RSS 1.0History of Art and Architecture (Theses and Dissertations)
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Art and Material Culture as Instruments of Gendered Self-Fashioning in the Life of Isabel Farnesio (1692-1766)
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2024)This thesis takes as its central focus Isabel Farnesio, exploring the ways in which her engagement with art reflected and buttressed her construction of identity. Born Elisabetta Farnese, the Princess of Parma in 1692, and ... -
The life and work of Harry Clarke (1889-1931)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History of Art and Architecture, 1982)The aim of this thesis is to describe in detail the life, work and career of the artist, not only in terms of his outstanding talents as a stained glass artist and craftsman and as a book illustrator, but also as a vital ... -
The Moxon Tennyson: Illustration and the Making of Meaning. A Contextualisation of the 1857 Illustrated Edition of Alfred Tennyson's Poems, Consisting of a Formal, Art Historical Investigation into its Designs and Engravings with a View to Assessing the Agency of the Image in the Reading of the Poetry
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2024)This doctoral thesis investigates the illustration in the illustrated edition of Alfred Tennyson's Poems (`The Moxon Tennyson') first published in 1857 by Edward Moxon. The 1857 edition contains a total of eighty poems, ... -
European Architectural Draughtsmen in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland: Training, Methods, Office Practice
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2024)The thesis examines the careers of Richard Castle and Johann Gottlieb Borlach, two German draughtsmen who joined the architectural practices of Sir Edward Lovett Pearce and James Gibbs in the first half of the eighteenth ... -
The Testament of Stone: Understanding the past, present, and future cultural significance of the long lives of the Irish high crosses.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2024)The Irish High Crosses are a unique group of monuments that, relative to their size, convey a exceptional amount of information about the early Christian period in which they were made. Over the past one hundred and fifty ... -
Perceptions and uses of Gothic in Irish domestic and ecclesiastical architecture, 1800 - 1815
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History of Art and Architecture, 2016)Perceptions of Gothic in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, and its use in domestic and ecclesiastical architecture in Ireland, 1800-1841' is a study of meaning in Gothic revival architecture. The thesis ... -
Sarah Cecilia Harrison (1863-1941): her art and politics, a critical examination
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2024)This thesis critically assesses Sarah Cecilia Harrison (1863-1941) as an artist, a political activist and a social and cultural campaigner. In each of these roles she was an instigator rather than follower. The account ... -
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. ... -
The Topographical Prints of Louis Meunier: A Study of a Representation of Spain in the Seventeenth Century and its Extended Afterlife
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2024)This thesis examines the representation of Spanish and Portuguese cities in an album of topographical views made by Louis Meunier, a printmaker operating in Paris in the second half of the seventeenth century. The set of ... -
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 ... -
Roderic O'Conor 1860-1940
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History of Art and Architecture, 1992)This study documents the life and work of the Irish artist Roderic O'Conor, placing his drawings, prints, and paintings in their appropriate historical context. -
Representations of music in nineteenth-century French art
(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 ... -
Irish book shrines: a reassessment
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History of Art and Architecture, 2000)The aim of this thesis is to attempt to determine the dates and sequence of the constructional phases of the Irish book shrines. There are eight known book shrines from Ireland, and in order of chronology they are: the ... -
Studies in eighteenth-century building history
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History of Art and Architecture, 1998)This study examines the constructional patterns of early Irish classical buildings from the end of the seventeenth century until the beginning of the nineteenth century. It also defines the operational patterns of artisans ... -
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 ... -
The power of display: exhibition cultures and exhibited cultures in Ireland 1973-1991
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2020)This research project presents a methodological and theoretical framework for conducting research on the knowledge-making capacity of museum displays in Ireland. As active agents in the production of knowledge, museum ... -
The painting techniques and workshop practices of Guido Reni
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History of Art and Architecture, 2017)The intention of this thesis is to produce an account of the workshop practices of the seventeenth-century Bolognese painter, Guido Reni. Reni was a painter of great eminence in seicento Italy; a contemporary and competitor ... -
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 ... -
Architectural patronage in Ireland : the early Anglo-Norman lords
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History of Art and Architecture, 2010)This thesis explores the relationship between patronage and architecture in medieval Ireland through an examination of the personal histories and experiences of three key patrons - Hugh de Lacy, John de Courcy and William ... -
All There in the Weave: Duality and Unity in the Art of Richard Tuttle
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2019)This investigation into the art of the seminal American Postminimalist Richard Tuttle (1941- ) responds to a 2014-15 survey show at the Tate Modern Turbine Hall and Whitechapel Gallery, London, which spotlighted the ...
