W&L Dept. of Art and Art History
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"God is the Perfect Comprehension:" Faith, Form, and Feeling in Zelda Fitzgerald's Deposition
This paper examines Fitzgerald's Deposition from angles biographical as well as formal and iconographical, relating the piece to her personal system of aesthetics as well as her prior work in order to examine the impact ... -
The Challenges Facing Changemakers in Increasing Museum Collection & Exhibit Inclusivity (thesis)
Over the last forty years, growing demands from activists and stakeholders have increased pressure on museums throughout the United States to diversify their permanent collections, exhibitions and programming by including ... -
Florence + The Machine: A Computational Approach to Florentine Liturgical Manuscript Illuminations from the Late Trecento (thesis)
This thesis investigates early methods to use artificial intelligence to sort images of medieval Italian manuscript illuminations by workshop from 1360 to 1400. Sorted images were passed through a 2-dimensional convolutional ... -
Dating a Femme Fatale: Donatello's Judith and Holofernes and the Battle of Anghiari (thesis)
The Battle of Anghiari marks the only moment in Cosimo's reign where he faced internal and external threats joined against Florence. Judith, a character often used to personify virtues, takes on the role of a Medicean-led ... -
A Mat of Serpents: Aztec Strategies of Control from an Empire in Decline
As an amalgamation of the self and the other, identity offers a blurred line between liberation and limitation. In skewing too far toward the self, the individual risks stagnation, blinding themselves to the possibilities ... -
No Strings Attached: Fernando Botero's "Boy Playing Guitar" in Context
This thesis serves to expand upon our understanding of Fernando Botero's early career through the analysis of an undocumented work entitled "Boy Playing Guitar." This painting is a crucial work in Botero's early stylistic ... -
We Warred Over Art: Pandemonium at Le Sacre du Printemps (thesis)
Diaghilev continued this process of bringing Russian art to France under the auspices of the Ballets Russes. With this company, Diaghilev assembled dozens of innovative artists, choreographers, and composers with the common ... -
Res Publica and the Macy's on 34th Street (thesis)
This shift in perspective in turn articulates the protean nature of New York City's worldbuilding projects--their intentional and unintentional uses--provides the framework for the history of the department store type, and ... -
If Walls Could Talk: A Case Study at Pompeii (thesis)
Building upon the work of Bettina Bergmann, who shows the critical importance of memory in the creation and reception of Roman domestic painting, I will explore the complexity and multivalence of Roman collective social ... -
Re-Imagined Elephants: Authenticity, Authority, and Culture in Indian and South African Souvenirs (thesis)
In brief, then, to properly understand these elephants and other cultural constructions, I posit that these souvenirs present ‘imagined representations' – deliberate, economically beneficial, and performative identities ... -
Vox Clamantis in Deserto: Carthusian Experience in the Papal Chapel at Villeneuve (thesis)
The scholarship that has dealt with Giovanetti tends to focus on his surviving works in the Palace of the Popes, especially the chapels of St. Martial and St. John. These spaces have survived more or less intact, and they ... -
Adriana Corral: Reimagining U.S. History and Creating Memory Along the U.S.-Mexico Border Through Unearthed: Desenterrado (thesis)
By approaching Corral's work from a theoretical perspective, one more fully appreciates how Unearthed: Desenterrado works to acknowledge the dominant historical narrative and how it manipulates which memories are remembered. ... -
The Power of Ojbects: An Exploration Into the Work of Chiharu Shiota (thesis)
I begin this thesis with a discussion of Shiota's Across the Continents. Seeing this exhibit in the spring of 2015 inspired what was to become this year-long project. Throughout this thesis, I explore Shiota's Across the ... -
The Symbiotic Relationship Between Klimt and the Bourgeoisie for the Development of Artistic Identity (thesis)
Fin-de-siècle Vienna was a hotbed of cultural activity with an ethnically diverse population because it was the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. This turbulent time in history led to the formation of the Vienna ... -
Affect(ed) (thesis)
I survived with only 28 stitches and the loss of feeling in my right ear. But the physical scars healed much faster than those on the inside. . . . Through interviews with my family, I began to dissect many of these ... -
The Democratization of American Art: Horatio Greenough's George Washington and the Era of the Common Man
Considering that Greenough's Washington represents the first federal commission granted to an American sculptor, art historical literature on this sculpture is surprisingly limited. The leading scholar on Greenough and his ... -
At the Forefront of Feminism: William Merritt Chase and the American New Woman
Chase married Alice Gerson, whose father managed a large lithography firm, in 1886. She proved to be an inspiration for Chase throughout the rest of his life and frequently appears in his work. While other artists painted ...