Browsing History of Art and Architecture (Scholarly Publications) by Title
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Metadata: how we relate to images
(Lethaby Gallery, London, 2018)One might justly claim that metadata is ubiquitous, structuring our interactions with the world in manifold ways. As data about other data, metadata describes and classifies information; among its best-known applications ... -
The Museum Building's radical polychromy
(Four Courts Press, 2019)The radical polychromy of the Museum Building at Trinity College Dublin did not emerge Minerva-like from the brow of Benajmin Woodward, but rather from an imbrication of architecture, geology and engineering ... -
Ornament and craftsmanship in the architecture of James Gibbs
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Permanent expressions of piety: the secular and the sacred in later medieval stone sculpture
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Rethinking the Borders of Islamic art: Paterna ceramics from the fourteenth century to today
(Equinox Publishing Limited, 2022)Recent scholarship in Islamic art and architecture has seen a growing interest in art from the borderlands – the borders of empires, peoples, religions and practices. In this context, the art of Muslim majority populations ... -
Reviving the Artisan Sculptor: The Role of Ruskin, Science and Art Education
(Four Courts Press, 2019)On meeting the O’Sheas in Oxford Ruskin saw them as the ideal of the savage northern workmen, obstinate and generous who by natural instinct brought a fluidity, freshness and life to their work. Dr Henry Acland, ... -
St Patrick's Well
(TRIARC and Associated Editions, 2008)Just off the tree-lined pathway to the Provost’s House Stables is a narrow vault that extends under Nassau Street, close to its junction with Dawson Street. Housed within this vault is a well, reputed to be St Patrick’s ... -
Unfinished business: Thomas Duff of Newry
(2020)The Festschrift is the friend of unfinished research relegated to shelf or drawer, too hard-won and engaging to be forgotten. The date ‘24th April 1985’ is inscribed on a manuscript transcription made at ... -
Visualizing Archaeologies: A Manifesto
(2007)Is archaeology a science? Is archaeology a humanity? What are the politics of spectatorship and archaeological representation? These initial thoughts form the basis for our archaeological explorations. Within current ... -
Was the carver happy while he was about it? Trinity's Museum Building and the Ruskinian principle of happiness
(Liverpool University Press, 2021-02)The Museum Building of Trinity College Dublin (1853-7), by Deane, Son & Woodward, is a seminal work of Ruskinian Gothic architecture, influencing a generation of British and Irish architects, and revolutionising Victorian ...
