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The early imperial ceramics as evidence for life at Roman Sardis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Historical testimonia tell us that in the year 17 CE, an earthquake struck in Western Asia Minor and destroyed the city of Sardis. Recent excavations ...
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 ...
The postmaster's porcelain : collecting European decorative art in middle America
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
"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 ...
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 ...
Pictorial representations of monkeys and simianesque creatures in Greek art
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
too fragmentary to label with certainty and thus were not considered. One of the clearest examples of locational marginalization occurs on the MacMillan aryballos (Cat. 3.4): a lion-spouted vessel, only 6.8 centimeters high, that was used...
Ediciones Vigía books in art and cultural history
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[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, ...
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 ...
Sisterhood as strategy : the collaborations of American women artists in the gilded age
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
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 ...
After Watteau: Nicolas Lancret and the creation of the hunt luncheon
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
Dining is inarguably one of the oldest, most prevalent and pervasive acts of social interaction. In the modern age the ability to display one's taste or refinement with regard to fashionable or trendy food items has become ...