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The Mortuary Chapel at Glasnevin Cemetery

Maria Francis
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2011
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 19th Century

10,000 words

Strictly no Dancing: Didactic Representations of Salome in Renaissance Society

Joy Freeman
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2014
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Italy
Period: 15th- 16th Century

10,000 words

Sign Systems: The Portraits (1997-2000) of Julian Opie

Catherine Gaffney
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2011
BA

Subject: Graphic Design and Illustration
Country: England
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

The Artist Who Heard His Paint-Box Hiss: How Kandinsky’s Synaesthesia facilitated his articulation of das Geistige

Roisin Gaffney
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2007
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Russia
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

Albert G Power: R.H.A. 1882-1945 : His Life and Works

Aislinn Galligan
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1982
BA

Subject: Sculpture
Country: Ireland
Period: 19th and 20th Century

10,000 words

The Tower House in Co. Meath

Fiona Galway
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1980
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 15th Century

10,000 words

History Transcribed. The work of Shane Cullen

Susan Garcia
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1997
BA

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

10,000 words

La Reina Habsburgo Early Modern Representations of Majesty in the Portraits of Margarita of Austria, Isobel of Bourbon and Marianna of Austria

Katty Garcia
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2020
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Spain
Period: 17th Century

10,000 words

This dissertation primarily addresses the pictorial means by which female royal portraits of the Spanish Golden Age convey the sitter’s condition of majesty. It looks at the portraits of three queens: first, Queen Margarita of Austria, then Queen Isabel of Bourbon, and lastly Queen Mariana of Austria. While analysing these portraits, it considers factors such as the sitters’ attires, their surroundings and the socio-historical context in which these paintings were executed, including the meanings that the imagery would have communicated to the early modern viewer. To achieve this, a brief introduction is included to outline the conventions of early modern royal portraiture in Spain and the contemporarary visual means by which the monachy asserted their royal status. This will be followed by three chapters which will examine portraits of chosen sitters.

A Graphic Designer Milton Glaser Creating ‘Good Work’ Based on the Remnants of Art History

Georgina Garrigan
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2013
BA

Subject: Graphic Design
Country: America
Period: 21st Century

10,000 words

Masculinity in the work of Gerrit van Honthorst

Anna Gavigan
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2017
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Holland
Period: 17th Century

10,000 words

"‘Bernini, Borromini, and the Science of the Seicento: The Influence of Early Modern Science on the Spada Corridor and Scala Regia.’"

Georgia Geoghegan
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2023
BA

Subject: Sculpture, Architecture
Country: Italy
Period: 17th Century

10,000 words

A Study Comparing and Contrasting the Role of Cartoons and Photographs in the British Press during World War II

Helene Giacomettti
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2004
BA

Subject: Painting and Cartoons
Country: Britain
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

This dissertation offers a comparative study between the photographs and catoons published in the British Press during World War II, that served to inform and educate the British public. The dissertation is divided into three sections, the first deals with images representing events that took place on foreign soil, hugely significant in that the public’s perception and understanding of these events were shaped by these cartoons and pictures. The second part focuses on the images that were published on events that took place within Britain, and the differences between the cartoon, representing the common experience, compared to the photograph, which deals with the individual wartime experience. In the last section images of specific characters, such as Churchill and Hitler are compared, and their power in controlling the images that were released, vital for gaining public support.

The Conservation of Art: Comparative Issues in the Preservation of Manuscripts, Paintings and Sculpture

Molly Giblin
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2017
BA

Subject: Painting, Manuscripts and Sculpture
Country: Ireland, England, Belgium, Germany and France
Period: 15th – 20th Century

10,000 words

This dissertation aims to present and examine the issues facing conservation and measures they take in the effort to conserve our artistic culture. It will present and compare the conservation issues which are universal to manuscripts, paintings and sculpture. Using specific examples to highlight these common themes, projects will be set into the broader framework of conservation history, explaining how it has evolved. The central objective of this dissertation is to explore the importance of environment on an object’s condition, through the various interpretations of ‘environment’ such as climate. housing, or museum practices. It aims to achieve this objective by an assessment of recent projects and various methods, past and present, employed to attempt to preserve artistic culture.

Portraits, Politics and Pulchritude, The Court of Agnolo Bronzino

Katie Gibson
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2017
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Italy
Period: 16th Century

10,000 words

The purpose of this dissertation is to analyse the portraits of Cosimo I de’ Medici, his wife Eleonora of Toledo and their children. These portraits were painted between 1540 and the early 1560s by the Medici court artist Agnolo Bronzino and members of his workshop. These family portraits will be examined individually and a group in order to show that Bronzino had an innate quality for linking images through subtle techniques including, expression, dress and symbols. Through the examination of these portraits we will see how each painting contributed to an idyllic construction of the Medici family image, with a political agenda at the heart of the purpose they served. This thesis also aims to highlight Bronzino’s outstanding skill as an artist and making one of the finest portraitists to come out of the Italian Renaissance.

The Depiction of the Victim and the Hero in the Work of Ilya Repin and Vasily Surikov

Marianne Gill
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1994
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Russia
Period: 19th Century

10,000 words

Five Bronze Crucifixes in the Hunt Museum Limerick

Daoirdre Aine Gillanders
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2003
BA

Subject: Sculpture
Country: Western Europe
Period: 12th Century

10,000 words

Medieval Tomb Canopies in Ireland

Frances Gillespie
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1982
BA

Subject: Funerary monuments
Country: Ireland
Period: 15th and 16th Century

10,000 words

“Dublin Art-itecture”. The New, The Converted, and The Extended Art Gallery Space. 1960 - 1996

Catherine Giltrap
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1996
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

Richard Castle and his Approach to Interior Decoration with Particular Reference to Hazelwood, Co. Sligo

Hannah Glass
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2018
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 18th Century

10,000 words

This dissertation is an historical and visual analysis of Richard Castle’s background and his approach to interior design and decoration in eighteenth century Ireland. New light is given to Castle’s background through the examination of both primary and secondary sources. This was achieved through the investigation of genealogical resources primarily relating to his immediate family, including his two brothers and his wife’s family, the Truffets who were a prominent family of the linen industry during this time. Secondly, the family connnections of three of Richard Castle’s early Irish patrons were uncovered and documented. Castle’s elevational features and decorative repertoire is assessed and evaluated in order to give an understanding of his style and influence. This is done by analysing a selection of houses built by Castle.

Irish Trade Banners in context 1830 - 1900

Lisa Godson
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1994
BA

Subject: Textiles and Banners
Country: Ireland
Period: 19th Century

10,000 words

Harry Clarke's illustrations for Edgar Allen Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination and Goethe's Faust

Suzanne Elizabeth Good
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2004
BA

Subject: Painting/ Stain Glass
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

This dissertation focuses on the illustrations by Harry Clark of the two title works. It is divided into three clear sections, the first approaces Clark's varied artistic career, working between his family's Stain Glass workshop in Dublin, and his career as a successful illustrator, whose drawings were welcomed by an open-minded British public. Clarke chose each caption that he illustrated, rather than the editor, and so language is also significant in exploration of these works. His interest in the fantastic and the sublime is evident from his choices of illustrated passages. The author focuses secondly on Edgar Allen Poe's text, and how Clark's images are both striking and immediate, and in keeping with Poe's fixation on decay and mortality. Finally the dissertation focuses on Clarkes development of this style in illustrating Goethe's text, and his approach to the depiction of evil and all things sinister, without ever being gaudy or vulgar.

A survey of the Irish Industrial Exhibition of 1853

George Gordon
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1979
BA

Subject: Architecture, exhibition
Country: Ireland
Period: 19th Century

10,000 words

Natural Architecture from Nature as an Influence to Architecture to Nature Itself as Architecture

Hannah Clare Gordon
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2011
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: America, Australia, France and Ireland
Period: 20th and 21st Century

10,000 words

This dissertation examines the development of the use of nature in architecture. Its primary focus is outlining the transition from nature as influence to design to nature itself forming architecture. This process is documented through four key phases, as detailed in each of the four chapters. Chapter One analyses the presence of nature in architecture as shown by ancient and Renaissance treatises. The study of architectural theory recognizes the importance of nature to the classical approach to design. Chapter Two develops the concept that man is inherently connected to his environment. Chapter Three demonstrates that natural architecture has its basis in the Land Art movement, where structure was made from the Earth itself. Chapter Four deals with organic design and examples from contemporary architectural practice.

Black Male Figures and Their Relationship with Late Twentieth Century Media Representations in the Silhouette Panoramas of Artist Kara Walker

Catherine Aisling Grace
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2021
BA

Subject: Paper Cut-Outs, Silhoutte Tableaux
Country: USA
Period: 20th & 21st Centuries

10,000 words

Education Theses Register —Trinity College Dublin / B.A.

The Mortuary Chapel at Glasnevin Cemetery

Strictly no Dancing: Didactic Representations of Salome in Renaissance Society

Sign Systems: The Portraits (1997-2000) of Julian Opie

The Artist Who Heard His Paint-Box Hiss: How Kandinsky’s Synaesthesia facilitated his articulation of das Geistige

Albert G Power: R.H.A. 1882-1945 : His Life and Works

The Tower House in Co. Meath

History Transcribed. The work of Shane Cullen

La Reina Habsburgo Early Modern Representations of Majesty in the Portraits of Margarita of Austria, Isobel of Bourbon and Marianna of Austria

A Graphic Designer Milton Glaser Creating ‘Good Work’ Based on the Remnants of Art History

Masculinity in the work of Gerrit van Honthorst

"‘Bernini, Borromini, and the Science of the Seicento: The Influence of Early Modern Science on the Spada Corridor and Scala Regia.’"

A Study Comparing and Contrasting the Role of Cartoons and Photographs in the British Press during World War II

The Conservation of Art: Comparative Issues in the Preservation of Manuscripts, Paintings and Sculpture

Portraits, Politics and Pulchritude, The Court of Agnolo Bronzino

The Depiction of the Victim and the Hero in the Work of Ilya Repin and Vasily Surikov

Five Bronze Crucifixes in the Hunt Museum Limerick

Medieval Tomb Canopies in Ireland

“Dublin Art-itecture”. The New, The Converted, and The Extended Art Gallery Space. 1960 - 1996

Richard Castle and his Approach to Interior Decoration with Particular Reference to Hazelwood, Co. Sligo

Irish Trade Banners in context 1830 - 1900

Harry Clarke's illustrations for Edgar Allen Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination and Goethe's Faust

A survey of the Irish Industrial Exhibition of 1853

Natural Architecture from Nature as an Influence to Architecture to Nature Itself as Architecture

Black Male Figures and Their Relationship with Late Twentieth Century Media Representations in the Silhouette Panoramas of Artist Kara Walker

Education Theses Register —
Trinity College Dublin / B.A.