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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"wall painting"”.
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Two case studies of the manufacturing techniques & conservation of Baroque wall painting in Malta : Leonello Spada & Mattia Preti
… materials and techniques of two Baroque wall paintings in Malta. Both cycles, painted by Leonello Spada (1576-1622) and Mattia Preti (1613-1699) are situated in the capital city, Valletta, in the Magisterial Palace and in St John's Co-Cathedral respectively. Spada and Preti were summoned …
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Frustrated desire and controlling fictions : the natural world in ancient pastoral literature and art
… then compared with examples from Roman landscape wall painting, which provide fictional representations of plants that can physically create a space in which desires can be inspired, enunciated, or acted upon. Second, inversions of nature, adynata, in pastoral literature offer a way for the …
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Abstraction Unframed: Abstract Murals In New York, 1935-1960
… their abstractions and expand them into wall-filling murals. This dissertation analyzes moments from the history of unframed abstraction during modernism’s rise and popularity in the United States, from ca. 1935 to ca. 1960, in and around New York. Scholars have generally treated such …
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Origins of Roman art
… well as a chapter on Etruscan art. These include wall painting, terracotta sculpture, and basic architecture, and how the Etruscan approach to Greek inspirations later became the same pattern followed by the Romans. The next two chapters deal with Roman cultural cha-racteristics that brought about …
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Painting History in Mid-Century America: A Case Study of Friedel Dzubas’s Mature Style
My thesis, “Painting History in Mid-Century America: A Case Study of Friedel Dzubas’s Mature Style (1970s)” examines why Friedel Dzubas—an American artist of German descent whose friends and supporters included the powerful critic Clement Greenberg and the artists in his circle, among them Morris …
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A multimodal analysis of unusual copper-containing blue and green pigments in the early modern painter’s palette
… blue pigments in early modern English decorative wall painting dating from 1550-1650. By the late sixteenth century, large-scale decorative wall paintings were found in a wide range of buildings of different status and function. The quality and choice of materials and the way in which colour was …
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Legacy on the wall in Adolph Menzel’s Studio Wall paintings
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-20 without embargo terms
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The Artistic Patronage of the Augustinian Friars in Central Italy (1256-c. 1370)
… different media – illuminated manuscripts, panel paintings, wall paintings, and shrines – both as individual pieces, and combined as part of the church interior. By building on extensive field work, my research brings into conversation a wide array of dispersed artefacts, isolated hermitages, and …