Browsing History of Art and Architecture (Theses and Dissertations) by Title
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Architecture and aspiration : building Dublin's Victorian suburbs
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History of Art and Architecture, 2013)The project is an interdisciplinary investigation of Victorian domestic architecture in Dublin, within the broader context of the nineteenth-century city. The study is centred on the developments and acquisitions of three ... -
Art and devotions to the Passion of Christ in Ireland, 1450-1650
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History of Art and Architecture, 2012)Passion devotion was an important element of the spiritual lives of the Irish Catholics who lived between the years 1450 and 1650. This interdisciplinary study explores the possible interpretations and uses of devotional ... -
Art and the Irish Free State - visualizing nationhood (1922 - 1934)
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2020)This thesis examines how the Irish Free State harnessed visual art for its political purposes in the 1922-34 period. The time frame chosen for this study is purposeful. It spans two different Post-Treaty government ... -
Art-historical thematic research collections: from theory to practice. Case study: Paintings of the interior of the Oude Kerk in delft
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2018)This thesis explores a thematic collection of architectural paintings of the Oude Kerk in Delft that belong to a unique genre of architectural paintings that flourished in the Dutch Republic around the middle of the ... -
Billy Quinn: An Artist for a Time of Plague, Work from the 1990s
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History of Art and Architecture, 2017)This thesis concerns the work of the artist Billy Quinn during the decade of the 1990s. It was a very productive time for him, and a period during which he returned to a much-changed Ireland having spent a number of years ... -
British imagination, colonial ideology and the representation of landscape space in nineteenth-century Southern Africa
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Building British identity : British architects and the Tudor-Revival country house in Ulster, 1825-50
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History of Art and Architecture, 2014)This thesis is an examination of the eight Tudor-Revival country houses designed by the British architects Thomas Rickman, Edward Blore, William Walker and George Sudden in the province of Ulster between 1825 and 1850. It ... -
Building the Butler Lordship, 1405-c.1552
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Building the Great Northern Railway (Ireland): Design, Communication and Construction
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2024)On Wednesday 17 December 1834 the first passenger railway line in Ireland opened. Over the next four decades thousands of miles of railway lines were constructed across the island, creating an expansive network of connectivity. ... -
Commerce and the Celtic Revival : the history of the Irish facsimile industry, 1840-1940
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History of Art and Architecture, 2013)Broadly speaking, this thesis has demonstrated that as a category facsimiles of Irish archaeological jewellery and metalwork are not merely derivative works, but have aesthetic and cultural value worthy of a devoted study. ... -
Context and subtext of religious art in Madrid during the reign of Philip IV
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Early medieval artistic styles in the Romanesque : 'archaic' architectural sculpture in 11th-13th century Tuscany
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History of Art and Architecture, 2007)This dissertation deals with a type of sculpture that occurs in many Romanesque churches in Tuscany, whose most essential characteristic is the recreation of styles prevalent in early medieval metalwork and marble relief ... -
Experiences of establishing and managing 'artist-run' exhibition spaces in Dublin, from 2005 to 2015.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2019)This thesis explores the phenomenon of visual arts exhibition organisations known as 'artist-run spaces' in Dublin, from 2005 to 2015. This marks a period of unprecedented growth of the phenomenon, followed by a rapid ... -
The Faddan More Psalter – A study of the early medieval book-making techniques and codicology of a recently discovered eighth-century Irish Psalter and an examination of its features and materials which suggest influences both domestic and remote in its materiality and manufacture.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2019)When in 2006 an early medieval insular manuscript surfaced from the Faddan More Bog in North Co. Tipperary, the event afforded a unique opportunity to study in detail all aspects of what is now 'one of the National Museum ... -
Four illustrators William Brunton, Paul Gray, Mathew Lawless, William McConnell
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History of Art and Architecture, 1983)Excerpt from introduction: Between 1855 and 1870 the standard of the art of illustrated magazines in England rose to a new height. There was no single reason for this, it was the result of social, economic, legislative, ... -
Francesco Camilliani and the Florentine garden of Don Luigi de Toledo : a study of fountain production and consumption in the third quarter of the 16th century
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History of Art and Architecture, 2004)This thesis focuses on the most ambitious sculptural complex created for a private garden in Florence in the third quarter of the 16th century. The main feature of this complex was a large fountain, which was sold to the ... -
The Geological sublime in Victorian landscape painting
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2019)Very little has been written about the sublime in Victorian landscape painting and it is more commonly associated with the Romantic period. Nevertheless, an examination of the work of mid-nineteenth-century artists shows ... -
Illuminating Irish American Identity: Harry Clarke Stained Glass Studios' Ecclesiastical Commissions in the USA c.1950-1970
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2023)Clarke Studios was established in 1930 and operated as a business making stained glass for more than forty years after the death of its founder, the artist Harry Clarke (1889-1931). In that period windows were made for ... -
Imitation, novelty and eclecticism in the architecture of Domenichino
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History of Art and Architecture, 2011)This thesis is a building by building i.e. drawing by drawing analysis of Domenichino's entire architectural oeuvre. Focusing on the aspect of imitation as a concept in art theory this examination is largely structured ... -
Into the Void: Text and Image in Nordic Art 1890-1915
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2019)Into the Void: Text and Image in Nordic Art 1890-1915 Kerstina Mortensen Illness, Death, and the Psychological Self; fuelled by European pessimism and the perceived degeneration of society at the turn of the 20th Century, ...