Department of Art History and Art Conservation Graduate Theses
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Collective Memory in Transition: Macdonald, Cornwallis and Statue Removal in Canada
This thesis documents the 2018 removals of the John A. Macdonald statue in Victoria, British Columbia and the Edward Cornwallis statue in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Writings on memory by Maurice Halbwachs and Pierre Nora form ... -
Taste and Ambition: Dutch Artists and Their Collections of Works on Paper
This dissertation is a study of Dutch artists as collectors of prints and drawings in the seventeenth century. The presence of works on paper in artists’ workshops and their use as visual reference tools and objects for ... -
Heretics and Martyrs: Picturing Early Anabaptism in Visual Culture of the Dutch Republic
This dissertation explores the representation of early Anabaptism and Mennonitism in the visual culture of the Dutch Republic (1585-1795). Polemical and satirical imagery critical of Anabaptism circulated alongside artworks ... -
Characterization the Laser Cleaning Effects on Sandstone From the Canadian Parliament Building
Laser cleaning has been used in the rehabilitation and conservation program of the Canadian Parliament Buildings in order to remove the black crust on sandstone surfaces. This study was carried out to characterize the ... -
Art Botany in Nineteenth-Century Design Reform, 1830-1865
“Art Botany in Nineteenth-Century Design Reform, 1830-1865” investigates the relationship between developments in botanical morphology and the increasingly codified principles of design reform, the state-sponsored movement ... -
All About Eve and Other Stories: Representations of Eve in French Romanesque Sculpture
Traditionally unclothed, the figure of Eve made a sudden appearance on highly visible areas in the interior and exterior of European churches, built during the great architectural efflorescence of ca. 1100, now characterised ... -
Humour and Humilitas: Wall Painting in the Palaces and Castles of Henry III of England (r: 1216-1272)
This dissertation examines Henry III of England’s residential wall painting patronage, its relationship to the king’s unique views of kingship, and the role of wall painting in the fashioning of thirteenth-century Plantagenet ... -
Faces of the Courtroom: How the Visual Elements of Portraiture Contribute to the Construction and Communication of Courtroom Sketches
The purpose of this study is to interrogate the composition and influence of courtroom sketches from an art historical perspective with the aim of demonstrating not only their importance in the public’s understanding of ... -
Nationalism and Pre-Raphaelite Art
Recent scholars of Pre-Raphaelite art have focused on the history of women, material culture, and social context. An area that has received little attention is the concept of nationalism and national identity. This thesis ... -
Art and Nature at the Court of Francesco I de’ Medici: Coral, Rock Crystal, Lapis Lazuli, and Shells
This dissertation considers the relationship between art and nature in Florence under Grand Duke Francesco I de’ Medici (1541-87) through an investigation of four materials: coral, rock crystal, lapis lazuli, and shells. ... -
The Social Practice of Crafting: Gender, Class, and Race in Western Craft
This study provides an analysis of Western amateur crafting as a social practice that is informed by a complex matrix of historical, social, cultural, ideological, and economic influences. A historical overview of amateur ... -
Interiority Complex: The Intimacy of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s Elles
Nineteenth-century Paris witnessed a proliferation of representations of prostitution, including extensive visual imagery of women of ill repute. Completed in 1896 and comprised of a cover, frontispiece and ten colour ... -
The Art of Arctic Sovereignty: Towards Visualizing the North as Canadian, 1927-1974
This dissertation deals with what I call the “visual culture of Arctic sovereignty” by attending to the political context of representations of the Arctic and Subarctic regions in Canadian modern art between 1927 and 1974. ... -
Two Hundred Wildflowers: Annora Brown’s Botanical Watercolours, Scientific Illustration, and Conservationism in Alberta
Between 1958 and 1960, artist Annora Brown conceived and compiled over two hundred botanical watercolours for the Glenbow Museum. Brown created a body of work that was documentary in nature but also imbued with personal ... -
An Experimental Gel-Based Treatment of Iron Gall Ink Corrosion Halos: Sodium Metabisulfite and Diethylene Triamine Pentaacetic Acid Solution in Agarose Gel
A research project was carried out at Queen’s University to determine the effectiveness of an agarose gel-based treatment of iron gall ink corrosion halos using reducing agent sodium metabisulfite and chelating agent ... -
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 ...
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