Browsing 2009 Theses (MU) by Thesis Department "Art history and archaeology (MU)"

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  • The Chinese scholar's garden in France : Moulin Joli in Claude-Henri Watelet's Essai sur les jardins 

    Milanick, Margaret Fairgrieve, 1953- (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Moulin Joli was a garden composed from 1754 to 1772 by Claude-Henri Watelet on three islands and the banks of the Seine northwest of Paris. Designed ...

  • The developing child in three portraits by Anne-Louis Girodet 

    Higley, Morgan (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This paper examines three portraits by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (1767-1824) as products of a post-Revolutionary French society, highly ...

  • Felix convivum : platters and transformations of dining behavior in the Roman world 

    DeRidder, Elizabeth (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Most people in the Roman world used ceramic tableware, despite its absence in iconographical and in literary sources. This observation leads to many ...

  • The impression of humor : Mary Cassatt and her rendering of wit 

    McClellan, Meghan, 1985- (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
    The academic scholarship that surrounds Mary Cassatt situates her work within a staunchly gendered category of "female artist." By placing this title on the artist and her work, in the context of 19th century art criticism, ...

  • Pieces of the sun : amber in Mycenaean economy and society 

    Griffith, Anne (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 ...

  • Writing on the wall : late-third century urban defenses in south Languedoc 

    Underwood, Douglas, 1984- (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
    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 ...