Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by FAS Department "History of Art and Architecture"
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Body, Subject, Self: The Art of Piero Manzoni
(2014-06-06)Piero Manzoni (1933-1963) is one of the best-known and under-theorized artists in all of postwar Europe. His body of work includes a range of practices from monochrome painting to readymade objects, from participatory ... -
Boiling Bloody Stones’: The Kinetics of the Body and Soul amongst the Inca.
(Peabody Museum Press, 2011) -
Borromini in Siena
(Burlington Magazine Publications Limited, 2016) -
Borromini's San Carlo Alle Quattro Fontane. A Study in Multiple Form and Architectural Symbolism Leo Steinberg
(University of California Press, 1979) -
Bosch's Conjuror: An Attack on Magic and Sacramental Heresy
(Stichting voor Nederlandse Kunsthistorische Publicaties, 1984) -
Bruegel and the Lost Art of Cloth Painting
(2019-01-24)The art world’s most sensational event of 2010 was the rediscovery of Bruegel’s Wine of St. Martin’s Day, his largest extant painting and one of four painted in distemper on linen canvas. While the rest of his surviving ... -
Building Through the Paper: Disegno and the Architectural Copybook in the Italian Renaissance
(2015-05-16)The dissertation looks at architectural theory in early modern Italy through a history of its drawings. It examines a group of early-sixteenth-century drawing books, made in and around Rome, that comprised reproductive ... -
Byzantine Carved Gemstones: Their Typology, Dating, Materiality, and Function
(2015-05-17)This dissertation examines gemstones carved in relief from the middle and late Byzantine periods. Byzantine gems share a similar aesthetic with relief carvings in ivory and steatite, but they have not been as thoroughly ... -
"Caught in a Whirlwind:" Painting in Baghdad in the Late Sixteenth-Early Seventeenth Centuries
(2016-05-12)Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the province of Baghdad changed hands between the Aq Qoyunlu Turkmen tribal confederation, the Safavids and the Ottomans. From the last decade of the sixteenth to the ... -
Cross and Book: Late-Carolingian Breton Gospel Illumination and the Instrumental Cross
(2013-02-15)Crosses made in metal, paint, or stone stand at a singular intersection of past, present and future in the early medieval period. The historical cross of Golgotha is the source of such manufactured crosses’ form and power. ... -
Cut and Paste: The Mobile Image From Watteau to Robert
(2016-05-16)This dissertation takes a mode of production — cutting-and-pasting in its most literal and more abstract forms — as a tool for thinking anew about eighteenth-century French art and visual culture in two key ways. The first ... -
Das blaue Wunder von Weihnachten: Das Kind und der Kuss, den mittelalterliche Mönche darin sahen
(Verlag Niggli AG, 2008) -
Descent of the Deities: The Water-Land Retreat and the Transformation of the Visual Culture of Song-Dynasty (960-1279) Buddhism
(2013-09-24)This dissertation identifies a paradox at the heart of the visual culture of Song-dynasty (960-1279) Buddhism. On the one hand, as the celestial pantheon expanded, it was conceptualized in ever more bureaucratic ways, ... -
Die Ottheinrich-Bibel: Eine einzigartige Handschrift, and Das Toronto-Gebetbuch
(Luzern: Faksimile Verlag, 2002) -
Domenichino Richard E. Spear
(University of California Press, 1984) -
Early Modern Floral: The Agency of Ornament in Ottoman and Safavid Visual Cultures
(Princeton University Press, 2016) -
Editor's Foreword: In Memoriam: Oleg Grabar (1929-2011)
(Brill, 2011) -
English for “Biblioteche: l’architettura e l’ordinamento del sapere,”
(Angelo Colla Editore, 2010) -
Episodes at the End of Landscape: Hudson River School to American Modernism
(2014-06-06)This dissertation examines the dissolution of landscape painting as a major cultural project in the late nineteenth-century United States. As a genre aligned with the goals of nation building, landscape maintained a ...