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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
