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Art in India's 'Age of Reform': Amateurs, Print Culture, and the Transformation of the East India Company, c.1813-1858
(2019-01-01)Two images of British India persist in the modern imagination: first, an eighteenth-century world of incipient multiculturalism, of sexual adventure amidst the hazy smoke of hookah pipes; and second, the grandiose imperialism ... -
Depicting Orthodoxy: The Novgorod Sophia icon reconsidered
(2018-07-20)The Novgorod icon of Divine Wisdom is a great innovation of fifteenth-century Russian art. It represents the winged female Sophia flanked by the Theotokos and John the Baptist. Although the icon has a contemporaneous ... -
From Cyprus to Venice: Art, Exchange and Exile across the Renaissance Mediterranean
(2018-02-07)This thesis reveals a culturally sophisticated Cypriot elite that moved with ease between Cyprus and Venice, between Orthodox and Latin devotions, between icon painting and up-to-date Italian artworks. Arranged in the form ... -
City Full of Dreams: Colonial Spaces and Modernity in Interwar Paris
(2017-12-01)This dissertation examines the role of modern design, architecture, and concepts in sites that linked Paris with France’s colonial empire in the interwar period. I argue that the colonies were a significant part of modern ...
