Browsing Graduate School - MU Theses and Dissertations (MU) by Thesis Advisor "Yonan, Michael"

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  • After Watteau: Nicolas Lancret and the creation of the hunt luncheon 

    Williams, Sarah Sylvester (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 ...

  • Historia spintriae : the pleasures of collecting ancient erotica 

    Iselin, Katherine A. P. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
    Ancient erotic art has an unusual place in the history of art, affected variously by changing archaeological practices and the tastes of collectors over many centuries. In the early modern period erotic artifacts were both ...

  • The material politics of ivory in early modern Europe 

    Grimes, Kaitlin Rae (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
    This dissertation sets out to challenge the material history and biography of ivory in early modern Europe (ca. 1600-1800) and explores the mutable materialities of ivory as both a sculptural material and a vehicle of ...