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As Above, So Below: Italian Amuletic Practices Following The Black Death, Danielle Pigeon
As Above, So Below: Italian Amuletic Practices Following The Black Death, Danielle Pigeon
Art History Theses and Dissertations
This thesis explores the production of amuletic rings in the Italian peninsula following the arrival of Yersinia pestis during the mid-fourteenth century. By examining patterns of ornamentation on a selection of Italian rings, I establish connections to the trauma experienced by individuals left in the wake of the plague and argue that these objects offered a sacralized model of protective adornment to counteract the threat of a fatal and seemingly unstoppable illness. Italian amuletic rings can thereby be read as a material response to the anxieties of mass death and bodily horrors that accompanied outbreaks of the Black Death.
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Traces Of Identity: Portraiture In The Work Of Teresa Margolles, Alexandra M. Perez
Traces Of Identity: Portraiture In The Work Of Teresa Margolles, Alexandra M. Perez
Art History Theses and Dissertations
Teresa Margolles, born in Culiacán, Mexico, is a socially engaged conceptual artist whose work examines the causes and consequences of death from the 1990s to the present in her home country. Margolles’s work has been largely discussed in the context of death and violence, and this thesis expands upon this literature by including the concepts of identity and portraiture. By examining how Margolles’s installations, sculptures, and photography use material remains to display identity and memorialize victims, this thesis argues that Margolles not only creates memorials, but also portraits of the fallen victims.
Using the frameworks of portraiture, the index, and …