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Francisco de Zurbarán and his Workshop's Painting Production for the Americas: Trade, Collections and Reception
Paintings by the Spanish seventeenth-century artist Francisco de Zurbarán (1598-1664) have been documented to have reached Latin America between 1636 and 1649. Zurbarán was mostly active in Seville, the main Spanish port ... -
Accommodating the Picturesque: The Country Houses of James Wyatt, John Nash and John Soane, 1793–1815
Premised on the underlying principles and aims of the Picturesque in architecture—among them, the grounding of a house within its surrounding landscape, a greater eclecticism of style and embrace of asymmetry, an emphasis ... -
The Development of the Speculative Office in Inter-war England
(2021-01-26)This thesis provides the first comprehensive exploration and assessment of the speculative office building in inter-war England. Both instruments of revenue and containers of office space, buildings of this type and period ... -
The Business of Sculpture in Venice, 1525-1625
(2017-04-29)This thesis offers, for the first time, an in-depth study of the principal aspects of the business of sculpture in Venice from 1525 to 1625. Based on systematic examination, analysis and interpretation of myriad archival ...
