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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"wall paintings"”.
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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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Roman Paintings from Panayia Field, Corinth, Greece: A Contextual Study
<p>This dissertation focuses on the unpublished wall paintings from Panayia Field, Corinth, Greece and examines the paintings within their archaeological, architectural, and cultural contexts at Roman Corinth. The paintings from Panayia Field originally decorated two distinct phases of domestic …
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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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Murals and the Development of Merchant Activity at Chichen Itza
… study proposes a chronological sequence for the wall paintings by examining their style, subject matter, and architectural setting. Analysis of the painted images demonstrates the progressive development of merchant activity in the city and its influence in establishing Chichen Itza as one of the …
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The Hidden Power of Images: An Allegory of Chaos and Performance in the Digital Age
… I illude to the performativity of life. Large wall paintings and wooden prop pieces create an inhabitable space or stage where viewers can step into the work. The viewers’ physical image and identity collides with the images that give our lives, experiences, and perceptions context. I aim to …
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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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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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The Etruscan Aphrodite
… themes, but the majority appear on vases, wall paintings and mirrors. Bronze mirrors represent the best examples of the mixture of Greek myths and Etruscan religious and ritual customs within the context of these female-owned objects. The appearance of Turan and/or her attendants on such …
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Natus Diformis: Hermaphrodites in Greek and Roman Art
… in marble, bronze and terracotta figurines, wall paintings, in a few mosaics and on gems. The distribution of these objects ranges from points in Italy, Austria, France, and England to Greece, Cyprus, Asia Minor and North Africa. Through this survey of Hermaphroditos in Greek and Roman art I …
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Monkey and Ape Iconography in Minoan Art
… These media include figurines, glyptic art, and wall paintings. First, a review of the stylistic features of Minoan art and the possibility for the use of pattern books is discussed. Next, monkey and ape iconography in Egyptian art is explored. A thorough review of the creatures’ iconography in …
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The Art of Burial in the Medieval Nile Valley: Christian and Islamic Interchange in Religious Funerary Contexts
… dead.</p> <p>Over three parts, focusing on 1) wall paintings depicting the blessed in heaven and damned in hell; 2) garments shrouding deceased bodies; and 3) grave markers where mourners congregated, I argue that these differences in belief concerning the circumstances of the dead shaped the …
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Visual Culture Of The Santals And Their Image: Myth, Morals And Materiality
… This thesis considers multiple forms of art – wall paintings, sacrificial geometry, musical instruments, marriage articles, paper paintings and shields used in war and dance – to understand the aesthetic eco-system of the Santals. But the emphasis is on three key artefacts that embody their …
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Containing Meaning: Miniature Pottery on Bronze Age Crete
… culture, including figurines, seals, miniature wall paintings, and models, miniature pottery appears to be one facet of a larger semiotic ideology – one well-versed in the language and power of the miniature. This thesis investigates the use, significance, and meaning of miniature ceramic …
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The door motif in Roman art: 200 BCE – 320 CE
… in funerary contexts or occasionally in domestic wall paintings. The two most extensive publications on the door motif, now forty-five years old, are incomplete and focus largely on the door’s symbolic meaning. My dissertation compiles and updates this existing scholarship to present the only …
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Graffiti, memory and contested space : mnemonic initiatives following trauma and/or repression in Buenos Aires, Argentina
… (stencils, spray-paint, signatures, etchings, wall-paintings, murals and installations) is used to make these spaces transmit particular memories that impugn official versions of the past. This thesis draws on literatures focused on popular/public memory. Scholars argue that memory is socially …
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Configurations of the Symbolism of the Bull in Early Late Bronze Age Crete: A Case Study in the Interpretation of Minoan Religion
… The study of vessels and figurines and wall paintings with bull representations brings together evidence, which is usually treated separately, and attempts to promote a holistic interpretation on the subject without sacrificing the multiplicity of meaning. It reveals aspects of the …
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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 …
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The fresco cycle in the Lombard Church of Santa Maria di Castelseprio
The church of Santa Mana outside the walls of the ruined town of Castelseprio has been the focus of a controversy since its discovery in 1944. Its architecture and most importantly its fresco cycle in the east apse deserve a lot of attention in the study of early medieval art. The monument's date …
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Cypriot Donor Portraiture: Constructing the Ideal Family
… 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 used this genre more …
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The Concept of 'Liveliness' in English Visual Culture, c.1560-c.1630
In contrast to the richly visual literature of late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England, the period’s visual art is usually seen as impoverished. Historians have emphasised the views of Protestant divines, for whom images were ‘dead and dumb’, and have focused on the limitations placed …