Roudnice monastery in the Kingdom of Bohemia has fascinated scholars due to two facts regarding its cultural context; first, the Prague bishop Jan IV of …
This study concentrates on the court practices of circulation and exchange of objects between Portugal and sub-Saharan Africa, as well as between Portugal and other …
In 1930, American photographer Margaret Bourke-White (1904–1971) traveled to the Soviet Union on her first trip abroad. Her auspicious visit occurred during a moment of …
In 1667, Gian Lorenzo Bernini—the most celebrated Italian artist of his day—received a papal commission to design ten marble angels carrying the relics of the …
Architectural authenticity is a theoretical concept with tangible consequences. Differing definitions of authenticity yield multiple methods of historic preservation, which in turn alter how users …
It has long been acknowledged that one of the most influential urban planners of the twentieth century, Ebenezer Howard, began his career as a social …
This dissertation brings together the work of a group of contemporary social theorists, art critics, and artists, including Slavoj Zizek, Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri, …
This study is about topographical photography of nineteenth-century British India, and the critical interpretation of that imagery. From the mid-eighteenth century, British makers of topographical …
This project foregrounds the connections between American, European, and Latin American influences in American art history as signaled by the use of “transnational” in my …
From 1382, when the ideas of theologian John Wycliffe (c.1328-1384) were deemed heretical by the Church, England was gripped by a debate about the role …
This study examines the history and architecture of female Franciscan monasteries following the Order of Sorores minores inclusae (Enclosed sisters minor) whose rule was co-written …
Between 1382 and 1400, Margaret of Flanders (1350-1405), the duchess of Burgundy, worked with an architect and an army of artisans to create the château …
This thesis is concerned with color’s presentness and ubiquity in digital technology and with the implications of these aspects as reflected in artistic practices engaging …
The noblewomen-turned-oblates who commissioned the impressive body of imagery at Tor de'Specchi were at once pious servants of God and savvy consumers of art, reflecting …
This examination of a little known German building type of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Ledigenheim, or home for single individuals, is an …
In the early twentieth-century, Spain and Portugal hosted three international expositions under the fascist dictatorships of Miguel Primo de Rivera and António Salazar. The primary …
The history of the charitable food space is one fraught with hardship, class conflict, and socio-economic struggle. Despite these problems, urban agriculture has become a …
This dissertation examines the intersections of food, politics, city, and the environment during fascist Italy. Using Rome as an example, the capital that was heavily …
The promoters, collectors, and artists in Düsseldorf and the transformations within Rhenish cultural, economic, and political identity made the turn-of-the-twentieth century a critical period for …
This dissertation examines the physical implications of a medieval woman's transition from secular to monastic life through comparative and contextual analysis of the domestic rooms …
This dissertation investigates the Virgin of Le Puy, a famous Black Madonna sculpture destroyed in 1794. It uses inventories, pilgrim badges, liturgical texts, written description …
In 1917, British forces moved into Palestine and conquered the Ottoman territory. This began a British rule of Palestine that ended in 1948 after the …
Ownership of photographic depictions was as contentious in the nineteenth century as it is today. In 1852, a photography journal queried: “Why is it that …
My dissertation considers visual modes of memory in Chinese paintings through site-specific landscape images of Nanjing from the seventeenth century. Nanjing is ideal for examining …
This dissertation examines government mass housing schemes that were developed for the working-class population of Barbados during the mid-twentieth century. Starting in the late 1930s, …
In the campaign to bring electricity to the American farm, the New Deal’s Rural Electrification Administration (REA) enlisted architecture to ideological and propagandistic ends. Though …
This dissertation examines the reciprocal influence of Eadweard Muybridge’s motion studies from Animal Locomotion and the researches of the artists and scientists who worked with …
This dissertation examines how the political functions of princely portraits in sixteenth-century Europe informed the development of early modern state portraiture. I specifically focus on …
The 1975 George Eastman Museum exhibition New Topographics redefined the subject of landscape photography as the built environment, but its premise of a “neutral” style …
This dissertation examines the paper-based artworks of the Neapolitan-American image maker Nicolino Calyo (1799–1884). As a drawing instructor, portraitist, topographical view painter, designer of book …
Artists were among the many cultural and political pilgrims who traveled or expatriated from the United States to Mexico after its Revolution (c. 1910-1920) in …
This dissertation examines how pictorial printmaking in Rome promoted cultural and artistic networks connecting Italy and the Spanish Empire in the second-half of the sixteenth …
Qiao Zhongchang’s (active early twelfth century) Red Cliff is a multiple-scene handscroll illustrating Su Shi’s (1037–1101) narrative poem, “The Second Prose Poem on the Red …
This dissertation explores the relationship between character and caricature in Britain during the second half of the eighteenth century. I examine the boundaries of character …
This study of the Antwerp Saint Luke's Guild investigates how the guild's operations and social connections shaped artistic production and the status of artists in …
Lewis Hine employed a variety of narrative strategies to create a persuasive and moving 'social photography' in the early twentieth century. Despite the longstanding supposition …
Most banners, flags, and other types of portable images, once prestigious signs of identity for the groups that carried them in processions, have disappeared through …
This project studies the Antwerp workshop of the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640). Producing over 2.500 compositions and connecting over a hundred collaborators, this …
The present study reveals several overlooked discussions of architectural space which took place across a politically and economically diverse early postwar Germany. Architectural, urban, and …
This study examines the integral role that the Order of Saint Stephen held in promoting and actualizing Duke Cosimo I de’Medici’s ambitious plans to transform …
This dissertation examines the visualization of abstract ideas -- ideas that were in many ways inseparable from Revolutionary France -- in British political graphic satire …
In the aftermath of the Dutch Revolt, the revitalization and strengthening of Catholicism in the Spanish Low Countries was physically manifested in the hundreds of …
American photographer Doug Rickard’s 2010 project “A New American Picture” represents the poorest neighborhoods in the United States as captured by Google Street View cameras. …
This dissertation examines the context and emergence of several architectural space time notation systems created during the 1950s and 1960s in the United States to …
Abstract of “‘Art on the Edge between Creation and Dissolution’: Nakhwa, the Korean Pyrography,” by He Ri Kwon, Degree M.A., Brown University, May 2020. This …
What is photography? This deceptively simple question was foundational to the creation of photographic theory in the early 1970s, and has remained central to scholars …