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Plans, Plana and Pendulo: A Proto-History of Architectural Drawing in Richard of St Victor’s De Ezechielis

Karl Kinsella
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2010
BA

Subject: Architecture and Manuscripts
Country: England and France
Period: 12th and 13th Century

10,000 words

Few writers have attempted to trace the origins of architectural drawing before the appearance of Villard de Honnecourt’s Portfolio. This paper traces earlier forms of architectural drawing to the last quarter of the 12th century. Richard of St Victor’s exegetical text, with its highly detailed and well organised plans and elevations provides an opportunity to examine this proto-history of architectural drawing. The manuscript indirectly testifies to the existence of relatively sophisticated drawing sixty years before Villard’s work. Formalist analysis will be carried out to contextualise Richard’s work with earlier and subsequent representations of plans and elevations. The exegetical text will also be examined. This results in a prologue to many surveys of architectural drawings which begin in the early 13th century.

Fairy Queens and Princesses. The depiction and interpretation of fairy themes and female fairy characters, in painting and children’s book illustration, from the mid to late nineteenth century.

Emily-Jane Kirwan
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1996
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Various
Period: 19th Century

10,000 words

International Tendencies in the Work of Michael Scott, with Particular Reference to his Social Housing Schemes in Dublin City Centre

Iseult Kirwan
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2007
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

This dissertation examines the international tendencies in the designs of Michael Scott and his firm. The author argues that while Scott’s contribution to the dissemination of the International Style in Irish architecture is well documented, his use of the modern style in social housing schemes is largely unwritten. The primary research for this project includes the close examination of archival material, such as original drawings, contemporary journals and records, as well as a close examination of the buildings themselves. The two schemes studied are those on Charlemont St. and on Bridgefoot St., produced 1933 - 59. The author explores the sources for these designs, and the extent to which Scott adapted these sources to suit the context in which they were used. The final section is concerned with conservation of these buildings. Incl. interview with S. Rothery.

St. Mary’s Cathedral, Killarney, Co. Kerry. Augustus Welby Pugin & others.

Seán Kissane
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1997
BA

Subject: Architecture, Sculpture and Furniture design
Country: Ireland
Period: 19th Century

10,000 words

Galleries Without Walls: The Site Specificity of Contemporary Public Sculpture in County Sligo

Rosemary Kitchin
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2005
MPhil (Irish Art History)

Subject: Sculpture
Country: Ireland: Sligo
Period: 20th Century and 21st Century

Supervisor: Dr. Yvonne Scott
20,000

Holbein’s Dance of Death

Emma Klyne
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2014
BA

Subject: Prints, Engravings and Woodcuts
Country: Germany
Period: 16th Century

10,000 words

This thesis examines the designs for forty-one woodcut engravings which were entitled ‘The Dance of Death’ or Danse Macabre which were done during the years 1524-26. The interest in death as a subject and treated in an allegorical manner shows the preoccupation with mortality in the fifteenth century. The origins of The ‘Dance of Death’ or Danse Macabre postulated to be from illustrated sermons, The popularity of the Dance of Death lasted through the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Holbein’s ‘Dance of Death, like many earlier depictions of this theme, not only shows a method through which repentence could be taught, but also the anxieties towards death and religion which affected people during this period. This subject provided an unparelleled opportunity for the broader contemplation of mortality.

Powerscourt Town House : An Architectural and decorative history

Maeve Kneafsey
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1985
BA

Subject: Architecture, applied arts
Country: Ireland
Period: 18th Century

10,000 words

Painting Conservation: A Remedy for Art History?

Weronica Kocurikeiewicz
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2019
BA

Subject: Painting and Mixed Media
Country: Italy
Period: 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th & 21st Centuries

10,000 words

Old English Female Costumes in Late Medieval Ireland

Laura Kovacs
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2006
MPhil (Irish Art History)

Subject: Costume
Country: Ireland
Period: 12th Century to 14th Century

Supervisor: Dr Rachel Moss
20,000

The Domestic Cat in Insular Art and Continental European Manuscripts of the Medieval Period

Ciara Marianna Kummert
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2019
BA

Subject: Manuscripts, Sculpture
Country: Ireland
Period: 8th-15th centuries

10,000 words

Japonisme: The Ripple Effect

Roisin Lacey-McCormac
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2012
BA

Subject: Painting and Prints
Country: Japan and France
Period: 19th and 20th Century

10,000 words

The collections of Trinity College Dublin: a history and analysis of the state and extent of the College collections during their golden age.

Henry L. Lakin

Trinity College Dublin

Department of History of Art and Architecture

2014

BA

Subject: Painting

Country: Ireland

Period: 19th Century

Trinity College Dublin possesses a great deal of material that is known as the Trinity College collections. Dispersed in different locations throughout the College, some of the constituent parts of the collections are shadows of their former selves. Once the jewels in College’s crown and housed in purpose built, state of the art museums, these collections came to prominence during the nineteenth century. This was the century that witnessed the golden age of collecting and collections worldwide. The focus is on the collections generally, but principally on what became the College teaching collections. These were the botanical, geological and zoological collections. This dissertation describes and analyses the circumstances behind the rise of the collections during the nineteenth century.

The Influence of Classical Antiquity on Four Contemporary Irish Artists. John Kindness, Felim Egan, Patrick Hall and Sharon O’Malley

Keavy Lalor
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1994
BA

Subject: Painting, Sculpture and Drawing
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

To What Extent has Nietzsche’s Philosophy Influenced Edward Munch and in Particular the Scream?

Alexandra Langley-Evans
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2014
BA

Subject: Painting and Prints
Country: Norway
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

Art as a Spiritual Force'

John Michael Lappin
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2021
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

The Sublime and the Art of Transcendence

Alison Larkin
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2010
BA

Subject: Digital media and Installation art
Country: England, Ireland and America
Period: 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st Century

10,000 words

The Influence of Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Florentine Social Customs on Two Types of Chests Involved in the Marriage Ritual

Roisin Lauder
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2017
BA

Subject: Painting, Wood and Ivory
Country: Italy
Period: 15th and 16th Century

10,000 words

St. Nicholas of Myra and its Two Architects. An Historical and Architectural Survey

Mildred Lawler
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1992
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 19th Century

10,000 words

James Cavanagh Murphy

Catherine Alice Lawless
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1990
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 18th and 19th Century

10,000 words

The Cult and Iconography of Saint Anne in Late Medieval Europe with Particular Reference to Florence 1343 to 1528

Catherine Alice Lawless
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2000
PhD

Subject: Iconography
Country: Europe and Italy
Period: 14th Century to 16th Century

‘Illustrating Dante’: A Study of the Woodcuts in an Edition of Dante’s Commedia (Venice: Cremonese, 1491) in the Collection of Trinity College Library, in the Context of Illustrated Editions of the Commedia in Italy, 1480-1500

Francesca Lemass
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2006
BA

Subject: Print and Woodcut
Country: Italy
Period: 15th Century

10,000 words

'Guilded Squalor'. An evaluation of Francis Bacon's 7 Reece Mews Studio

Trevor Leonard
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2002
BA

Subject: Painting and Architecture
Country: England and Ireland
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

This dissertation discusses the Studio of the artist Francis Bacon, originally located in Kensington, London, recently reconstructed at the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin. This study examines all aspects of the studio and its reconstruction including surrounding issues such as our understanding of an artist's studio and the history of artist's studios. The studio is placed in the context of nineteenth century artist's studios and also other studios occupied by Bacon. The dissertation gives an outline and evaluation of the Hugh Lane reconstruction project. Chapter three æA post Mortem' of the studio, discusses the detailed story of the removal of the studio from London and its reconstruction at Dublin, while the following chapter discusses the 'Placing of the Studio in a Gallery Context'. An accompanying volume includes numerous illustrations of the studio and its contents along with plans situating thestudio in the gallery space.

The Work of Paula Modersohn-Becker in its Context

Anne Leonard
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1991
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Germany
Period: 19th and 20th Century

10,000 words

Understanding Iconic Architecture as a Source of Meaning in the Pre-Global and Global Era

Mealy Lim
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2020
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 21st Century

10,000 words

The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the different approaches to creating iconic architecture in the pre-global and global era. This topic is explored through two case study buildings within Dublin city; James Gandon’s design for the Custom House (1791) and Kevin Roche’s National Convention Centre (2010). This dissertation argues that preglobal iconic buildings utilised and adopted pre-existing archetypes, with great legilbility to convey dominance. This is distinct to some cases of iconic architecture from the global era which, it has been argued, to preface originality and ‘uniqueness’ in order to ‘stand out’ and assert dominance on an international stage. A further dimension to this analysis considers the impact of inner-city competition of the global era on the cultural expression of iconic architecture.

Education Theses Register —Department of History of Art and Architecture

Plans, Plana and Pendulo: A Proto-History of Architectural Drawing in Richard of St Victor’s De Ezechielis

Fairy Queens and Princesses. The depiction and interpretation of fairy themes and female fairy characters, in painting and children’s book illustration, from the mid to late nineteenth century.

International Tendencies in the Work of Michael Scott, with Particular Reference to his Social Housing Schemes in Dublin City Centre

St. Mary’s Cathedral, Killarney, Co. Kerry. Augustus Welby Pugin & others.

Galleries Without Walls: The Site Specificity of Contemporary Public Sculpture in County Sligo

Holbein’s Dance of Death

Powerscourt Town House : An Architectural and decorative history

Painting Conservation: A Remedy for Art History?

Old English Female Costumes in Late Medieval Ireland

The Domestic Cat in Insular Art and Continental European Manuscripts of the Medieval Period

Japonisme: The Ripple Effect

The collections of Trinity College Dublin: a history and analysis of the state and extent of the College collections during their golden age.

The Influence of Classical Antiquity on Four Contemporary Irish Artists. John Kindness, Felim Egan, Patrick Hall and Sharon O’Malley

To What Extent has Nietzsche’s Philosophy Influenced Edward Munch and in Particular the Scream?

Art as a Spiritual Force'

The Sublime and the Art of Transcendence

The Influence of Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Florentine Social Customs on Two Types of Chests Involved in the Marriage Ritual

St. Nicholas of Myra and its Two Architects. An Historical and Architectural Survey

James Cavanagh Murphy

The Cult and Iconography of Saint Anne in Late Medieval Europe with Particular Reference to Florence 1343 to 1528

‘Illustrating Dante’: A Study of the Woodcuts in an Edition of Dante’s Commedia (Venice: Cremonese, 1491) in the Collection of Trinity College Library, in the Context of Illustrated Editions of the Commedia in Italy, 1480-1500

'Guilded Squalor'. An evaluation of Francis Bacon's 7 Reece Mews Studio

The Work of Paula Modersohn-Becker in its Context

Understanding Iconic Architecture as a Source of Meaning in the Pre-Global and Global Era

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