Now showing items 71-78 of 78
Revolutions in Parallel: The Rise and Fall of Drawing in Architectural Design.
(2009)
This dissertation examines how the foundational principles of architectural design are influenced and reflected the discipline’s conceptual media. The first section explores the transition to drawing as architecture’s ...
Episodes in Political Illusion: The Proliferation of War Imagery in France (1804-1856).
(2010)
This dissertation investigates a neglected, yet central component of nineteenth-century visual culture in France, namely the proliferation of war imagery across a range of established and emergent visual forms including ...
Strategies of Communication in the Shrines of Pompeii.
(2011)
The Roman city was a landscape of shrines. Located in houses, bars, streets, workshops, and markets, they represented religious practice in every sphere of life. These private shrines were more than just objects of ritual, ...
Painting in New Media.
(2010)
This project is a reappraisal of the accepted view that radical new forms of art dominating the New York art scene from the late fifties, such as assemblage and installation, represent a rupture with painting. On the ...
The Prestige of the Foreign: Devotional painting in Genoa, 1450-1530
(2023)
“The Prestige of the Foreign: Devotional Painting in Genoa 1450–1530” examines visual art production in the Mediterranean port city of Genoa through period conceptions of foreignness and mobility. With a preponderance of ...
Printed, Painted, and Illuminated: Venetian Visual Culture at the Dawn of Print (1469-1517)
(2023)
After movable type arrived in Venice in 1469, the Venetian print industry quickly established itself as the preeminent European center for the production of books. This was due to Venice’s position as a nexus of essential ...
Military Manhood: Visualizing the Common Soldier in French and British Art and Culture, 1871-1914
(2022)
In the decades between the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871) and World War I (1914–1918), military artists in France and Britain increasingly focused on the motif of the common soldier. At once an individual subject, figural ...
Novel Impressions: Prints, Textiles, and the Visual Economy in Europe, 1815-1851
(2021)
During a key transitional period within the Industrial Revolution between the conclusion of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and the 1851 opening of the Great Exhibition of All Nations, British and French textile designers ...