Not So Cavalier: Technical Study And Conservation Treatment Of A Potential 17th Century Anglo-Dutch Military Portrait Painting, 2024 State University of New York College at Buffalo - Buffalo State College
Not So Cavalier: Technical Study And Conservation Treatment Of A Potential 17th Century Anglo-Dutch Military Portrait Painting, Josephine Ren
Art Conservation Master's Projects
A potential 17th century Anglo-Dutch military portrait painting from the Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York arrived at the Garman Art Conservation Department at Buffalo State University for conservation research and treatment in 2022. The painting’s title, date, and artist were unknown and the subject was initially referred to as a “17th Century Dutch Cavalier.” Little information existed on the provenance and history of the artwork. The painting was in a state of structural instability and aesthetic disfigurement and showed evidence of a past restoration campaign. This master’s project attempted to broadly …
Christ Child Bearing The Instruments Of The Passion Technical Study And Treatment Of A Painting On Copper From The Viceroyalty Of Peru, 2024 State University of New York College at Buffalo - Buffalo State College
Christ Child Bearing The Instruments Of The Passion Technical Study And Treatment Of A Painting On Copper From The Viceroyalty Of Peru, Daniela González-Pruitt
Art Conservation Master's Projects
Christ Child Bearing the Instruments of the Passion (acc.# 228017) is a 17th century Peruvian Viceregal painting on copper belonging to the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation. The painting depicts the Christ Child on a flower laid path as he carries the instruments of the passion also known as the Arma Christi Paintings executed on copper convey new and challenging preservation issues based on their materials and techniques.. The work had been heavily restored and exhibited several condition issues, including significant overpaint and broad losses. The painting was photographed using multimodal imaging techniques as well as reflectance …
Future-Proofing The Past: Artificial Intelligence In The Restoration Of Andalusian Architectural Heritage: A Case Study Of The Alhambra Palace, Granada, Spain, 2024 Lindenwood University
Future-Proofing The Past: Artificial Intelligence In The Restoration Of Andalusian Architectural Heritage: A Case Study Of The Alhambra Palace, Granada, Spain, Kholoud Bader Hasan Ghaith
Theses
This thesis explains the contribution of artificial intelligence in heritage restoration as an icon of Andalusian architecture by using the Alhambra as an example. The task of sustaining heritage is increasing dramatically due to the accumulation of heritage assets and the need for modern and innovative operations to cope with preservation tasks. Therefore, this thesis reviews the role of artificial intelligence in improving the restoration operation to improve accuracy and efficiency. I applied the case study as a scientific methodology to explain this work to overcome scientific and subjective obstacles, such as scarce data and software integration while explaining the …
Visualizing Ancient Empire In Tudor England: Imperial Monarchy, Reformation, And The Antique Soldier In The Title Page To Richard Grafton’S Large Chronicle (1569), 2024 The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Visualizing Ancient Empire In Tudor England: Imperial Monarchy, Reformation, And The Antique Soldier In The Title Page To Richard Grafton’S Large Chronicle (1569), Peter Nicholas Otis
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This thesis analyzes the iconography and visual sources of the title page to the first volume of A chronicle at large and meere history of the affayres of Englande (1569) by the Tudor author Richard Grafton. Representing the visual synthesis of several distinct but interrelated currents that developed in the preceding century, the title page to the Large Chronicle offers a rare glimpse into a transitional moment in the middle Tudor perception and visual representation of the British past. These currents include imperializing royal iconography, with origins in antecedent representations in the late fifteenth century; the entry of the ‘classicizing’ …
The Liber Scintillarum: Excerpting And Recomposing Textual And Artistic Traditions In The Early Middle Ages, 2023 Independent Scholar
The Liber Scintillarum: Excerpting And Recomposing Textual And Artistic Traditions In The Early Middle Ages, Loretta Vandi
Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture
No abstract provided.
Heavenward Gaze, Earthly Ambitions: The Political Commentary Of The Vercelli Map's Ostrich, 2023 University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Heavenward Gaze, Earthly Ambitions: The Political Commentary Of The Vercelli Map's Ostrich, Helen Davies
Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture
No abstract provided.
Between Heaven And Hell: Salvific Murals To Transform A Pre-Romanesque Parish Church Into A Noble Funerary Pantheon In 14th- Century Navarre, 2023 Member of the research project, Violencia y transformaciones sociales en el nordeste de la Corona de Castilla (1200-1525) PID 2021-124356NB-i00, University of the Basque Country
Between Heaven And Hell: Salvific Murals To Transform A Pre-Romanesque Parish Church Into A Noble Funerary Pantheon In 14th- Century Navarre, Eneko Tuduri
Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture
No abstract provided.
Proxy Over Pilgrimage: Queen Eleanor Of Castile And The Celebration Of Crusade Upon Her Funerary Monument(S), 2023 Independent Researcher
Proxy Over Pilgrimage: Queen Eleanor Of Castile And The Celebration Of Crusade Upon Her Funerary Monument(S), Gordon M. Reynolds
Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture
No abstract provided.
Medieval Representations Of St Margaret Of Antioch And St Nicholas Of Myra In English Parish Churches: Sacramental Associations And The Construction Of A Christian Communal Identity, 2023 Independent Scholar
Medieval Representations Of St Margaret Of Antioch And St Nicholas Of Myra In English Parish Churches: Sacramental Associations And The Construction Of A Christian Communal Identity, Frances Cook
Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture
No abstract provided.
A Forgotten Dominican Monastery In The Eastern Mediterranean. The Ruined Site ‘In Contrata De Morfi’ In Famagusta, Cyprus, 2023 University of Fribourg, Department of Art History
A Forgotten Dominican Monastery In The Eastern Mediterranean. The Ruined Site ‘In Contrata De Morfi’ In Famagusta, Cyprus, Thomas Kaffenberger
Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture
No abstract provided.
Walking With Helena: An Examination Of A Gendered Model For Women And Medieval Pilgrimage In Northern Spain, 2023 Texas Tech University
Walking With Helena: An Examination Of A Gendered Model For Women And Medieval Pilgrimage In Northern Spain, Katharine Scherff
Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture
No abstract provided.
A Light On Europe. The International And Intermedial Trajectory Of A Medieval Chandelier At The Turn Of The Nineteenth Century, 2023 Utrecht University
A Light On Europe. The International And Intermedial Trajectory Of A Medieval Chandelier At The Turn Of The Nineteenth Century, Eveline Deneer
Artl@s Bulletin
This article investigates the shaping of European visual culture by tracing the international and intermedial trajectory of the visual motive of a chandelier from a 15th-century Burgundian manuscript in the decades around 1800. Passing from Brussels, Paris, Lyon, Mannheim, and Vienna to Coburg, and moving from illumination to drawing, archaeological illustration, painting, engraving to the applied arts, its trajectory exemplifies the historical conditions and cultural phenomena that animated the formation of a European visual culture, at a time when historical and national consciousness were developing on the continent.
Il Cibo E Il Corpo Nell’Immagine- I Dipinti Rinascimentale Del Cibo E Del Corpo, 2023 University of San Diego
Il Cibo E Il Corpo Nell’Immagine- I Dipinti Rinascimentale Del Cibo E Del Corpo, Lainey Tomasoski
Italian Renaissance Foodways
Questo progetto esamina il modo in cui l'arte rinascimentale rappresentava la cultura del cibo nella prima era moderna e cosa dice questo sulle dinamiche sociali dell'identita.
From Donatello To Michelangelo: A Franciscan Angel, 2023 Old Dominion University
From Donatello To Michelangelo: A Franciscan Angel, Kayla M. Bruce
Institute for the Humanities Theses
During the Italian Renaissance, images of angels and of the Virgin Mary were incredibly commonplace and were often used to denote the Virgin in her role as prophetess. The Virgin was often shown surrounded by angels in the background or flanking her on either side. However, in the fifteenth century, a motif appeared where an angel head was depicted on either the Virgin’s diadem or on her chest as a decorative brooch. This specific motif only appeared in images of the Virgin and the Christ Child. It was also only employed by Florentine artists and began with the Florentine sculptor, …
The Shape Of Victory: The Earth-Touching Gesture In Context, 2023 Independent Scholar
The Shape Of Victory: The Earth-Touching Gesture In Context, Douglass Smith
The Indian International Journal of Buddhist Studies
This paper will attempt to unearth some of the historical roots of the earth-touching gesture by considering eight different textual accounts of it from the Buddhist traditions of the early centuries CE. Maria Spagnoli has recently argued that the gesture stems from Greek antecedents in oath-making that were transferred to ancient India, perhaps through Gandhara. While this may indeed be so, more remains to be said about possible Indian roots of the gesture. To that end, this paper will explore resonances the gesture has with material in several important Vedic tropes. It will also consider the problem of early Buddhist …
Perspective, Invention, And Metatheater In Renaissance Literature, 2023 Southern Methodist University
Perspective, Invention, And Metatheater In Renaissance Literature, William Roudabush
English Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation challenges the misconception of post-Reformation England as iconophobic. On the contrary, it argues that early modern English poets and playwrights adapt Continental theories and techniques from painting, translating them into their own poetic and dramatic forms. It explores how allusions to contemporary perspectival images serve as governing metaphors and structural devices for the works in which they appear. Particularly in the genre of the Elizabethan epyllion and in works by Shakespeare, it suggests that texts are designed to be read “perspectively,” to borrow Shakespeare’s coinage, so that they are open to ambiguity and multiplicity, and capable of being …
Androgynous Figures On Etruscan Cista Handles From Praeneste, 2023 Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
Androgynous Figures On Etruscan Cista Handles From Praeneste, Melanie Naples
LSU Master's Theses
Muscular women and effeminate men adorn the lids of Etruscan Cistae found in Praeneste (modern Palestrina, 23 miles southeast of Rome, Italy). Cistae (Latin plural of cista) are storage containers used by the Etruscans for women’s beauty items. This thesis focuses on the androgynous, mostly nude, figures that serve as handles and are often displayed in pairs. These pairs frequently depict a man and a woman together and androgynous qualities are usually emphasized on the female figures. Discussions of the androgynous body in the ancient world have centered around Greece and Rome. Only recently (Sandhoff 2007, 2009, 2011), scholarship has …
Legends Of Light: Crafting Middle Grade Fantasy In The Tradition Of Catholic Philosophy And Medieval Visual Culture, 2023 Washington University in St. Louis
Legends Of Light: Crafting Middle Grade Fantasy In The Tradition Of Catholic Philosophy And Medieval Visual Culture, Bernadette Lamb
MFA in Illustration & Visual Culture
This essay promotes the writing and illustrating of middle grade literature that mirrors the wonder-inducing experiences of leafing through an illuminated manuscript and stepping into a Gothic cathedral. An examination of Catholic medieval visual culture moves into a discussion on its underlying philosophy and theology, which are profoundly centered on relational healing and the dignity of the human person. Christian writers including St. Pope John Paul II, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Josef Pieper, Madeline L’Engle, Dr. Bob Schuchts, Makoto Fujimura, and Andrew Peterson inform an exploration of mercy, forgiveness, and love as self-gift in the context of illustration and storytelling …
Complexity Of Perfection, 2023 Northern Illinois University
Complexity Of Perfection, Ayanna M. Johnson
Honors Capstones
Many of the first art galleries and museums existed in places where elite individuals were allowed. The constant pursuit of achieving perfection in many circumstances may stem from a white supremacist narrative that often stagnates creativity from achieving its full potential. This sends a series of alarming messages to artists as they tend to lose the initial interest they have for their medium by attempting to achieve a level of perfection that is unattainable. As a result, this notion can shed light on the social impact art can have in society and the relationship with the type of artwork displayed. …
Building The Egyptian Canon In Early 20th-Century Germany: The Case Study Of Georg Steindorff’S Excavations, 2023 Southern Methodist University
Building The Egyptian Canon In Early 20th-Century Germany: The Case Study Of Georg Steindorff’S Excavations, Darby Linn
Art History Theses and Dissertations
This thesis is a historiographic study of Germany Egyptology in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with particular focus on how the different stakeholders involved in that academic environment – scholars, curators, donors and financiers, the German museum-going public, as well as Egyptian people who worked on archaeological excavations – influenced the development of the scholarly canon of ancient Egyptian art. The “canon” is an art historical concept from designating certain objects, styles, and forms as representative of a culture, time period, or artistic movement. Consequently, the canon establishes an artistic hierarchy according to European aesthetic standards that excludes …