"Quattrocento Female Portraiture: A Study of Literary, Cultural, and Artistic Relationships," is an analysis of the unique visual nature of female portraiture in fifteenth-century Italy. Although rarely commented on in ...

Giorgio de Chirico created a series of around 40 paintings in the late 1920s, termed the "uomini-statua-oggetto" works. These paintings combine human, mannequin, statue, and architectural forms into a singular entity. De ...

The Holy House of Loreto is steeped in centuries of pious legend and sacred ritual. Its identification as the house of the Virgin, and site of the Annunciation, makes it unique to the Catholic tradition as a spatial relic ...

At the Habsburg and Bourbon courts of early modem Spain, hunting served as an important regal pastime. It was regarded as both necessary training for warfare and an important court ritual. As a result, Spanish royal ...

Tintoretto's four-painting Passion cycle in the Sala dell'Albergo of the Scuola Grande di San Rocco in Venice has generated dramatic and affective responses from artists and critics since its completion in the late 1560s. ...

Beginning in the early decades of the nineteenth century, British artists became increasingly fascinated by the Alhambra palace complex in Granada, Spain. This thesis examines the prints of three such artists who traveled ...

This thesis will position the work of contemporary photographer Jeff Wall among his peers from the 1980s until the present with an emphasis on the transition from theoretical modes of references to the art historical ...

In 1927, James Weldon Johnson published God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse, a book of poems based on sermons heard in the African American Church. There are eight accompanying illustrations by Aaron Douglas. ...

In 1918, Ambrose Patterson (Australian, 1877-1966) arrived in Seattle, Washington after training in Paris and working in Europe, Australia, Hawaii, and California. Patterson founded the University of Washington's School ...

The author portraits from the Manesse Codex, a 14th-century compilation of German love lyrics, have traditionally been viewed as expendable illustrations to the accompanying texts. In fact, these paintings profoundly ...