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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"family portraits"”.
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Family Portraits
… more about his history and the history of my family than when he was alive. The first section of this thesis also considers the ways in which we understand the stories of those who have died without leaving an extensive print on history. It struggles to answer the question: How do we …
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The Four Haunted Tyrones: Eugene O'Neill's Autobiographical Family Portraits
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Portraits Through the Lens of Historicity: The American Family as Portrayed in Ladies Home Journal 1950-1959
… associated with communication and the American family have often been the subject of academic research projects. The 1950s family is unique and offers the researcher a complex web of interwoven narratives and situational hermeneutics that have affected the American family. In an attempt to …
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Saltram House: The Evolution of an Eighteenth-Century Country Estate
… two eighteenth-century generations of the Parker family. These dates have been chosen because Saltram’s architecture, interior design and parkland underwent the most drastic changes during this time. It will argue that Saltram conforms to the existing models of country house scholarship on the …
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Elite Identities in Scottish Family Group Portraits, 1740 - 1790
… between gender, national identity and elite family life in Scotland between 1740 and 1790. Family group portraits painted by Scottish artists of Scottish families are examined and contrasted with English counterparts to demonstrate the evolving nature of Scottish identity as performed in the …
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Cypriot Donor Portraiture: Constructing the Ideal Family
This study focuses primarily on donor portraits of families found in Cypriot wall paintings and icons created during the Lusignan and Venetian periods. Although donor portraiture is a mode of expression that dates to antiquity, in the medieval period an increasingly prosperous upper middle class …