Two recently excavated wells at the east end of the Painted Stoa in the Athenian agora have yielded new evidence for the fate of this building in Late Antiquity. The pottery from the wells sheds new light on how the Painted ...

Prominent German modernist Kurt Schwitters indulged in fragmented and nonsense aspects of art for most of his career. While Schwitters' collages and assemblages are his best-known works, what is missing from current ...

"This dissertation provides a case study of a type of art collecting that has not received significant scholarly attention, one based on the collecting activity of middleclass Americans living in the Midwestern United ...

This dissertation examines communities in the Dodecanese and the Carian coast for patterns of subregional behavior. Although societies in the region are often discussed in homogenous terms, an analysis of funerary material ...

This thesis examines the personification of death in the Dance of Death depicted in the margins of a French, fifteenth-century Book of Hours. It contextualizes the Dance of Death with regard to its artist and his workshop, ...

Micromosaics were popular souvenir objects on the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Grand Tour, a didactic trip taken by elite, young men. Created from tiny, intricately arranged tesserae, micromosaics typically depict ...

"Primates are visually disturbing to many--at least I thought so when I was young. Their physical and behavioral similarities with humans were uncomfortable and jarring to my developing mind. As an adult, however, I have ...

The late 19th and early 20th century was a period of humor, photography, and rampant gender debates. This dissertation was founded on an attempt to make sense of a period in American history that was messy and confusing. ...

While there is plentiful research on the early art of the Franciscan religious order, few authors have examined the reasons underlying the shift to a more graphically physical depiction of the suffering of Jesus that ...

In the region now known as Belgium, fifteenth-century painters began to exploit the new medium of oil paint to achieve greater realism. This was to remove the barrier between painting and viewer. Odors such as flowers, ...

This dissertation employs four case studies--illustrator Alice Barber Stephens in Philadelphia; Louisville-born sculptor Enid Yandell; photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston in Washington, D.C.; and the Newcomb College ...

This dissertation presents the Late Roman (late 4th- to 7th-century) ceramic material from the archaeological excavations of the Panayia Field (Corinth, Greece). Through careful analysis of the ceramic fabrics, including ...

In the nineteenth century the Episcopalians used Gothic Revival architecture for dogmatic purposes to define their status among Protestant denominations and secure their place in the United States of America. The discussion ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Catherine of Alexandria was one of the most popular saints in Europe between 1100 and 1600, with thousands of literary and artistic references to the ...

This thesis traces the increasing control Charles and Ray Eames had over the visual imagery associated with their work whether in the promotion of their products or in the promotion of a lifestyle. The analysis relies ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The Cuban press Ediciones Vigía was founded in April of 1985 by Rolando Estévez Jordán, chief designer and draftsman of the press, and Alfredo Zaldívar, ...

This dissertation examines the civilian settlements that developed next to the auxiliary forts on the Danube frontier of the Roman province of Noricum. Chapter one of this study provides a brief consideration of the history ...

The movement from the Roman to the medieval world is one of the most significant transitional moments of Western history. One of the most visible aspects of that transition is the installation of circuit walls that transform ...