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Convents Clausura and Cloisters Female Religious Patronage in Late Medieval Rome and Latium
(2020-01-25)Although the past two decades have witnessed a substantial rise in the study of religious women as patrons of art, no comprehensive, in depth study has ever been devoted to Rome and Latium. Yet evidence of female patronage ... -
The Concept of 'Liveliness' in English Visual Culture, c.1560-c.1630
(2019-09-20)In contrast to the richly visual literature of late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England, the period’s visual art is usually seen as impoverished. Historians have emphasised the views of Protestant divines, for ... -
British Orientalist Painting in the Victorian Art World
(2019-09-10)My thesis examines the production, display, and sale of Orientalist paintings in relation to the four agents of the Victorian art world: the artist, dealer, press, and patron. With a particular focus on the 1880s, a decade ... -
The Politics of the Grotesque: Goya's 'Caprichos' and French Literature and Graphic Art in the Nineteenth Century (c.1799-1868).
(2019-10-26)This PhD dissertation studies the influence of Goya’s prints in nineteenth-century France, focusing on Los Caprichos (1799). It first examines the spread of Goya’s work in the French market, which became the main receptor ...
