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The Representation of Queenship in medieval French Art, the twelfth to fifteenth centuries: From Secular Queens to the Queen of Heaven

Stephanie Curtin
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2002
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: France
Period: 12th- 15th Century

10,000 words

This study of medieval French art focuses on the representation of queenship, both secular and heavenly. The iconography of the secular queen in French medieval art is considered in relation to the position of the queen in French medieval society while comparing the historical sources to the visual evidence. Contemporary sources are examined as a discussion of the ideals associated with queenship. The relationship between the representation of secular and heavenly queens is analysed in the discussion of the attachment of queenly virtues and symbols to the Virgin Mary. Chapter 3, The Queen of Heaven, discusses the development of the cult of the Virgin and representations of the Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin in French medieval art. A range of both sculpture, manuscript illumination is discussed along with some stained glass examples.

The Architecture of the Leix & Offaly Plantations: c1540-1600

Máirtín D'Alton
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2009
PhD

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 16th Century

Approx. 60,000 - 80,000 words

The Work of Filippo and Paolo Francini in Ireland with particular reference to the iconography of Carton House, No. 85 St. Stephen’s Green and Riverstown House, Co. Cork.

Adrienne Dagg
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1978
BA

Subject: Architecture, plasterwork, stuccowork
Country: Ireland
Period 18th Century

10,000 words

Basil Blackshaw - Blazing His Own Trail

Claire Dalton
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2007
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th and 21st Century

10,000 words

Early Medieval Artistic Styles in the Romanesque: 'Archaic' Architectural Sculpture in 11th-13th Century Tuscany

Eoghan Daltun
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2007
MLitt

Subject: Sculpture, Architecture
Country: Italy
Period: 11th Century to 13th Century

Supervisor: Dr Rachel Moss
Approx. 30,000-40,000 words

An Analysis of the Portraits of the Royal Children of Philip IV by Diego de Velazquez

Sinead Daly
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1996
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Spain
Period: 17th Century

10,000 words

Chimneypiece Design in Ireland, 1730-1770; Consumption, Authorship & Construction

Niamh Darling
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2020
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 18th Century

10,000 words

This study explores the factors influencing chimneypiece design in Ireland during the eighteenth century. Tracing the movement from bespoke design to serial production, this dissertation links changes in chimneypiece design to the rise of speculative housing in Dublin which resulted in a fractured approach to interior design, arguably freeing the chimneypiece from its architectural fabric and celebrating its decorative function. Taking into consideration social, economic and industrial factors, this dissertation highlights the client and craftsman as contributors to the design process rather than crediting leading contemporary architects with the sole responsibiliy of design. This disseratation posits that chimneypieces were produced and designed within a collaborative matrix and the explores the complexities of design authorship.

“As it was and where it was”. The Reconstruction of the Bridge at Sta. Trinita

Giuliano Davenport
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1993
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Italy
Period: 13th, 14th, 16th and 20th Century

10,000 words

Examining the Impact of the 2008 Recession on the Market for Irish Art

Michala Davey-Borresen
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2017
BA

Subject: Painting and Installation
Country: Ireland
Period: 21st Century

10,000 words

This dissertation will examine the global and national impact, along with the underlying causes, of the catastrophic financial and economic recession in 2008-2009 on the market for Irish art. ‘Art’ will encompass fine Art such as paintings, sculpture and tapestries and decorative Art such as glass, wood, metal, ceramic, couture and textiles. The relationship between art and money has existed for centuries: once defined as a commodity, the domain of art attracts abstract concepts and ideas that translate art into a material product, capable of being sold for financial gain. With a small population in comparison with countries such as the United States, the limited size of wealth in Ireland makes us a small domestic market and a player worth 1% of the worldwide art market. Irish buyers tend to invest more in art by Irish artists.

A Cultural and Visual Analysis of the Work of Helmut Newton in the Context of Gender, Classicism and the Psycholoanalysis of Visual Pleasure.

Isabella Davie
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2014
BA

Subject: Photography
Country: America
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

Treatment and Appropriation of Religious Themes in Contemporary Art with Particular Focus on David LaChapelle

Susan Davis
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2014
BA

Subject: Photography, Film and Digital Painting
Country: America
Period: 21st Century

10,000 words

The Education and Rearing of Children 1700-1831 from Historical and Visual sources

Marie Davis
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1992
MLitt

Subject: Painting
Period: 18th and 19th Century

Supervisor: Anne Crookshank
Approximately 30,000-40,000 words

Boyle Abbey A Historical, Architectural and Conservation Case Study

Pamela Davis
Trinity College Dublin
Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
2010
Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Building Repair and Conservation

Subject: Boyle Abbey
Country: Ireland

Approx. 15,000

Children in Irish Painting 1670-1830

Marie Davis
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1986
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Ireland
Period: 18th Century

10,000 words

Historic Background, Condition & Recommendation for the Conservation of St Mary's Church, Offaly

Rosarie Davy
Trinity College Dublin
Department of Civic, Structural & Environmental Engineering
2005
Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Building Repair and Conservation

Subject: St Mary’s Church, Offaly
Country: Ireland
Period: 18th and 19th Century

Approx. 15,000 words

Seeing Red

Penny Day
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2004
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Western Europe
Period: 25,000 B.C to 19th Century

10,000 words

An in depth survey of the use of red in the history of art, focusing on the technical elements of its production, in relation to artistsic style. From red ochre in the Paleolithic period, evoking spirituality and symbolism, and applied with and by spit, to the more divers palette of Egyptian several thousands of years later. The dissertation compares and contrasts the pigments Minium and Kermes, their different uses and effects. There is also an exploration of lauguage as bearing influence upon the popularity of one pigment over another. The dissertation then moves from the use of cinnabar in Ancient Rome where the symbolic significance of red is explored, to the use of Cochineal in the Renaissance where the palette became more diverse. Finally the primarily optical and emotional use of red in the nineteenth century was free from its more formulaic use during Renaissance. The use of red through the history of art is examined, serving several purposes, from structural to sensual.

An Analysis of the Work and Merit of Vito d’Ancona as a Painter Within the Context of the Macchia Movement

Sadhb De Barra
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2013
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Italy
Period: 19th Century

10,000 words

Killossery Cornmill Complex: A Proposal for its Rehabilitation

Feargal De Buiteléir
Trinity College Dublin
Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
2012
Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Building Repair and Conservation

Subject: Killossery Cornmill complex
Country: Ireland

Approx. 15,000

‘Pearls laid side by side’ Considering ‘Donegal Carpet’ in the Context of Design, Principles and Motifs in Ireland (c. 1888-1915)

Caitriona De Burca
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2019
BA

Subject: Carpets, Textiles, Manuscripts
Country: Ireland
Period: 19th-20th centuries

10,000 words

An Investigation into Damien Hirst’s Contribution to the Cabinets of Curiosities

Mia De las Casas
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2015
BA

Subject: Mixed Media and Installation
Country: England
Period: 20th and 21st Century

10,000 words

An Examination of Henry Jones Map of Dromana and Villerstown of 1751

Natalie de Roiste
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2004
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 18th Century

10,000 words

The role of photography in the modernisation of the Royal Hibernian Academy. Case Study: Amelia Stein

Kildine De Saint Hilaire
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2016
BA

Period: 20th Century
Subject: Photography
Country: Ireland

10,000 words

Hokusai to Araki; The Global Reception to Explicit Japanese Art

Alyssa Delahan Meade
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2020
BA

Subject: Photography/Prints
Country: Japan
Period: 19th, 20th & 21st centuries

10,000 words

This dissertation explores the relationship between the theme of eroticism in the 19th century prints of Hoksusi and the 20th century photographs of Araki. The purpose of this research is to explore the history of erotic art which has contributed to the development of explicit and shocking imagery that has come to define contemporary Japanese art from a western perspective. Further the intention is to explore the ways in which this western impression is somewhat reductive. There is a desire to sensationalise that which is unfamiliar and strange to us, leading to a skewed view of Japanese art and culture, further enforcing the role of western viewer as a scandalised voyeur. Rather than this sensational view of erotic art, there ought to be a greater acceptance of erotic art as reflective of a natural practice and universal experience.

The Inevitable Reservoir of Creative Ideation

Gregory Delaney
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1989
BA

Subject: Painting and Sculpture
Country: Various
Period: 15th-18th Century

10,000 words

Education Theses Register —Trinity College Dublin

The Representation of Queenship in medieval French Art, the twelfth to fifteenth centuries: From Secular Queens to the Queen of Heaven

The Architecture of the Leix & Offaly Plantations: c1540-1600

The Work of Filippo and Paolo Francini in Ireland with particular reference to the iconography of Carton House, No. 85 St. Stephen’s Green and Riverstown House, Co. Cork.

Basil Blackshaw - Blazing His Own Trail

Early Medieval Artistic Styles in the Romanesque: 'Archaic' Architectural Sculpture in 11th-13th Century Tuscany

An Analysis of the Portraits of the Royal Children of Philip IV by Diego de Velazquez

Chimneypiece Design in Ireland, 1730-1770; Consumption, Authorship & Construction

“As it was and where it was”. The Reconstruction of the Bridge at Sta. Trinita

Examining the Impact of the 2008 Recession on the Market for Irish Art

A Cultural and Visual Analysis of the Work of Helmut Newton in the Context of Gender, Classicism and the Psycholoanalysis of Visual Pleasure.

Treatment and Appropriation of Religious Themes in Contemporary Art with Particular Focus on David LaChapelle

The Education and Rearing of Children 1700-1831 from Historical and Visual sources

Boyle Abbey A Historical, Architectural and Conservation Case Study

Children in Irish Painting 1670-1830

Historic Background, Condition & Recommendation for the Conservation of St Mary's Church, Offaly

Seeing Red

An Analysis of the Work and Merit of Vito d’Ancona as a Painter Within the Context of the Macchia Movement

Killossery Cornmill Complex: A Proposal for its Rehabilitation

‘Pearls laid side by side’ Considering ‘Donegal Carpet’ in the Context of Design, Principles and Motifs in Ireland (c. 1888-1915)

An Investigation into Damien Hirst’s Contribution to the Cabinets of Curiosities

An Examination of Henry Jones Map of Dromana and Villerstown of 1751

The role of photography in the modernisation of the Royal Hibernian Academy. Case Study: Amelia Stein

Hokusai to Araki; The Global Reception to Explicit Japanese Art

The Inevitable Reservoir of Creative Ideation

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Trinity College Dublin