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Showing 1 to 20 of 163 for “"History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology"”.
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The Marian Paintings of Jan Van Eyck
This study confronts a curious situation in the History of Art. Jan van Eyck has been long recognized as a great master, and perhaps the key figure in Northern panel painting of the fifteenth century. Of the approximately thirty recognized works that have come down to us from his hand, roughly half …
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The Iconographic Owl through the Eyes of American Artists: From Native Americans to Joseph Cornell
… a symbol for the Americas, as well as the rest of the world since people could write. It is a symbol with many meanings to Native Americans, from guardian to an omen of approaching death; the owl’s presence could be both a blessing and a curse. As western society spread American artists used the …
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Italians and the New Byzantium: Lombard and Venetian Architects in Muscovy, 1472-1539
… identity was shaped by the built environment and, likewise, how the built environment was a result of an emerging Russian identity. I focus on the years 1472 to 1539 because they were crucial to the formation of this early modern Russian identity. Muscovite princes, seeking to rebuild Moscow's …
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Modern Time: Photography and Temporality
… dissertation explores the fluid relationship of photography to time. Many theorists have noted that photography has a distinctive manner of representing temporality. Roland Barthes, for example, wrote that the photograph has a peculiar capacity to represent the past in the present, and thus to …
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Changing Identities in a Changing Land: The Romanization of the British Landscape
<p>This thesis will examine the changes in the landscape of Britain resulting from the Roman invasion in 43 CE and their effect on the identities of the native Britons. Romanization, as the process is commonly called, and evidence of these altered identities as seen in material culture have been …
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Universal Expositions of the Second Empire: A Study in Art and Politics (Volumes I and II)
… the Second Empire (1852-1870), the world of art changed rapidly from one that had preserved many aspects of centuries old tradition, to one that developed most of the attitudes and institutions of our modern era. Universal Expositions, combining art and politics, acted as catalysts for …
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Creating Art and Artists: Late Nineteenth-Century American Artists' Studios
<p>This dissertation examines the studios of American painters and sculptors working in the cosmopolitan era of the late nineteenth century. Between the Philadelphia Centennial and World War I, most makers of fine art worked in studios furnished with old furniture, personal mementos, historic …
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Function and Architecture of the Principal Residences of the Tetrarchy: An Assessment of Their Capitalness
<p>The system of the tetrarchy, literally “the rule of four emperors”, was initiated by Emperor Diocletian in 294 A.D. and lasted till 305 A.D. In this period, Diocletian and Galerius ruled the east of the empire, and Maximian and Constantius Chlorus the west. The third century was a time when the …
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Specific Objects: Lee Bontecou’s Steel and Canvas Reliefs, 1959-1964
<p>This dissertation focuses on the reception and interpretation of the welded steel and canvas reliefs that the American artist Lee Bontecou created between 1959 and 1964.In Chapter 1,I present an overview of the initial critical reception of Bontecou’s steel and canvas reliefs, highlighting those …
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Inspired Invention: Cristóbal de Villalpando's Paintings of the Life of Saint Francis
<p>This project is an in-depth study of Cristóbal de Villalpando’s cycle of paintings depicting the life of Saint Francis of Assisi, commissioned in 1691 for the Franciscan Convent in Antigua, Guatemala. This seminal group has not been the subject of a focused study since 1986 and the sources of …
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Imperial/Non-Imperial Encounters in the Gulf during the Late Pre-Islamic Period: The Glazed Pottery from Southeastern Arabia and Tepe Yahya, Iran
<p>This dissertation proposes a method of combining formal, contextual, and geochemical ceramic analyses to investigate an encounter between imperial and non-imperial societies evidenced in the archaeological record. Glazed pottery from Mesopotamia appeared in southeastern Arabia and southeastern …
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Text and Images of Authority: The Inscribed Seals from the Persepolis Fortification Archive
… Fortification archive, a large archive of administrative tablets dating to the early years of Darius I (509-493 BCE), preserves impressions of over 4,000 distinct and legible seals. 174 of these approximately 4,000 seals carry both figural imagery and text in their designs. This …
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Radiant Sites: Projection and the Mobile Spectator in Contemporary Moving-Image Installations
… installations that use projected images to expand and elaborate upon the cinematic experience. It focuses on works by Douglas Gordon (b. 1966), Jim Campbell (b. 1956), and the partnered artists Janet Cardiff (b. 1957) and George Bures-Miller (b. 1960), all of whom have reconfigured the …
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Mycenaean Masonry Practices and Elements of Construction
<p>This dissertation is a study of the basic practices and primary elements of construction in Mycenaean architecture: foundations, terraces, rubble, and ashlar masonry, cyclopean masonry and its relation to circuit walls. Special consideration is given to conglomerate masonry in the circuit walls …
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Curiosity and Collection in the Constcamer Paintings of Frans II Francken (1581-1642)
<p>This dissertation investigates the ontology of the Flemish “gallery painting” genre by focusing on its understudied inventor, Frans II Francken (1581-1642), within the aesthetic and intellectual context of early modern curiosity culture and its discursive manifestation in posticonoclastic …
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Natus Diformis: Hermaphrodites in Greek and Roman Art
<p>Hermaphroditos, the personage in Greek and Roman myth and iconography possessing both male and female sexual features, first appears in Greek literary and epigraphical sources in the fourth century B.C., although a pedigree as the offspring of Hermes is not provided before the mid-first century …
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Decoding Meaning in Athenian Vase-Painting of the Archaic and Classical Periods: A Study of Expressions of Communication and Targeted Audiences
<p>This study advances our understanding of Athenian vase-paintings of the Archaic and Classical periods by examining scenes of communication from two perspectives: how communication is expressed within depictions of multi-figure scenes and how messages are encoded through the vase to the viewer. I …
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Representations of Human and Satyr Children Through Stages of Childhood Development in Athenian Art of the Sixth to the Fourth Century B.C.E. An Iconographical and Contextual Approach.
… through images on Attic vases, plaques, and votive reliefs. A six-stage model of childhood development – newborn to adolescence – was designed to appraise the ages of children. This new model allows for more precise age determination, especially for the youngest children (birth to three …
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The Sculpture of Roman Minturnae
<p><em>The Sculpture of Roman Minturnae</em> catalogues by types all pieces of sculpture found at a provincial town in Latium which flourished from 295 B.C. until the sixth century A.C. Although most pieces have been previously published, the bibliography of each is brought up to date and new …
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The Danger of Visual Seduction: Netherlandish Prints of Susanna and the Elders
<p>In 1563, the Council of Trent issued a decree which stated, "...all lasciviousness is to be avoided, so that images shall not be painted and adorned with seductive charm." In the wake of this mandate, and other Netherlandish mandates intended to bolster the Council's decrees, prints of the …
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