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      • A personal treasure : the Baltimore-Helmarshausen Psalter (Walters Art Museum MS W. 10) and its originally-intended owner 

        Porambo, Allison Michelle (2017-05)
        Earlier scholarship on the Baltimore-Helmarshausen Psalter (Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, MS W. 10) focuses almost exclusively on the identity of the noblewoman depicted in the full-page owner portrait before the start ...
      • Abdication in an artistic democracy : meaning in the work of Barnett Newman and Donald Judd, 1950-1970 (and thereafter) 

        Lawrence, James Alexander (2006-12)
        This dissertation considers what reticent works of art demand of us, and what purpose their reticence serves. Selected episodes in the careers of Barnett Newman and Donald Judd support a broader discussion of interpretive ...
      • Adventures on paper and in travesía : the School of Valparaíso visualizes America, 1965-1984 

        Bravo, Doris Maria-Reina (2015-05)
        Since 1984 faculty at the School of Architecture and Design at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (PUCV) have experimented with the concept of the traveling studio. In contrast to the typical, one-off trip ...
      • Agent of touch and transformation : a pilgrimage token of Saint Symeon the Younger in the Menil collection 

        Steiner, Shannon P. (2011-05)
        When considering early Byzantine pilgrimage tokens, questions of touch and tactility arise almost instantly. Tokens lack cords or mountings, and so touch is implicit in such objects. Even gazing at them was a form of ...
      • Alexander VI as patron : the style and significance of the Borgia papal frescoes 

        Stamp, Cara Marie; 0000-0001-8338-625X (2015-08)
        In 1492, Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia ascended the throne of St. Peter as Pope Alexander Sextus. Later that same year, Alexander commissioned Perugian artist Bernardino di Betto--more commonly referred to as Pinturicchio--to ...
      • Allegories et symboles dans l'Hortus deliciarum by Gerard Cames 

        Greenhill, Eleanor (Speculum, 1973)
      • Altars and Empire : studies in Roman altars and divine kingship (c.300 B.C.- A.D. 96) 

        Cline, Lea Kimberly (2013-12)
        In the concluding remarks to her 1913 dissertation, Helen Bowerman notes that “[a]lthough the sacrificial altars [sic] form a group of comparatively unimportant monuments.” This study is an attempt to both refute Bowerman’s ...
      • An ecstatic collapse : a re-thinking of Faig Ahmed's Carpet series 

        Hoffman, Kelsey Savannah (2016-08)
        This thesis engages with the critical dialogue surrounding Azerbaijani artist Faig Ahmed’s series of sculptures titled the Carpet series. Offering up a re-thinking of the series, this thesis shapes a nuanced phenomenolog ...
      • Andy Warhol's cinema beyond the lens 

        Weathers, Chelsea Lea (2013-05)
        This dissertation examines a small selection of the hundreds of films made by Andy Warhol and his collaborators between 1963 and 1968. Each chapter contextualizes a particular aspect of Warhol's filmmaking in terms of the ...
      • Animate architecture at Kabah : terminal classic art and politics in the Puuc region of Yucatán, Mexico 

        Rubenstein Dankenbring, Meghan Lee; 0000-0002-6001-6202 (2016-01-22)
        This dissertation explores sociopolitical dynamics in the Puuc region during the Terminal Classic period (c. 750-1000 CE) through a multi-level examination of architectural sculpture. It begins with a broad look at the ...
      • The architectural sculpture of Ivan Meštrović in relation to Adolf von Hildebrand's The problem of form in the fine arts 

        Ritchel, Elaine Dezember (2011-08)
        This thesis investigates the relationship between the architectural sculpture of Croatian sculptor Ivan Meštrović and late nineteenth-century aesthetic theory. Most scholarship on Meštrović emphasizes his Croatian heritage ...
      • Asserting authority : the canons' use of the Theophilus legend and Marian imagery at Notre-Dame in Paris 

        Decker, Meagan Katherine (2013-05)
        The north transept portal at Notre-Dame in Paris depicts the legend of Theophilus. This legend is about a church official who sells his soul to the devil but then repents and is granted salvation with the help of the Virgin. ...
      • At the edge of the Maya world : power, politics, and identity in monuments from the Comitán Valley, Chiapas, Mexico 

        Earley, Caitlin Cargile (2015-05)
        In the Comitán Valley of Chiapas, Mexico, several large Maya centers flourished in the Late Classic (600-900 CE) and Early Postclassic (900-1250 CE) periods. These centers left behind monumental architecture, elaborate ...
      • Barré's Musée secret : reconstructing nineteenth-century French attitudes towards Roman sexual representation 

        Hensley, Tracy Lea (2007-12)
        Europeans of the nineteenth century fixated on the sexual artifacts emerging from Campania's soil. This thesis places the first edition of Louis Barré's Musée Secret, published in 1840, in its historical context and ...
      • Bataille's Manet : the subject at risk 

        Bynum, Cord Isaac (2007-08)
        This study investigates Georges Bataille’s monograph Manet, published in 1955 as part of Albert Skira’s accessible "Taste of Our Time" series. I discuss Bataille’s text as a concentrated expression of his socio-philosophical ...
      • Bernard Van Orley’s tapestry designs for The story of Romulus and Remus, 1524 

        Cordeiro, Catherine Victoria (2013-05)
        Bernard Van Orley’s 1524 preparatory drawings for tapestries depicting The Story of Romulus and Remus have, until now, been largely ignored by art historical scholarship. The only signed and dated drawings in the artist’s ...
      • Between chance and habit : the ink on plastic drawings of Jasper Johns 

        Heno-Coe, Gilles Reginald; 0000-0002-1895-6970 (2017-08-14)
        The ink on plastic drawings of Jasper Johns count as one of his most prolific and enigmatic media, and yet they stubbornly remain the least investigated on their own terms. As early as 1961, Johns became attracted to the ...
      • Beyond the easel : the dissolution of abstract expressionist painting into the realm of architecture 

        Costello, Eileen Elizabeth (2010-08)
        A defining feature of American abstract expressionist painting is its enormous size and scale. Heroic ambition, the vast American landscape, and the sense of "something big" happening in American painting are often cited ...
      • Bodies politic, bodies in stone : imagery of the human and the divine in the sculpture of Late Preclassic Kaminaljuyú, Guatemala 

        Henderson, Lucia (2013-05)
        Bulldozed, effaced, and paved over by the buildings and winding streets of Guatemala City, the vast majority of the archaeological remains of Kaminaljuyú are now lost to us. This early site, which reached its peak during ...
      • Borderlines of labor : Margarita Cabrera’s sculptures and the (un)American dream 

        Dickerson, Sarah Anne (2014-12)
        This thesis contextualizes the work of artist Margarita Cabrera within Chicano, postcolonial, and feminist theories, and specifically places her work within discourses surrounding the United States-Mexico border. I address ...
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