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The Art of the Steal Imitation and Stylistic Appropriation in the Painting of Cinquecento Venice

Mark Tully
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2017
MA

Subject: Venetian Painting
Country: Italy
Period: 16th Century

Supervisor: Dr Philip Cottrell
15,000 words

Improved procedures for designing shading to reduce overheating in residential buildings

Iman Ossama Abd Elgawad
University College Dublin
UCD School of Architecture, Planning & Environmental Policy
2004
Masters of Architectural Science

Subject: Environmental engineering

Supervisor: Professor J. Owen Lewis

Place or None-place: Contemporary Performance Art and Artists in Ireland

Elizabeth Mary Agnew
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2008
MA

Period: Contemporary Performance Art
Country: Ireland
Period: 21st Century

Supervisor: Dr. Paula Murphy and Dr. Carmen Szabo
15,000 words

Looking at Modern Art, Visual Literacy as a Creative Tool in the Primary School Classroom

Claire Ahearne
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2013
MA

Subject: Education
Country: Ireland
Period: 21st Century

Supervisor: Dr. Emily Mark-Fitzgerald
15,000 words

Nineteenth Century Genre and Sentimental Painting

Mark Aherne
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
1996
MA (research)

Subject: Painting
Period: 19th Century

Supervisor: Professor McCarthy

Brown Thomas: The Merging of Artists with Department Stores and their Products

Erin Akinaka
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2016
MA

Subject: Painting
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Professor Kathleen James-Chakraborty
15,000 words

Dublin Cabinetmakers and their Clientele in the period 1880-1841

Angela Alexander
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2006
PhD

Subject: Furniture
Country: Ireland
Period: 19th Century

Supervisor: Dr. Christine Casey
80,000-100,000 words

Museums, Migration and Cultural Diversity: Narratives and Practices in Ireland and Germany

Edith Andrees
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2016
PhD

Subject: Comparative Study of Museums, Migration and Cultural Diversity in Ireland and Germany
Country: Ireland and Germany
Period: 20th and 21st Century

Supervisor: Professor Kathleen James-Chakraborty
80,000-100,000 words

Aspects of improving the energy efficiency of existing residential buildings

Eleni Andreou
University College Dublin
UCD School of Architecture, Planning & Environmental Policy
2000
Masters of Architectural Science

Subject: Energy Conservation
Country: Various

Supervisor: Professor J. Owen Lewis

The Value of Fashion to Middle-Class Dublin Women, Advertising and Identity in the Year of the 1907 Irish International Exhibition

Kate Andrews
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2019
MA (minor thesis)

Subject: Fashion
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Dr Conor Lucey

70 pages

Remembering & Forgetting: Memory & Gender in Contemporary Irish Time Based Art

Kate Antosik Parsons
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2011
PhD

Subject: Art
Country: Ireland
Period: Contemporary

Supervisor: Dr. Paula Murphy
80,000-100,000 words

The Measure of an Athlete: A Mathematical Study of Polykleitos' Athletes

David Archbold
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2016
MA

Subject: Greek and Roman Sculpture
Country: Greece and Italy
Period: 5th Century BC/ 2nd Century AD

Supervisor: Associate Professor Lynda Mulvin
15,000 words

Shaping Modern Spaces: Exploring Dynamics in the Modernist Designs of Eileen Gray and Lilly Reich

Paula Arning
University College Dublin
Department of Art History and Cultural Policy
2023
MA (Minor Thesis)

Subject: Architecture/Design/Modern
Country: Various
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Associate Professor Fiona Smyth
72 pages

George Campbell, R.H.A. (1917-1979)

Michelle Bailey
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
1992
MA (research)

Subject: Painting
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Dr. Paula Murphy

Light and embodied experience in the reimagined birth environment

Doreen Balabanoff
University College Dublin
UCD School of Architecture, planning & environmental policy
2017
Master in Urban & Building Conservation

Subject: Designing women’s hospitals
Country: Ireland

20,000-40,000 words

Beautiful Kitchen: An Exploration of Joachim Beuckelaer’s The Four Elements

Kelly Baldwin
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2007
MA

Country: Ireland and Egypt
Period: 2nd to 16th Centuries

Supervisor: Dr. John Loughman
15,000 words

Thangka Art and Iconography: an Amalgamation of Different Art Style and Literature

Srishti Balodi
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2019
MA (minor thesis)

Subject: Buddhist Art
Country: Tibet and India
Period: Various

Supervisor: Professor Kathleen James-Chakraborty
69 pages

Eileen Gray’s Camping Style: A historical analysis of the artist’s response to the machine aesthetic of the modern movement

Juan Rafael Balpuesta Olvera
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2020
MA (minor thesis)

Subject: Modernist Furnityre
Country: Ireland/ European
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Professor Kathleen James-Chakraborty
71 pages

A Caravaggesque Enigma: challenging the attribution of “The Denial of St Peter” in the National Gallery of Ireland to the Pensionante del Saraceni

Helen Bannon
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2022
MA (Minor Thesis)

Subject: Painting
Country: Italy
Period: 17th Century

Supervisor: Associate Professor Philip Cottrell

Vol 1: 118 pages including illustrations and bibliography, Vol 2: 58 illustrations

Sun is God” Final words attributed to the painter William Turner (1775-1851)

Jennifer Barron
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2007
MA

Subject: Painting
Country: Ireland
Period: 16th Century

Supervisor: Dr. Lynda Mulvin
15,000 words

Buffalo's Gilded Age: A Story of Architecture and Landscape Design

Susan Barry
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2017
PhD

Subject: Architecture
Country: Canada
Period: 19th Century

Supervisor: Professor Kathleen James-Chakraborty
80,000-100,000 words

Art and politics in England, Germany and Ireland from 1900-1933 as seen through the works of George Groze, Stanley Spencer and Jack B Yeats and contrasted with Kathe Kollwitz, Vanessa Bell and Grace Plunkett

Fiona Bauer
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
1994
MA

Subject: Painting
Country: Ireland, England & Germany
Period: 20th century

Supervisor: Dr Paula Murphy
15,000 words

St Francis Abbey brewery Kilkenny

Roger John Beeken
University College Dublin
UCD School of Architecture, Planning & Environmental Policy
2009
Masters in Urban & Building Conservation

Subject: St Francis Abbey brewery
Country: Ireland