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San Francesco D'Assisi E Santa Caterina Da Siena. La Loro Influenza Sulla Letteratura, La Cultura, La Religione E L'Arte Italiana Dei Primordi, Ann-Frances Hamill Dec 2006

San Francesco D'Assisi E Santa Caterina Da Siena. La Loro Influenza Sulla Letteratura, La Cultura, La Religione E L'Arte Italiana Dei Primordi, Ann-Frances Hamill

Master's Theses, Dissertations, Graduate Research and Major Papers Overview

Examines the works and thoughts of two Italian saints: Saint Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) and Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380). Explores the common ideological denominator in the works of these major figures and analyzes their impact on Italian society and culture.


Michelangelo Drawings: Closer To The Master [Review], Patricia Emison Jun 2006

Michelangelo Drawings: Closer To The Master [Review], Patricia Emison

Art & Art History

Patricia Emison's review of a book by Hugo Chapman


The Apostolic Commissioning Of The Monks At Müstair (Graubünden, Switzerland), Jenny Ataoguz May 2006

The Apostolic Commissioning Of The Monks At Müstair (Graubünden, Switzerland), Jenny Ataoguz

Jenny Kirsten Ataoguz

No abstract provided.


Lucas Van Leyden's Dance Around The Golden Calf: The Northern Triptych In The Age Of The Reformation, Jennifer R. Pease Jan 2006

Lucas Van Leyden's Dance Around The Golden Calf: The Northern Triptych In The Age Of The Reformation, Jennifer R. Pease

Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal

This paper focuses on Lucas van Leyden's 1530 triptych Dance Around the Golden Calf. It is shown through a stylistic and iconographic analysis of the painting that it is a piece reflective of the tensions and upheaval prevalent during the Reformation-era society in which it was produced. This was a time when Northern European artists such as Lucas began an increase in secularism in their work, demonstrating the dawn of a new era in the church. Lucas effectively uses visual contradiction and psychological implication to respond artistically to the tumultuous age of the Reformation.


Development Of Gendered Space: The Archaic And Classical Greek Temple, Callie Williams Jan 2006

Development Of Gendered Space: The Archaic And Classical Greek Temple, Callie Williams

Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal

Throughout the ancient Greek world, temples marked the landscape as a sign of Greek civilization. Although Greek temples hare been examined, described, and catalogued scientifically since archaeology came of age in the 18th century, the question of their cultural significance in their original Greek context has vet to be fully answered. Many twentieth-century interpreters tended to yoke the history of Greek temples to narratives of modernism, resulting in anachronistic conclusions. Current trends in architectural history have begun to test other interpretative strategies, such as the interrelationship between architecture and the emergence of Greek philosophy. This essay explores the possibilities of …


The World In Venice: Print, The City, And Early Modern Identity By Bronwen Wilson, Monika Schmitter Jan 2006

The World In Venice: Print, The City, And Early Modern Identity By Bronwen Wilson, Monika Schmitter

Monika Schmitter

Reviewed work: Bronwen Wilson. The World in Venice: Print, the City, and Early Modern Identity. Studies in Book and Print Culture. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. xviii + 406 pp. index. illus. bibl. ISBN: 0-8020-8725-6.


Picturing The Celestial City: The Medieval Stained Glass Of Beauvais Cathedral, Michael Watt Cothren Jan 2006

Picturing The Celestial City: The Medieval Stained Glass Of Beauvais Cathedral, Michael Watt Cothren

Art & Art History Faculty Works

The cathedral of Saint-Pierre in Beauvais, France, is most famous as a failure - its choir vaults came crashing down in 1284 - and only secondarily for its soaring beauty. This illustrated book represents the first serious look at the stunning collection of Gothic stained glass windows that has always dominated the experience of those who enter Beauvais Cathedral.


Smart Mobs, Bad Crowds, Godly People And Dead Priests: Crowd Symbols In The Josianic Narrative And Some Mesopotamian Parallels, Steven W. Holloway Jan 2006

Smart Mobs, Bad Crowds, Godly People And Dead Priests: Crowd Symbols In The Josianic Narrative And Some Mesopotamian Parallels, Steven W. Holloway

Libraries

No abstract provided.


Painter And Priest: Giovanni Canavesio's Visual Rhetoric And The Passion Cycle At La Brigue, Véronique Plesch Dec 2005

Painter And Priest: Giovanni Canavesio's Visual Rhetoric And The Passion Cycle At La Brigue, Véronique Plesch

Véronique Plesch

No abstract provided.