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Devotion to the Passion in Milanese Confraternities, 1500-1630: Image, Ritual, Performance.
(2015)
This dissertation examines the visual culture of lay confraternities in Milan dedicated to the Passion of Christ from circa 1500-1630. In three case studies, presented chronologically, I explore how confraternal imagery ...
Superfluous Women: Gender, Art, and Activism After Ukraine's Orange Revolution.
(2015)
Analyzing firsthand interviews, visual art, literature, manifestos, official speeches and other materials, I demonstrate how several contemporary collectives in Kyiv reject past Soviet and Western connotations with feminism ...
Encountering Others, Imagining Modernity: Primitivism in German Ethnology, Art, and Theory.
(2014)
This study incorporates insights from postcolonial theory and new materialism to tell a networked history of primitivism in the German-speaking world from the late nineteenth into the twentieth century. At the fin de siècle, ...
Portraiture and Patronage in Quattrocento Florence with Special Reference to the Tornaquinci and Their Chapel in S. Maria Novella
(1985-03)
Containing over forty portraits, the frescoes by Domenico Ghirlandaio in the cappella maggiore of S. Maria Novella provide the opportunity to investigate the function and context of Quattrocento portraiture. Burckhardt's ...
El Paular: Anatomy of a Charterhouse.
(2012)
The Cartuja de Santa María de El Paular was the first of all Carthusian foundations in Castile, and the sixth of all foundations on the Iberian peninsula. Founded in 1390, the Charterhouse remained a Carthusian establishment ...
Framing a Foreign God: The Tamamushi Shrine and the Opportunites of Buddhism in Early Japan
(2018)
The beginning of Buddhism in Japan has long been narrated through a list of pivotal events recounted in later historical records. Centered on the court as the driving force behind the promulgation of Buddhism, such accounts ...
The Painted Fortified Monastic Churches of Moldavia: Bastions of Orthodoxy in a Post-Byzantine World
(2017)
In the decades after the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the principality of Moldavia—lying within the borders of northeastern modern Romania and the Republic of Moldova—emerged as a Christian frontier at the crossroads ...
Chigo Icons: Representations of Sacred and Sexualized Male Youths in Medieval Japanese Buddhism
(2023)
The twelfth through fifteenth centuries in Japan saw the development of new iconographies of Buddhist divinities in the guise of chigo, or sacred male youths who lived and worked in monastic settings serving senior Buddhist ...
Breaking the Letter: Illegibility as Intersign in Cy Twombly, Steve McCaffery, and Susan Howe.
(2013)
This dissertation analyzes different forms of illegibility in the works of Cy Twombly, Steve McCaffery, and Susan Howe within the context of postwar experimental art and poetry in North America. From the 1950s onward, ...