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Showing 1 to 20 of 163 for “"History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology"”.
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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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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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The Social Dynamics of Early Helladic Sealing Practices: Seal Use and Social Change in Early Bronze Age Greece
<p>This study investigates the role of administrative sealing practices in the emergence of social complexity in Early Helladic (EH) period (ca. 3100-2000 BCE) Greece. Archaeologists associate emerging complexity in mainland Greece with key developments in the EH period, including sealing …
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The Caliph’s Prey: Hunting in the Visual Cultures of the Umayyad Empire
<p>This dissertation interprets images of hunting in architectural decoration produced throughout the early Islamic Umayyad caliphate (ca. 661750 CE) as a series of dialogs between the ArabMuslim conquerors and their conquered subjects. Through four case studies I argue that conquered peoples who …
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Lotte Reiniger and the Animated Ornament in Experimental Film
… created over sixty fairy tale films composed of ornate silhouettes shot on an animation table of her own design. She founded an experimental animation studio, collaborated with artists associated with the avant-garde, and published essays that must now be counted among the earliest tracts of …
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Finding the Local within the Global: A Comparative Study of Public Architecture and Urban Development in Roman-period Lycia
<p>This study contributes to the growing body of scholarship that utilizes globalization theory as a means of exploring changes in material culture and urban society in the Roman provinces, focusing on the understudied region of Lycia et Pamphylia. More specifically, it takes a multi-scalar …
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The contribution of psychosocial factors to speech comprehension in normal aging: “What did you say?”
… studies have shown that negative stereotypes of aging cause a significant reduction in memory performance, as well as on other cognitive tasks, in older adults. Despite literature detailing the increasing difficulty with listening comprehension in older age, no study to date has examined the …
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The Terracotta Altars of Morgantina: A Study of the Form, Production, Use, and Development of Arulae from Hellenistic Sicily
… dissertation establishes the first systematic and comprehensive study of cylindrical terracotta altars, often referred to as arulae. Arulae are considered characteristic of the material culture of Hellenistic Sicily and thought to represent a significant body of evidence for domestic cult …
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The [Il]legibility of Character: Gesture, Costume, and Identity in Goya
… relationship between clothing or costume and identity merits a sustained analysis in Francisco Goya's art. This thesis explores the various meanings of fashion current in eighteenth-century Spain, a time period in which fashionability was a source of instability, both in terms of the …
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Art and Evangelization at the Sixteenth-Century Convento of Santiago Apóstol at Cuilapan, Mexico
<p>Dominican friars founded numerous churches and monasteries to evangelize the indigenous populations of Mexico. Although they presumably conceived the architectural plans and decorative schemes of these establishments, the resultant structures were constructed and adorned primarily by native …
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Visions of their Land: Młoda Polska & The Making of Landscape
<p>This dissertation focuses on the landscape art produced by artists of the Młoda Polska (Young Poland) movement, active ca. 1890-1914. This period of art-making coincides with the condition of non-sovereignty. Poland as a nation-state ceased to exist from 1795 to 1918, partitioned by imperial …
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Curiosity and the Ideal: Anatomical Investigation and the Gendered Imagination in Sixteenth-Century Florentine Art
… dissertation has as its subject the intersection of medical and artistic visions of the human body in early to mid sixteenth-century Florence. Prominent Florentine artists in the first half of the sixteenth century, such as Michelangelo, Rosso Fiorentino, Baccio Bandinelli, and Francesco Salviati, …
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Rembrandt’s Spaces
… increase in scholarship devoted to the study of pictorial spaces in seventeenth-century Netherlands. While much light has been shed on the spaces of such artists as Nicholaes Maes and Pieter de Hooch, those of Rembrandt have not been the objects of a scholarly gaze. Sparsely illuminated with …
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Bronzino and the Style(s) of Mannerisms
<p>This dissertation focuses on the paintings of the Florentine Mannerist Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572) and what we call the difference in their styles, which we set within the larger framework of Mannerism as a particular moment in art history.</p> <p>It is clear that Bronzino’s paintings, as …
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Sophie Calle: Her(e) but Not Her(e)
<p>This monographic dissertation on the work of Sophie Calle begins by charting her very literal alliance with philosopher, Michel Foucault, and their shared work with the Prison Information Group in France in the early 1970’s. Having established this common connection between the artist and …
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Art, Trade, and Patronage in Seventeenth-Century Lima: Francisco de Zurbarán's Commission for the Convent of La Encarnación
… de Zurbarán (1598-1664) was the most famous of the Sevillian painters who participated in the overseas art trade. The artist sent several hundred works to destinations in the viceroyalty of Peru during his career. While his participation in this long-distance endeavor can be documented …
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