History of Art and Architecture

Recent Submissions

  • Representations of music in nineteenth-century French art 

    Pittion, Una (Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2021)
    In the abundant production shown in Salons - official and non-official - during the Second Empire and the Third Republic until 1900, a number of paintings have music as their theme. They form occasional clusters, corresponding ...

  • The Architecture of the Church of St Patrick and St Brigid 

    Tierney, Andrew (2021)
    The post-famine period saw a boom in Catholic church building across Ireland. County Kildare, as home to Maynooth College (1795; 1845) and Clongowes Wood College (1814), was at the forefront of Catholic religious revival ...

  • The Georgian Castle at Clongowes 

    Tierney, Andrew (2020)
    The history of the castle at Clongowes is long and complicated, with several phases of reconstruction and expansion. The imposing facades overlook the long avenue to the front, the pleasure grounds to the north and the ...

  • Unfinished business: Thomas Duff of Newry 

    Casey, Christine (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 ...

  • The Museum Building's radical polychromy 

    Casey, Christine (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 ...

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