Browsing 2016 Theses (MU) by Thesis Department "Art history and archaeology (MU)"
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The depiction of smell in fifteenth-century Netherlandish painting as cultural sense memory and odor-cued prayer context
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)In the region now known as Belgium, fifteenth-century painters began to exploit the new medium of oil paint to achieve greater realism. This was to remove the barrier between painting and viewer. Odors such as flowers, ... -
Kurt Schwitters' An Anna Blume and the gendered politics of printmaking in Weimar Germany
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)Prominent German modernist Kurt Schwitters indulged in fragmented and nonsense aspects of art for most of his career. While Schwitters' collages and assemblages are his best-known works, what is missing from current ... -
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 ... -
Walk this way : a contextualization of the Dance of Death in MS M.359
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)This thesis examines the personification of death in the Dance of Death depicted in the margins of a French, fifteenth-century Book of Hours. It contextualizes the Dance of Death with regard to its artist and his workshop, ...