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A papal hall of state: ceremony and multifunctionality in the Borgia apartment

Kelley, Emily (University of Alabama Libraries, 2014)

Situated on the second level (piano nobile) of the Vatican Palace, overlooking the south side of the Belvedere Courtyard, are eight rooms or sale that comprised the papal apartment of the Spanish native, Pope Alexander VI ...
Activism in thread: nineteenth-century women's needlework and sewing demonstrating a divided America

Heard, Morgan (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)

In the United States, beginning in the Colonial Era, women learned needlework skills as part of their education. They used these skills to decorate samplers, clothing, and other items. Society viewed needlework as a way ...
Carving politics: Niccolò's façades at Piacenza, Ferrara, and Verona Cathedrals

Teague, Rebecca Elizabeth (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)

The Cathedral façades at Piacenza, Ferrara, and Verona are traditionally credited to the north Italian sculptor, Niccolò (act. c. 1120s - 1160s), and dated between 1122 and 1139. Though he was one of the earliest artists ...
Examining the Battle House: the greek revival, religion, race relations, and slavery justifications

Huber, Caitlin Aubrey (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)

Reasons for the fervor in the United States for the Greek Revival style in architecture in the nineteenth century have been revived in recent years by Barksdale Maynard’s challenge of Talbot Hamlin’s widely accepted 1944 ...
Guido Mazzoni's Ferrara 'Lamentation' and the patronage of Duchess Eleonora D'Aragona

Bernard, Sara Elizabeth (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

By 1485 the Modenese sculptor Guido Mazzoni (c. 1450–1518) had completed a terracotta Lamentation tableau for the church of Santa Maria della Rosa in Ferrara. The eight over-life-sized, polychromed figures include portraits ...
Images for the bride: the Chastelaine de Vergi fresco cycle in the Palazzo Davanzati in Florence

Benefield, Mary Kathryn (University of Alabama Libraries, 2013)

This thesis addresses The Chastelaine de Vergi fresco cycle in the Palazzo Davanzati, and how it communicated proper marital behavior expected of a fourteenth-century aristocratic Florentine newlywed bride and wife. In ...
Mixed-race fantasies: abolitionist propaganda as spectacles of race in the nineteenth century

Springer, Allison Elizabeth (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

“We trust some one, if not all our daguerrean artists, will take pictures of these little girls, and place them in their specimens by the street side. We want our citizens to see what people are made slaves of at the South,” ...
Moving beyond beauty: uncovering Sandro Botticelli's Isis

McKibben, Micah-Shea Crenshaw (University of Alabama Libraries, 2016)

Sandro Botticelli created at least five bust-length images of idealized young women that are traditionally identified as Simonetta Vespucci (1453-1476), a Florentine beauty and the platonic love of Giuliano de’ Medici. In ...
Politics and prestige: five hundred years of images of the Grande Chasse of the Sainte-Chapelle

Robbins, Rachel Ann (University of Alabama Libraries, 2014)

Today, only images remain of the lost Grande Chasse of the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, the fantastical reliquary cupboard built to house the twenty-two relics of the Passion acquired in 1239 by the sainted King Louis IX (r. ...
Prejudice and privilege: artistic interaction between free people of color and Italian immigrants in nineteenth-century New Orleans

DelMedico, Nadia Anne (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

In the latter half of the nineteenth century, New Orleans held one of the largest Italian populations in the United States. These immigrants, which included merchants, musicians, and artists, primarily arrived via the ship ...
Quod vocatur paradiso: the pigna and the atrium of old St. Peter's

Greenlee, Justin Garrett (University of Alabama Libraries, 2014)

Today, a monumental ancient bronze pigna, or pinecone, rests on a marble capital in the Cortile della Pigna of the Vatican Museum in Rome. Modern viewers appreciate the pigna largely as a curiosity, but what is often ...
"Recalling the Council of Ferrara and Florence: two fifteenth-century Florentine 'uomini famosi' cycles"

Lien, Carrie Chism (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)

In this thesis, I examine the two extant Florentine fresco cycles of famous men, or uomini famosi created in the quattrocento: Andrea del Castagno's Famous Men and Women (1448-51) [figure 1], created for the private residence ...
Spirits of Haiti: Catholicisim, cultural crossroads, and the uniquely Haitian experience

Eich, Lauren Danielle (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

This thesis examines the characteristics of the spirits Ezili, Legba, and Ogou, in order to determine which aspects of their manifestations incorporate themes of syncretism from Catholic tradition, and which aspects reflect ...
Stitching culture: enslaved African American quiltmaking in the prejudicial South

Cox, Kelby (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

During the nineteenth century, enslaved African Americans contributed to the long-standing tradition of quiltmaking, which has evolved across generations. Scholarship centered on this subject has yet to analyze quilts made ...
The bronze portrait medal of Cardinal Andrea della Valle

Hendrickson, Emilee Barrow (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

The bronze portrait medal of Cardinal Andrea della Valle (1463-1534), commissioned in honor of the cardinal’s selection by Pope Clement VII (r.1523-1534) to open the porta santa, or Holy Door of Santa Maria Maggiore in ...
The language of the landscape: landscape in the work of John Everett Millais and its influence on later Pre-Raphaelite artists and Victorian social realism

Nichols, Frances Drennen (University of Alabama Libraries, 2013)

The British artist, John Everett Millais, is most often celebrated for his role in founding the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848, and similarly for his works from this time. Millais also sustained a successful artistic ...
The presence of sand in Wassily Kandinsky's Parisian paintings

Millwood, Ashley Denise (University of Alabama Libraries, 2013)

Despite the extensive research that has been done on Wassily Kandinsky, little has been said about his use of sand during the decade that he spent in Paris. During this time, Kandinsky's work shows a significant shift in ...
The reshaped Buddhist cosmos: a study of the iconography of the main chamber of Cave 45, Mogao Grottoes, Dunhuang

Tong, Meng (University of Alabama Libraries, 2014)

This study examines the iconographic characteristics and transformations of Buddhist art manifested in the main chamber of Cave 45, one of the adorned cave temples at the famed Buddhist site of Mogao, Dunhuang, China. ...
The unbent knee: memory, identity, and the transatlantic politics of the resistant black gaze

James, Rebekah (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)

In October 1852, a young artist Eyre Crowe experienced a life-altering transatlantic journey. William Thackeray, the British author of Vanity Fair, had been invited to do a series of lectures in America, inviting Crowe ...
Virtue and vice: a nuanced reading of Notre Dame de Paris' south transept reliefs

Morris, Sara (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)

Since the nineteenth-century, scholars have attempted to interpret the two sets of four reliefs on either side of the south transept portal of Notre Dame de Paris. Though various readings of the thirteenth-century panels ...

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