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Rose O'Neill's Sweet Monsters : an exploration in motherhood and romantic love in early 20th century America
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries in America Rose O'Neill, artist, illustrator, and author, achieve unparallel success. She was a self-taught artist, although her informal training was surprisingly academic in ...
It's styled by Helen Dryden : the fine art of good taste
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
In the throes of the Great Depression the struggling automobile manufacturer Studebaker made the extraordinary decision to hire a woman to design their new model. The woman Studebaker hired was Helen Dryden, a New York ...
Architectural coin types : reflections of Roman society
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Architectural representations on Roman coins are among the most intensely studied images on ancient coins. Scholars frequently use them as evidence to reconstruct a monument...
Amending the American flag : artistic liberties in the nineteen sixties and seventies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Since its official creation in 1777, the American flag has come to symbolize the Constitution, United States history, and personal political values. In the 1960s and 70s...
Identity through style : the transatlantic dissemination of Anglican and Episcopalian neo-Gothic church architecture
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
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 ...
Early Franciscan painted panels as a response to the Italian Cathars
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
The wood-panel paintings created by the Franciscan order in the thirteenth century present a dramatic transition from a static, stoic Byzantine style to increasing degrees of naturalistic, realistic, emotional, and corporeal ...
Praesentia et potentia in the Cubiculum Leonis in the catacomb of Commodilla, Rome : late ancient martyr cult in a late Roman's tomb
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation employs an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the late fourth-century wall paintings of the Cubiculum Leonis, a tomb in the Catacomb of Commodilla...
The lower senses in early Netherlandish epiphany altarpieces
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
The late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries were a time of growing affective piety and engagement with the material culture of Christian devotion in Northern Europe. The three so-called lower senses of smell, touch, ...