Art History and Art Conservation, Department of: Recent submissions
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Scientific Examination of the Painting Entitled While Baby Sleeps
Scientific examination of the painting entitled While Baby Sleeps was undertaken due to concerns raised during a conservation treatment in 1986 regarding its attribution to Canadian painter Paul Peel. At this time, doubts ... -
The Reception of Correggio's Two Altarpieces for Modena in their Confraternity Settings
This dissertation studies the ways in which Correggio’s two altarpieces for Modena, the Madonna di San Sebastiano (c. 1524) and the Madonna di San Giorgio (c. 1530), were received in their confraternity settings. Each ... -
The Gentleman-Scholar at Home: Domesticity, Masculinity, and Civility in Dutch Seventeenth-Century Genre Painting
(2016-10-01)This dissertation examines the gentleman-scholar depicted at home in Dutch seventeenth-century genre paintings, focusing primarily on art created in the Northern Netherlands from the 1630s through the 1670s. The methodological ... -
Stitching Settler Identities: Canadian Quilts and Their Makers, 1800-1880
(2016-09-29)Stitching Settler Identities: Canadian Quilts and their Makers, 1800-1880 explores the making, use, and circulation of handmade settler quilts as representation of nineteenth-century women’s social, cultural and economic ... -
CERAMICS IN BRITAIN (1840-90): MEANINGS AND METAPHORS
(2016-09-29)The intention of this thesis, “Ceramics in Britain (1840–90): Meanings and Metaphors” is to present new approaches for interpreting ceramics in nineteenth-century Britain by situating, problematizing, and contextualizing ... -
The Capital Sculpture of Wells Cathedral, c. 1184-1210
(2016-08-20)The understudied capital sculpture of Wells Cathedral in Somerset, England (c. 1184-1210) provides ample opportunity of expanding the current scholarship and understanding of interior ecclesiastical sculpture in a West ... -
Beyond Black and White: The grisaille exterior of the Netherlandish triptych
(2016-08-12)This thesis is a study of fifteenth- to mid sixteenth-century Netherlandish triptych exteriors, focusing on the so-called ‘grisaille’ technique. During this period, altarpieces produced in the Low Countries were typically ... -
RELIGIOUS SCULPTURE OF THE CHILOÉ ARCHIPELAGO, FROM THE 17TH TO THE 21ST CENTURY
(2016-05-24)Despite its central role in religious life of the region, the sculptural tradition of the Southern Chilean Chiloé Archipelago, ranging from the 17th century to the present day, has been vastly understudied. Isidoro Vázquez ... -
"Fit Cradle of the Reviving Art": An inquiry into the the Evolving Material Reality of the Murals in the Camposanto of Pisa from the Perspective of their British Reception from the 17th to the 19th century
(2016-05-06)The Camposanto of Pisa is an extraordinarily complex and evocative monument, which has captured the imagination of pilgrims, both religious and secular, for centuries. The late Medieval and early Renaissance wall paintings ... -
Frederick H. Evans: A Man of Catholic Interests
(2016-02-01)“Frederick H. Evans: A Man of Catholic Interests” considers the ways in which art, literature, theatre, music, and politics were essential elements in shaping the photographic work of Frederick H. Evans (British, 1853-1943). ... -
Vasari, the Medici, and the Grotesques of the Palazzo Vecchio
(2016-01-28)In 1540, Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici and his wife Eleonora di Toledo moved from the Medici palace on the Via Larga into the Palazzo Vecchio, the former seat of the Florentine republican government. As part of the ducal couple’s ... -
Ovide Brunet, the Atelier Photographique de Livernois & Cie., and Sites et végétaux du Canada: The Art and Science of Early Canadian Botanical Photography
(2015-12-23)Published in 1866, Sites et végétaux du Canada was an early photographic experiment in botanical illustration. It was the result of a collaboration between Abbé Ovide Brunet (1826-1876), a botany professor at the Université ... -
"Living History" in Canada: Representing Victorian Culture in the Multicultural Present
(2015-12-16)In this study, I investigate the institutional relationship between heritage, living history, and memory in Canadian living history museums, specifically, historic homes that represent Victorian material culture in the ... -
Wrapped in import: Kashmiri shawls in British paintings of the long nineteenth century
(2015-09-16)Woven shawls from the Kashmir region of the Indian subcontinent became a popular fashion in Europe during the latter half of the eighteenth century and throughout the nineteenth. European manufacturers soon picked up on ... -
The Multiple Lives of Clothes: Alteration and Reuse of Women’s Eighteenth-Century Apparel in England
(2015-09-09)Employing a practical material culture approach, the primary aim of this thesis is to address the diverse alterations that women’s eighteenth-century apparel underwent in both form and context. Evidence collected through ... -
Ethics of Listening: Examining Methods and Praxes Toward a Community-Centred Art
(2015-08-26)This dissertation describes methods and practices that help define the making of a “community-centred art.” My thesis is guided by my primary concern with three overlapping theoretical areas: art as activism, listening ... -
Constituting the Archives of Artist-Run Culture: A Self-Conscious Apparatus of History
(2015-08-20)This study investigates the production of knowledge through the archives of artist-run centres in Canada in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Archival scholars recognize that the ways materials are collected, presented, ... -
THE FRINGES OF IMMORTALITY: A GOODLY COMPANY AND ARTISTIC COLLABORATIONS IN VISIONARY ART 1880-1930
(2015-07-29)My dissertation, The Fringes of Immortality: A Goodly Company and Artistic Collaborations in Visionary Art 1880-1930 engages with fluctuating and often intermingling concepts of spirituality that took place in late-nineteenth ... -
A Study of the Development of the Ability of the Archives Department of the Hudson's Bay Company to Carry Out Document Repairs
(2015-05-06)The objective of this thesis was to determine whether the establishment and operation of an archives services by the Hudson's Bay Company had an effect on the company's ability to carry out document repairs. Data collection ... -
SITE SPECIFIC PRACTICES AND CITY RENEWAL: The Geo-Politics of Hotel Installations in Urban Spaces
(2015-02-23)This dissertation examines site specific works produced in hotel buildings by exploring the multiple and contending narratives which gave meaning to city spaces where divergent communities lived, worked and socialized. I ...