project of the Italian Renaissance, the Sacro Bosco of Bomarzo, with its bizarre stone beasts and surreal tableaux, has often been discussed in terms of either its relation ... -
Edwin Lord Weeks: An American Artist in North Africa and South Asia
(2014-02-24)Artist, adventurer, travel writer and cultural commentator Edwin Lord Weeks (1849-1903) was one of America's most celebrated expatriate artists. From the 1870s through the 1890s the Boston native and Paris resident traveled ... -
Emperor Qianlong’s Pictorial and Physical Sites for Western Paradises
In the twenty-second year of his reign, Emperor Qianlong, an ardent devotee of Tibetan Buddhism, commissioned his court artist Ding Guanpeng 丁觀鵬 (active 1708-1771) to create a work modeled after Guanxiu 貫休 (832-912)’s ... -
"Finding Rome in Rome": Reexamining Raphael's Transformation Through His Roles at the Villa Farnesina
As an iconic figure of the Renaissance, Raphael has been the subject of extensive scholarly study. His contributions to the Roman villa of Agostino Chigi, now known as the Villa Farnesina, however, have garnered minimal ... -
From the Mouths of Babes: Putti as Moralizers in Four Prints by Master H.L.
The German Renaissance wood sculptor and engraver known as Master H.L. left behind only a small body of printed works from his career in the early sixteenth century. Among these prints four are tied together by their ... -
Gathering jade and assembling splendor: the life and art of Tseng Yuho
(2001)Painter, calligrapher, teacher, and scholar, Tseng Yuho's achievements in the field of Chinese art history are many. Her contributions as artist and scholar and the development of dsui hua, the collage-like technique that ...