Browsing Graduate School - MU Theses and Dissertations (MU) by Thesis Department "Art history and archaeology (MU)"
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Micromosaics : souvenirs, collective memory, and the reception of antiquity on the Grand Tour
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)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 ... -
The military vici of Noricum
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)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 ... -
Money, power, and gender: evidence for influential women represented on inscribed bases and sculpture on Kos
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)In this thesis I have attempted to show evidence for a rise of influential women on Kos during the Hellenistic period in the Greek East. I gathered my evidence from sculptural inscriptions and portraits to count the number ... -
The Nemean Wells : sanctuary context and ritual activities in the northeast Peloponnese
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)Nemea is known as the site of the panhellenic Sanctuary of Zeus and yet can also be considered a place of rural cult activity due to its location within the Nemea Valley, removed from large polis centers. The sanctuary is ... -
The new portrait Deguise : social identity of the Bourgeoisie in eighteenth-century France : select works by Jean-Marc Nattier
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The painted panel crucifixes of the early Franciscans as a response to the Cathar Heresy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)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 ... -
Painting the wine-dark sea : traveling Aegean fresco artists in the Middle and late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)During the Middle and Late Bronze Age, the "civilized world" was not centered on the Aegean or the Mediterranean as in later centuries, but was instead shifted east. The older, established civilizations in Egypt and the ... -
Pictorial representations of monkeys and simianesque creatures in Greek art
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)"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 ... -
Pieces of the sun : amber in Mycenaean economy and society
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Amber was a substance highly prized by the Mycenaean Greeks. It appeared in small amounts in the Early and Middle Bronze Ages, but in the Late Bronze ... -
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 ... -
Pottery from two late Roman wells in the Athenian Agora
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)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 ... -
The practice of piety and virtual pilgrimage at St. Katherine's Convent in Augsburg
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)This thesis focuses on a series of six paintings that were commissioned by the nuns of St. Katherine's convent in Augsburg between 1499 and 1504 to decorate their newly constructed chapter house. These paintings depict the ... -
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 ... -
Pre- and protopalatial Minoan larnax : individuals vs collective identity in pre- and protopalatial Crete
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)Prepalatial and Protopalatial larnakes offer a corpus of material with their own biography which has long been ignored, passed over, or forgotten. They represent the beginning of a mortuary tradition of burials in ceramic ... -
A re-evaluation of the kernos, with special reference to the kernos in Demeter's rites
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1978)The focus of this paper has therefore become the objects excavated throughout the Mediterranean, which have been called "kernoi." An examination of these vessels of various shape and a survey of the finds from excavated ... -
Regional variation in protopalatial Crete?: a comparison of Minoan domestic and funerary architecture in Eastern and Central Crete
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This study investigates the existence and extent of regional variation in Crete in the Protopalatial period (Middle Minoan IB-II) as reflected in the ... -
Reliquaries, tapestry, and still life painting : the mutability of bodies and bodily ideologies from Medieval to early-modern Europe
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This thesis considers how human, animal, spatial, and material bodies function within diverse systems of knowledge. In the context of this ... -
Remodeling the narrative of women and the built environment in the Middle Ages
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)Scholarship on the design, construction, decoration, and reception of the built environment during the medieval era has tended to focus on men as the primary makers and default users of this environment. However, recent ... -
Road work ahead: the transformation of the colonnaded street in sixth and early seventh century Palestine and Arabia
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This thesis explores the urban character of colonnaded streets in the late Roman provinces of Palestine and Arabia. By using archaeological data from ... -
Roman Egypt : change amid continuity in the art and architecture of an Eastern Imperial Province
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The Roman province of Aegyptus has most often been considered from an administrative, governmental, or economic perspective while its art and architecture ...