Browsing UT Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Department "Art History"
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A personal treasure : the Baltimore-Helmarshausen Psalter (Walters Art Museum MS W. 10) and its originally-intended owner
(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)
(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
(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
(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
(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 ... -
Altars and Empire : studies in Roman altars and divine kingship (c.300 B.C.- A.D. 96)
(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
(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 ... -
An emperor for a master : slaves in the palaces of Augustus and Nero
Traditionally, scholars portray the palaces of imperial Rome as spaces for interaction between the emperor and his elite guests while erasing the majority of the familia urbana that populated these sprawling structures: ... -
Andy Warhol's cinema beyond the lens
(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
(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
(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 ... -
Architecture of the Islamic frontier : architectural sources and urbanism in the Aydinid principality (1304-1390)
The conquest of western Anatolia by the Turcoman peoples in the early fourteenth century engendered the largest building program in the region since late antiquity. Involved in this program were not only forms of religious ... -
Asserting authority : the canons' use of the Theophilus legend and Marian imagery at Notre-Dame in Paris
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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 ...
