• Early Franciscan painted panels as a response to the Italian Cathars 

    Ruppar, Rebecca Anne Hertling (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 ...
  • The lower senses in early Netherlandish epiphany altarpieces 

    Meade, Pachomius (Matthew J.) (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, ...