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Cartographier L’Essor D’Un Modèle : Le Chapiteau Ionique De Michel-Ange De L’Invention Au Début Du Xviie Siècle, Federica Vermot

Artl@s Bulletin

This study proposes to map the propagation of an alternative type of ionic capital invented by Michelangelo in 1563. We proceed to a comparative analysis of the new buildings erected in Rome from the invention of the new capital to the beginning of the 17th century, in order to highlight spatial and temporal correlations peculiar to its diffusion. The study of this issue allows to understand the perception of the capital that the next generation of roman architects developed, which is a less known aspect of Michelangelo's reception. Overall, it invites to shape the stylistic evolution of an architectural motif.

Analysis Of Jacques-Louis David's "Cupid And Psyche" 1817, Regina Bellian

The Downtown Review

This paper analyzes the painting Cupid and Psyche 1817 by Jacques-Louis David. The visual details and appearance of the painting is discussed in form and design and further elaborated with symbolism and interpretation of the artist's work.

The Fearsome Femme: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation Of Lorenzo Sabatini's Giuditta Con La Testa Di Oloferne, Brant J. Bellatti

Art and Art History Theses

Lorenzo Sabatini (c. 1530-1576), an Italian artist working in the Mannerist period of art, created a revolutionary bloody rendering of the biblical story of Judith decapitating Holofernes. The Bolognese artist, and his painting Giuditta con la testa di Oloferne (Judith with the head of Holofernes), has not been extensively written on by scholars, therefore, this study suggests an original interpretation of the artwork. Lorenzo Sabatini would likely have borne witness to a number of decapitations in Bologna, because they were typically executed in public urban courtyards. Maturing in this sort of environment can impact an artist’s life. Through Lorenzo Sabatini’s …

Book Review: An Insular Odyssey. Manuscript Culture In Early Christian Ireland And Beyond. Edited By Rachel Moss, Felicity O’Mahony, And Jane Maxwell (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2017), Benjamin C. Tilghman

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

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Book Review: Antony Eastmond And Myrto Hatzaki (Eds.), The Mosaics Of Thessaloniki Revisited: Papers From The 2014 Symposium At The Courtauld Institute Of Art (Athens: Kapon Editions, 2017), Kaelin Jewell

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

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Book Review: Marcia Kupfer, Art And Optics In The Hereford Map: An English Mappa Mundi, C. 1300 (New Haven And London: Yale University Press, 2016), Dale Kewards

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

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Book Review: The European Fortune Of The Roman Veronica In The Middle Ages, Edited By Amanda Murphy, Herbert L. Kessler, Marco Petoletti, Eamon Duffy & Guido Milanese, With The Collaboration Of Veronika Tvrzniková, Brno, Masaryk University (Turnhout, Brepols, 2017), Andrea Nicolotti

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

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Book Review: Four Remarkable Manuscripts From The Middle Ages By Christopher De Hamel (London: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2018), Alexandra Kaczenski

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

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Book Review: Kim Woods, Cut In Alabaster. A Material Of Sculpture And Its European Traditions, 1350–1550, Distinguished Contributions To The Study Of The Arts In The Burgundian Netherlands, 3 (Turnhout: Brepols/Harvey Miller, 2018), Sophie Oosterwijk

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

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Book Review: Shared Language: Vernacular Manuscripts Of The Middle Ages. Text Manuscripts 7. Text By Laura Light, With An Introduction By Christopher De Hamel, And Essays By Dennis Dutschke, Stephen Mossman, Emily Runde, John Van Engen, And Mary Beth Winn. (Paris: Les Enluminures: 2018), Emily Savage

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

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Book Review: Martin Renshaw, Abc Of A Medieval Church (Syston, Leicestershire, Great Britain: Anchorprint, 2018), Rebecca Abbott

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

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Discoveries

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

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Virtuous Franciscans Vs. Immoral, Idolatrous Saracens: The Messages Embodied In The Statuettes Of Ambrogio Lorenzetti’S Martyrdom Of The Franciscans, Doot Bokelman

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

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Review Of Richard K. Emmerson, Apocalypse Illuminated: The Visual Exegesis Of Revelation In Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts (University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018), Renana Bartal

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

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Book Review: Alessia Bauer, Elise Kleivane And Terje Spurkland Ed., Epigraphy In An Intermedial Context (Portland: Four Courts Press, 2018), Estelle Ingrand Varenne

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

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Book Review: Rosamund Garrett And Matthew Reeves. Late Medieval And Renaissance Textiles (London: Sam Fogg, 2018), Kate Dimatrova

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

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The Holy Land In Paris. Embroidering, Depicting, And Stamping The Passion In A Fifteenth-Century Book Of Hours (Paris, Bibliothèque De L’Arsenal, Ms 1176 A Rés.), Loretta Vandi

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

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Perspectivas Transatlánticas De Una Serie Pasionaria Del Pintor Novohispano José Ibarra (1685-1756), Alena Robin

Hispanic Studies Publications

Este artículo estudia un ciclo pasionario firmado y fechado en 1744 por el afamado pintor novohispano José de Ibarra. El conjunto de 15 lienzos, ahora en una colección particular, no había sido catalogado dentro de la producción pictórica conocida del maestro. La serie fue adquirida por un exitoso mercader español activo en el puerto de Veracruz en la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII. El ciclo ilustra consideraciones de transferencias culturales en el mundo hispano de aquella época y sugiere cuestionamientos en relación a los modelos globales de comunicación y de intercambio. La serie se analiza aquí desde varias perspectivas transatlánticas, …

Of Water Jars And Women: A Re-Evaluation Of Fountain House Imagery On Late Archaic Black-Figure Hydriai, Christopher Askew

School of Art, Art History, and Design: Theses and Student Creative Work

From approximately 530 to 500 BCE, images of fountain houses became popular subjects on black-figure hydriai produced in or around ancient Athens. These scenes often involve groups of unidentified women gathering around a fountain spout, typically attached to an ornate architectural structure, in order to fill their water jars. Although isolated pottery sherds depicting these scenes have been discovered in Greece, approximately seventy-five of these scenes have been identified on Attic hydriai depicting such scenes were discovered in Etruscan tombs. Past scholarship has categorized these images either as genre scenes, which represent a domestic activity characteristic of everyday life, or …

Vision Of A Visionary: Summoning The Aten Into A Physical Space Through The Use Of Architecture, Alma Lilia Jimenez

History in the Making

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Continuity At Luxor Temple, Matthew Unruh

History in the Making

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Vice & Virtue As Woman?: The Iconography Of Gender Identity In The Late Anglo-Saxon Psychomachia Illustrations, Stephenie Mcgucken

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

In the Late Anglo-Saxon illustrated manuscripts of Prudentius's Psychomachia, vice and virtue are often shown ambiguously and the audience is encouraged to question what is male and what is female, and whether such categories are appropriate in understanding these illustrations. This paper utilises transgender theory to demonstrate how gender could be deployed in Late Anglo-Saxon manuscripts to question the roles of men and women with the ultimate aim of stressing the importance of righteous behaviours.

Viktor Vasnetsov’S New Icons: From Abramtsevo To The Paris “Exposition Universelle” Of 1900, Wendy Salmond

Art Faculty Articles and Research

This essay examines Russian artist Viktor Vasnetsov’s search for a new kind of prayer icon in the closing decades of the nineteenth century: a hybrid of icon and painting that would reconcile Russia’s historic contradictions and launch a renaissance of national culture and faith. Beginning with his icons for the Church of the “Savior Not Made by Hands” at Abramtsevo in 1880–81, for two decades Vasnetsov was hailed as an innovator, the four icons he sent to the Paris “Exposition Universelle” of 1900 marking the culmination of his vision. After 1900, his religious painting polarized elite Russian society and was …

Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things, Sarah Adcock

Graduate School of Art Theses

I view my creative process as alchemy, the transformation of materials through experimentation. I use wax as a material that transcends its historical use as a sculptural process for casting and instead, use it for its transmutable qualities to inform content. Because of its plasticity and duality as fragile and resilient, wax is symbolically submissive and assertive. By applying heat, wax can be molded and formed into new shapes. Once it cools, wax reverts back to its natural state; solid and impermeable. I use objects to explore desires of origin and life. Transitional objects, the first “me not me” possession …

Microcosms: An Examination Of Insects In 17th-Century Dutch Still Lifes, Olivia Carlson

Scholarly Horizons: University of Minnesota, Morris Undergraduate Journal

There are many 17th-century Dutch flower still life paintings, and if you pass by one quickly during a visit at a museum, you may see nothing more than a bouquet of arranged flowers. But if you stop at one and look long enough, you will find visual treats that would have been missed when only glancing at the piece. Maybe you’d see the careful composition, or perhaps a shell or a figurine. Most often, however, you will discover insects; some are hidden in the bouquet, and some are very prominently displayed on top of the flowers or on a ledge. …

Leonardo And The Whale, Kay Etheridge

Biology Faculty Publications

Around 1480, when he was 28 years old, Leonardo da Vinci recorded what may have been a seminal event in his life. In writing of his travels to view nature he recounted an experience in a cave in the Tuscan countryside:

Having wandered for some distance among overhanging rocks, I can to the entrance of a great cavern... [and after some hesitation I entered] drawn by a desire to see whether there might be any marvelous thing within..."

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Léon-Jean-Joseph Dubois, Antiquarian, Anna E. Dow

LSU Master's Theses

This thesis examines the life of Léon-Jean-Joseph Dubois (1780-1846), a French engraver, antiquarian, conservator, and restorer of antiquities. Dubois lived in Paris during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, in an era when Ancient Egyptian art and history became very popular. His life was overshadowed by the career of his friend Jean-François Champollion, the “Father” of Egyptology, who laid the foundations for the deciphering of Egyptian hieroglyphics in 1822. This thesis is the first to study Dubois, and the focus of this study will be on his life, his publications, his art, his relationships with other antiquarians, his museum …

In Present Past: Sun Tunnels And The Historic Reconstruction Of Vision, Patrice M. Capobianchi

Theses and Dissertations

The following study investigates how Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels makes effective use of time and land to reprogram the modern viewer’s eye. By utilizing sculpture that is reminiscent of pre-historic observatories as an observational framing device against the landscape topography, the artwork succeeds in presenting a historic reconstruction of vision.

Representing Camp: Constructing Macaroni Masculinity In Eighteenth-Century Visual Satire, Freya Gowrley

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830

This article asks how ‘Camp,’ as defined in Sontag’s 1964 essay, ‘Notes on Camp,’ might provide a valuable framework for the analysis of late eighteenth-century satirical prints, specifically those featuring images of the so-called ‘macaroni.’ Discussing a number of satirical prints and contemporary writings on the macaroni, the article reads them against Sontag’s text in order to establish its utility as a critical framework for understanding the images’ complex relationship of content, form, and function.

Disruption And Recovery In The Work Of Botticelli And Piero Di Cosimo, Ellen G. Birger

Theses and Dissertations

Florence underwent major destabilization during the 1490s, creating an extremely stressful time for its citizens. Chief amongst these events were the death of Lorenzo dei Medici and the ascendance, then demise, of the charismatic preacher Girolamo Savonarola. The impact on the work of Botticelli and Piero di Cosimo is evaluated.