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The Taqrir of al-Dashtaki. Chester Beatty Library manuscript Ar4220 an illustrated treatise on astronomy written in Arabic in 16th century Persia.

Moya Carey
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1997
BA

Subject: Manuscript
Country: Iran
Period: 16th Century

10,000 words

‘Not Many Years Ago Inhabited’ A Critical Evaluation of the Restoration of Bremore Castle, Balbriggan

Ronan Carey
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2016
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Century: 16th Century

10,000 words

Guillaume Guillon-Lethiere (1760-1832) An investigation into the life and works of al mixed-race Caribbean artist in pre and post-revolutionary France

Sophie Carey
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2018
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: France
Period: 18th and 19th Century

10,000 words

This dissertation grew out of an initial inquiry into abolitionist paintings which led to the discovery of ‘Oath of the Ancestors’ by Guillaume Guillon-Lethere. Initial research into the artist (which required several variations of his surname: Le Thiers, Lethier, Lethiere) elicited few results which revealed the lack of interest and scholarship that has been devoted to Lethiere. As a result, this dissertation is a study of Guillaume Guillon-Lethiere (1760-1832), a French artist of mixed-race origins from Guadelope in the French West Indies. The dissertation seeks to prove that the lack of scholarship undertaken on the artist’s work does not reflect his prominence as an artist of his time. Lethere was not an obscure painting, but rather was one of the most prominent figures of the French art world at the end of a turbulent century.

Unravelling the origins of the Raphael Cartoons in the National Gallery of Ireland: An Investigation of the Origins of the NGI Cartoons and their Relationship to the Raphael Tapestry Cartoons in the V & A

Christine Carey
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2011
BA

Subject: Painting, Cartoons, Tapestry and Restoration
Country: Ireland and Italy
Period: 16th Century

10,000 words

This dissertation examines the origins of two full size tapestry cartoons in

the National Gallery of Ireland. Archival research was undertaken to provide documentary evidence for the provenance of the cartoons. An examination of the structure of the cartoons and a close visual analysis was carried out in order in order to provide objective criteria against which the Raphael tapestry cartoons in the V & A could be compared. The findings of this research were assimilated into a plausible historical context of tapestry and cartoon production. Overall findings suggest that the NGI cartoons are sixteenth century working tapestry cartoons, that were directly replicated from the Raphael tapestry cartoons by a process of spolvero. Their fluency and quality of painting suggest that an artist of note, who was familiar with the nuances of Raphael’s work and tapestry cartoons, was responsible for their execution.

St Ita's Hospital complex, a proposal to help maintain unoccupied red brick Victorian structures from the late 20th century for future preservation.

Sarah Carolan
Trinity College Dublin
Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
2022
Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Building Repair and Conservation

Subject: Architecture, conservation
Country: Ireland
Period: 19th and 20th Century

Approx. 15,000

An Tur Gloine and Michael Healy (1873-1941)

David Caron
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1991
PhD

Subject: Stained Glass
Country: Ireland
Period: 19th to 20th Century

Supervisor: Anne Crookshank
Approx. 60,000 - 80,000 words

‘A Blind Alley’: The Cessation of Paul Egestorff’s Artistic Career

Nicola Carroll
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2006
BA

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

10,000 words

This dissertation presents an investigation of the reasons behind the cessation of Paul Egestorff’s artistic career. The author considers Egestorff’s training under Mainie Jellett and examines the extent to which his work can be said to have progressed in style and subject matter from her teaching. His exhibitions with the Royal Hibernian Academy, Water Colour Society of Ireland, Irish Exhibition of Living Art and the White Stag Group are discussed. Particular attention is paid to the artist’s one-man show at the Grafton Gallery in 1949 with a view to assessing the relevance of the critical reception of the exhibition as the catalyst for the artist’s decision to cease painting. The author also considers the resurrgence and reassesment of Egestorff’s work in the 1990’s. The dissertation icludes extensive appendices of primary source material, such as exhibition histories, critical reviews, original catalogues

Caravaggio’s Gay Guys?

Shannon Carroll
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2017
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Italy
Period: 17th Century

10,000 words

This dissertation is a contemporary exploration and reconsideration of some of the key paintings by Caravaggio, which are often considered to evoke a sense of homoeroticism. Certain aspects of these paintings are read as homosexual inclinations of the artist and have been used as the basis for arguments supporting the artist’s homosexuality. Seductive homosexual aspects and connotations have been extrapolated from his paintings in their analysis, a continuation of which can also be seen in the work of his followers.The resulting debate emerging from this, has glorified Caravaggio and his work, creating a modern gay icon. The research conducted throughout this thesis, hopes to acknowledge these aspects of Caravaggio and his followers work, but seeks to present how this acclaimed homosexual status may be based on dogmatic terms.

Defining a Methodology for the Conservation of a Mid 20th Century Building Adapted to New Use, St Peter's College 1938 Building, Wexford

John Peter Carton
Trinity College Dublin
Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
2014
Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Building Repair and Conservation

Subject: Conservation
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

Approx. 15,000

Books and Builders: A Bibliographical Approach to Irish Eighteenth Century Architecture

Christine Casey
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1992
PhD

Subject: Architectural Publications
Country: Ireland
Period: 18th Century

Approx. 60,000 - 80,000 words

This study is an attempt to construct the bibliographical dimension of Irish eighteenth-century architectural history. Irish newspapers of the period have been combed for publication notices and subscription proposals and a representative cross-section of contemporary book catalogues has been sifted for architectural titles. The combination of these methods serves to give a general picture of the literature being collected by Irish library owners and that which was being sold by the book trade. Another avenue of approach has been the analysis of Irish manuscript materials which display a clear reliance upon published architectural works. Several curious manuscript volumes compiled in Ireland during the course of the eighteenth century vividly illustrate the usage of architectural books and prints both by amateurs and professional architects. The bookish nature of these documents demonstrates more clearly than built architecture, the assimilation of published proto-types into Irish eighteenth-century design. Having established the type of literature which was published in Ireland and that which was in general circulation, it was then requisite to consider the individuals who bought, sold, wrote, read or perused architectural publications. Irish library owners, the booksellers of Dublin and a handful of Irish architects and authors serve to humanise an otherwise exclusively bookish history. Given the preliminary state of Irish biographical studies, lengthy research was necessary to determine the identity and position of many lesser figures in the contemporary building world who were associated in a variety of ways with architectural literature. Perhaps the most useful contribution of this study to the architectural history of the period and to Irish eighteenth-century studies in general, is the new information which it provides on contemporary patrons, lesser known architects, builders and critics. This information adds significantly to our understanding of contemporary architecture.

The Eighteenth Century Hospitals in Dublin

Noreen Casey
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1982
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 18th Century

10,000 words

Luxury Modernism. A Contradiction in Terms? Investigation Modern Opulence at the Villa Cavrois by Robert Mallet-Stevens

Timothy Casserly
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2019
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: France
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

Images of Music in Religious and Genre Paintings in Seventeenth Century Italy and Spain

Ciara Cavanagh
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2008
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Italy and Spain
Period: 17th Century

10,000 words

The Construction of a Divine Image to Consolidate the Power of the Byzantine Empress 300-550 AD

Sean Ceroni
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2019
BA

Subject: Mosaics, Frescoes, Ivories, Coins, Sculpture
Country: Greece, Italy
Period: 5-6th centuries

10,000 words

Thatched Houses of Meath

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

Subject: Thatched houses
Country: Ireland

Approx. 15,000

‘Who Will Save Us? We Will Save Ourselves’ Queer Artists’ Responses to the AIDS Crisis: The Connection Between the Erotic and Activist

Kyle Chambers
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2018
BA

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

10,000 words

Salvator Rosa: A Study of his Portraits and Self-Portraits

Katy Cherry
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2003
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Italy
Period: 17th Century

10,000 words

A catalogue of the paintings and architectural drawings in the possession of Major E.A.S Cosby of Stradbally Hall with lists of the drawings and the prints

Lucv Chevenix Trench
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1977
BA

Subject: Paintings & Architectural drawing
Country: Ireland
Period 18th Century

10,000 words

A Challenge to Tradition: Examining the Role of Costume in Costume in Contemporary Irish Step Dance

Sarah Churchill
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2008
MPhil (Irish Art History)

Subject: Costume
Country: Ireland
Period: 21st Century

Supervisor: Dr Yvonne Scott
20,000

Speed, Style and Skyline: The Chrysler Building as a symbol of New York Identity

Sveva Ciofani
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2025
BA

Subject: Architecture, Design
Country: USA
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

Tastemakers An Analysis of Taste in a Postmodern Context

Adriana Ciravegna
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2013
BA

Subject: Painting, Architecture and Mixed Media
Country: England and America
Period: 20th and 21st Century

10,000 words

Viennese Actionism; the Body as a Medium

Jennifer Claffey
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2012
BA

Subject: Performance Art
Country: Austria
Period: 20th and 21st Century

10,000 words

Unveiling the Existential Element in Louis le Brocquy’s Presence Series

Helen Lee Claffey
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2017
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

The aim of this dissertation is to examine the significance of Louis le Brocquy’s Presence Series (1956-1966) under an existential discourse, namely Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Existentialism, focusing on the inexlicable nature of human existence is strongly reflected in le Brocquy’s ambiguous images of inchoate beings. The key themes preoccuping both artist and philosopher present a mutally illuminating dialogue. Le Brocquy’s focus and desire to question the existence of the elusive Presences in terms of the visible and the invisible will be correlated with Merleau-Ponty’s texts on similar concerns. Although le Brocquy was not a self-declared existentialist, a philosophical understanding of the mysterious and expressive work from this decade sets out to resituate le Brocquy in an international context.

“Heroism, royalty and the Street.” The Life and Works of Jean-Michel Basquiat

Dan Clancy
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2004
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: America
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

Education Theses Register —Trinity College Dublin

The Taqrir of al-Dashtaki. Chester Beatty Library manuscript Ar4220 an illustrated treatise on astronomy written in Arabic in 16th century Persia.

‘Not Many Years Ago Inhabited’ A Critical Evaluation of the Restoration of Bremore Castle, Balbriggan

Guillaume Guillon-Lethiere (1760-1832) An investigation into the life and works of al mixed-race Caribbean artist in pre and post-revolutionary France

Unravelling the origins of the Raphael Cartoons in the National Gallery of Ireland: An Investigation of the Origins of the NGI Cartoons and their Relationship to the Raphael Tapestry Cartoons in the V & A

St Ita's Hospital complex, a proposal to help maintain unoccupied red brick Victorian structures from the late 20th century for future preservation.

An Tur Gloine and Michael Healy (1873-1941)

‘A Blind Alley’: The Cessation of Paul Egestorff’s Artistic Career

Caravaggio’s Gay Guys?

Defining a Methodology for the Conservation of a Mid 20th Century Building Adapted to New Use, St Peter's College 1938 Building, Wexford

Books and Builders: A Bibliographical Approach to Irish Eighteenth Century Architecture

The Eighteenth Century Hospitals in Dublin

Luxury Modernism. A Contradiction in Terms? Investigation Modern Opulence at the Villa Cavrois by Robert Mallet-Stevens

Images of Music in Religious and Genre Paintings in Seventeenth Century Italy and Spain

The Construction of a Divine Image to Consolidate the Power of the Byzantine Empress 300-550 AD

Thatched Houses of Meath

‘Who Will Save Us? We Will Save Ourselves’ Queer Artists’ Responses to the AIDS Crisis: The Connection Between the Erotic and Activist

Salvator Rosa: A Study of his Portraits and Self-Portraits

A catalogue of the paintings and architectural drawings in the possession of Major E.A.S Cosby of Stradbally Hall with lists of the drawings and the prints

A Challenge to Tradition: Examining the Role of Costume in Costume in Contemporary Irish Step Dance

Speed, Style and Skyline: The Chrysler Building as a symbol of New York Identity

Tastemakers An Analysis of Taste in a Postmodern Context

Viennese Actionism; the Body as a Medium

Unveiling the Existential Element in Louis le Brocquy’s Presence Series

“Heroism, royalty and the Street.” The Life and Works of Jean-Michel Basquiat

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