The Institute of Fine Arts Dissertations

1979

Barbara von Barghahn , The Pictorial Decoration of the Buen Retiro Palace During the Reign of Philip IV. Advisor: Jonathan Brown

Lionel Bier , The “Sassanian Palace” Near Sarvistan. Advisor: Donald P. Hansen

Barbara Bohen , The Attic Geometric Pyxis. Advisor: Günter H. Kopcke

Edger Peters Bowron , The Paintings of Benedetto Luti (1666-1724). Advisor: Donald Posner

Ronny H. Cohen , Alexandra Exter and Western Europe: An Iquiry into Russian-Western Relations in Art, Theater and Design in the Early Twentieth Century. Advisor: Gert Schiff

Patricia D. Eichenbaum , The Development of a Narrative Cycle Based on the Life of the Buddha in India, Central Asia, and the Far East: Literary and Pictorial Evidence. Advisor: Alexander Soper

Elizabeth Gordon , The Panel Reliefs on Marcus Aurelius. Advisor: Peter von Blanckenhagen

Vivian A. Hibbs , The Mendes Maze: A Libation Table for the Genius of the Inundation of the Nile. Advisor: Bernard von Bothmer

Ira S. Mark , Nike and the Cult of Athena Nike on the Athenian Acropolis. Advisor: Evelyn B. Harrison

Melissa A. McQuillan , Painters and the Ballet, 1917-1926: An Aspect of the Relationship between Art and Theatre. Advisor: Robert Rosenblum

Marc H. Miller , Lafayette’s Farewell Tour of America, 1824-25: A Study of the Pageantry and Public Portraiture. Advisor: Robert Rosenblum

Linda Morey Papanicolaou , Stained Glass Windows of the Choir of the Cathedral of Tours. Advisor: Harry Bober

Peninah Petruck , American Art Criticism: 1910-1939. Advisor: Jim M. Jordan

Monica Strauss , The Master of the Barberinig Panels: Fra Carnevale. Advisor: Colin T. Eisler

Edward J. Sullivan , Claudio Coello and Late Baroque Painting in Madrid. Advisor: Jonathan Brown

Joan Diamond Udovitch , The Papeleu Master: a Parisian Manuscript Illuminator of the Early Fourteenth Century. Advisor: Florens Deuchler

Estelle J. Whelan , The Public Figure: Political Iconography in Medieval Mesopotamia. Advisor: Richard Ettinghausen

Paul Yule , Early Cretan Seals: A Study in Typology, Style and Chronology. Advisors: Donald P. Hansen and Jane Hayward

1978

Marian Burleigh , George Russel (AE): The Painter of the Irish Renaissance. Advisor: Gert Schiff

Marianne Eaton-Krauss , The Representations of Statues on Old Kingdom Private Tombs. Advisor: Henry G. Fischer

Kristine Edmondson , The Psalter of Henry of Blois: A Study in Romanesque Manuscript Illumination. Advisor: Harry Bober

Laurie S. Fusco , The Nude as Protagonist: Pollajuolo’s Figural Style Explicated by Leonardo’s Study of Static Anatomy, Movement, and Functional Anatomy. Advisor: Colin T. Eisler

Kahtryn Moore Heleniak , William Mulready, R.A. (1786-1863): British Landscape and Genre Artist. Advisor: Robert Rosenblum

Joel Herschmann , The Thirteenth Century Chevet of the Cathedral of Coutances. Advisor: Marvin L. Trachtenberg

Judith W. Hurtig , The Armored Gisant Before 1400. Advisor: H.W. Janson

Marilyn Jenkins , Medieval Maghribi Ceramics. Advisor: Richard Ettinghausen

Charlotte Lacaze , The Vie de St. Denis Manuscript: (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Ms. Fr. 2090-2092). Advisor: Florens Deuchler

Sarah Bradford Landau , Edward T. And William A. Potter: American High Victorian Architects, 1855-1901. Advisor: Henry Russell Hitchcock

Jay Alan Levenson , Jacopo de’Barbari and Northern Art of the Early Sixteenth Century. Advisor: Colin T. Eisler

Charles B. McClendon , The Medieval Abbey Church at Farfa. Advisor: Richard Krautheimer

Leatrice Mendelsohn-Martone , Benedetto Varchi’s “Due Lezzioni”: Paragoni and Cinquecento Art Theory. Advisor: H.W. Janson

Anita Fiderer Moskowitz , Studies in the Sculpture of Andrea Pisano: Origins and Development of his Style. Advisor: Marvin L. Trachtenberg

Robert S. Nelson , Text and Image in a Byzantine Gospel Book in Istanbul (Ecumenical Patriarchate, cod. 3). Advisors: Hugo Buchtal and H.W. Janson

Charles E. von Nostitz , Late Gothic Sculpture of Cologne. Advisors: Colin T. Eisler

Ellen C. Schwartz , The Original Fresco Decoration in the Church of the Holy Apostles in the Patriarchate of Pec. Advisor: Hugo Buchthal

Nancy J. Scott , Vincenzo Vela (1820-91). Advisor: H.W. Janson

Isabel Combs Stuebe , The Life and Works of William Hodges. Advisor: Robert Rosenblum

Jaimee Elizabeth Uhlenrock , The Protomai from Gela: History, Chronology, Style. Advisor: Günter H. Kopcke

Michael L. Ward , Studies on the Pórtico de la Gloria at the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. Advisor: Marvin L. Trachtenberg

Sally West-Robertson , Marguerite Gerard: 1761-1837. Advisor: Robert Rosenblum

Marina D. Whitman , Persian Blue-and-white Ceramics: Cycles of Chinoiserie. Advisor: Richard Ettinghausen

Kathleen Isabelle Matics , An historical analysis of the fine arts at Wat Phra Chetuphon, a repository of Ratanakosin artistic heritage. Advisor: Alexander Soper

1977

Robert Nicholas Adams , Baldassare Peruzzi: Architect to the Republic of Siena 1527-1535. Advisor: Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt

Carol Moon Cardon , The Berlin Painter and his School. Advisor: Dietrich von Bothmer

Beth Cohen , Attic Bilingual Vases and their Painters. Advisor: Dietrich von Bothmer

Kathleen Alden Giles , The Strozzi Chapel in Santa Maria Novella: Florentine Painting and Patronage 1340-1355. Advisor: Marvin L. Trachtenberg

William E. Hood, Jr. , Titian’s Narrative Art: Some Religious Paintings for Venetian Patrons, 1518-1545. Advisor: Donald Posner

Charles T. Little , The Magdeburg Ivory Group: a Tenth Century New Testament Narrative Cycle. Advisor: Harry Bober

Vivian B. Mann , Romanesque Ivory Tablemen. Advisor: Harry Bober

Temily Mark-Weiner , Narrative Cycles of the Life of St. George in Byzantine Art. Advisor: Hugo Buchthal

Mario Thomas Martone , The Theme of the Conversion of Paul in Italian Paintings from the Early Christian Period to the Early Renaissance. Advisors: Colin T. Eisler and Günter H. Kopcke

Andrea S. Norris , The Tomb of Gian Galeazzo Visconti at the Certosa di Pavia. Advisor: H.W. Janson

Elizabeth Schwartzbaum , The Romanesque Sculpture of the Cathedral of Tournaui. Advisor: Harry Bober

Susan Mullin Vogel , Baule Art as the Expression of a World View. Advisor: Robert Goldwater

Sarah Wilk , Iconological Problems in the Sculpture of Tullio Lombardo. Advisor: Irving Lavin

1976

Robert Steven Bianchi , The Striding Draped Male Figure of Ptolemaic Egypt. Advisor: Bernard von Bothmer

Diana M. Buitron , Douris. Advisor: Dietrich von Bothmer

Zimeri Alvin Cox , Ugolino di Preste Ilario, Painter and Mosaicist. Advisor: H.W. Janson

Patrick M. De Winter , The Patronage of Philippe le Hardi, Duke of Burgundy 1364-1404. Advisor: Colin T. Eisler

Martha Levine Dunkelman , Donatello’s Influence on Italian Renaissance Painting. Advisors: H.W. Janson, Roy Sieber

Josephine Gear , Masters or Servants? A Study of Selected English Painters and their Patrons of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries. Advisor: Gert Schiff

Michael Jacoff , A Bolognese Psalter of the Late Thirteenth Century and its Byzantine Sources. Advisors: Hugo Buchthal and Henry G. Fischer

Constance Lowenthal , Conrat Meit. Advisor: H.W. Janson

Jane Timken Matthews , The Pantocrator: Title and Image. Advisor: Hugo Buchtal

Myra Dickman Orth , Progressive Tendencies in French Manuscript Illumination, 1515-1530: Goefroy la Batava and the 1520’s Hours Workshop. Advisor: Colin T. Eisler

Maurice Poirier , Studies on the Concepts of Disegno, Invenzione and Colore in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-century Italian Art and Theory. Advisor: Craig Hugh Smyth

Marie Tanner , Titian: The Poesie for Philip II. Advisor: Colin T. Eisler

Burr E. Wallen , Hemessen: Style and Iconography. Advisor: Colin T. Eisler

Carolyn Wilson , Bellini’s Pesaro Altarpiece: A Study in Context and Meaning. Advisor: Colin T. Eisler

1975

Linda Freeman Bauer , On the Origins of the Oil Sketch: Form and Function in Cinquecento Preparatory Techniques. Advisor: Donald Posner

Mary Braman Buchan , The Paintings of Pieter Aertsen. Advisor: Colin T. Eisler

Slobodan Curcic , Granacia: History, Architecture and Relationship to Contemporary Paleogian Churchers. Advisor: Richard Krautheimer

June Ellen Hargrove , The Life and Work of Albert Ernest Carrier-Belleuse. Advisor: H. W. Janson

Dale Kinney , S. Maria in Trastevere form its Founding to 1215. Advisor: Richard Krautheimer

Richard E. Lamoureux , Alberti’s Church of San Sebastiano in Mantua. Advisor: Richard Krautheimer

Eunice Lipton , Picasso Critcisim, 1901-1939: The Making of an Artist-Hero. Advisor: Gert Schiff

John Ferrata Omelia , Niccolò da Foligno and his Frescoes for S. Maria-in-Campis. Advisor: Colin T. Eisler

Elizabeth Crawford Parker , The Descent from the Cross: Its Relation to the Extra-liturgical Depositio Drama. Advisor: Harry Bober

Sheila Schwartz , The Iconography of the Rest on the Flight into Egypt. Advisor: Colin T. Eisler

Christine Hunnikin Smith , The Baptisery of Pisa. Advisor: Marvin L. Trachtenberg

Marie Spiro , Critical Corpus of the Mosaic Pavements of the Greek Mainland, Fourth/Sixth Centuries with Architectural Surveys. Advisors: Irving Lavin and Marvin L. Trachtenberg

Walter Widrig , The Two Churches at Latrum Within the Context of Cyrenaican Church Forms. Advisor: Peter von Blanckenhagen

1974

William Barcham , The Imaginary View Scenes of Antonio Canaletto. Advisor: Donald Posner

Pamela Berger , The Notitia Dignitatum. Advisor: Hugo Buchthal

Thomas Buser , The Pietà in Spain. Advisor: José López-Rey

Judith Colton , Monuments to Men of Genius: A Study of Eighteenth-century English and French Sculptural Works. Advisor: H. W. Janson

Wanda M. Corn , Andrew Wyeth: The Man, his Art, and his Audience. Advisor: H. W. Janson

Eugene J. Dwyer , Pompeian Sculpture in its Domestic Context. A Study of Five Pompeian Houses and their Contents. Advisor: Peter von Blanckenhagen

Madeline A. Fidell , The Graphic Art of Charles-François Daubigny. Advisor: Gert Schiff

Eunice Mylonas Hale , Charles Demuth: His Study of the Figure. Advisor: Robert Goldwater

Alexandra Herz , The Sixtine and Pauline Tombs Sta. Maria Maggiore: an Iconographical Study. Advisor: Irving Lavin

Jim M. Jordan , Paul Klee and Cubism, 1912-1926. Advisor: Gert Schiff

Annette L. Juliano , Teng-Hsien: An Important Six Dynasties Tomb. Advisor: Alexander Soper

Peter Kinney , The Early Sculpture of Barolomeo Ammanati. Advisor: Olga Raggio

Roger Lipsey , Signature and Significance: A Study of the Life and Writings of Ananda K. Coomaraswamy. Advisor: Stella Kramrisch

Deborah Lipton , Francesco Squarcione. Advisor: Colin T. Eisler

Debra Pincus , The Arco Foscari, the Building of a Triumphal Gateway in Fifteenth-century Venice. Advisor: H.W. Janson

William Laurens Pressly , The Life and Art of James Barry. Advisor: Robert Rosenblum

Daniel Robbins , The Formation and Maturity of Albert Gleizes. Advisor: Craig Hugh Smyth

Sharon Off Dunlap Smith , Illustration of Raoul de Praelle’s Translation of St. Augustine’s City of God Between 1375 and 1420. Advisor: Craig Hugh Smyth

Harvey Stahl , The Iconographic Sources of the Old Testament Miniatures, Pierpont Morgan Library, M638. Advisors: Hugo Buchthal and Robert Goldwater

Richard Stapleford , The Excavation of the Early Christian Martyr’s Complex of Sinforsa near Rome. Advisor: Richard Krautheimer

Orestes H. Zervos , The Alexander Mint of Egypt. Advisor: Margaret Thompson and Richard Krautheimer

Norman D. Ziff , Paul Delaroche: A Study in Nineteenth-century French History Painting. Advisor: Robert Rosenblum

1973

Ellen N. Davis , The Vapheio Cups and Aegean Gold and Silver Ware. Advisor: Günter H. Kopcke

Esther Gordon Dotson , Shakespeare Illustrated. Advisor: Walter Friedländer

William Steven Feldman , The Life and Work of Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848-1884). Advisor: José López-Rey

John J. Herrmann Jr. , The Schematic Composite Capital: A Study of Architectural Decoration at Rome in the Later Empire. Advisors: Richard Krautheimer and Peter von Blanckenhagen

Patricia Schulze Hills , The Genre Painting of Eastman Johnson: The Sources and Development of his Style and Themes. Advisor: Robert Goldwater

John M. Hunisak , The Sculptor Jules Dalou: Studies in his Style and Imagery. Advisor: H. W. Janson

Sharon Jones , French Gothic Influence on North Italian Sculpture in the First Half of the Thirteenth Century: A Study of the Abbey of Vezzolano, S. Giustina in Padua, and the Duomo of Vercelli. Advisor: H. W. Janson

Donald D. Keyes , Aspects of the Development of Genre Painting in the Hudson River Area before 1852. Advisor: Robert Goldwater

Marilyn Lavin , Studies in Urbinate Painting, 1458-1476, Piero della Francesca, Paolo Uccello and Joos van Ghent. Advisor: Craig Hugh Smyth

Ronald Malmstrom , S. Maria in Aracoeli at Rome. Advisor: Richard Krautheimer

Patricia Carroll Mandel , Homer Dodge Martin: American Landscape Painter. Advisor: Robert Goldwater

Donald Frederick McCallum , The Evolution of the Buddha and Bodhisattva Figures in Japanese Sculpture of the Ninth and Tenth Centuries. Advisor: Alexander Soper

Jerry D. Meyer , The Religious Paintings of Benjamin West; a Study in Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-century Moral Sentiment. Advisor: Robert Rosenblum

Mary B. Moore , Horses on Black-figure Greek Vases of the Archaic Period: Ca. 620-480 B.C. Advisor: Dietrich von Bothmer

James Morganstern , The Byzantine Church at Dereagzi. Advisor: Richard Krautheimer

Roald Nasgaard , Willumsen and Symbolist Art 1888-1910. Advisor: Robert Goldwater

Suzanne Meek Pelzel , Perforated Sumerian Votive Plaques. Advisor: Donald P. Hansen

Eleanor G. Sims , The Garrett Manuscript of the Zafar-Name: A Study in Fifteenth-century Timurid Patronage. Advisor: Richard Ettinghausen

Patricia Waddy , Palazzo Barbarini: Early Proposals. Advisor: Irving Lavin

Barry Wind , Studies in Genre Painting: 1580-1630. Advisor: Donald Posner

Eric M. Zafran , The Iconography of Anti-Semitism: A Study of the Representation of the Jews in the Visual Arts of Europe, 1400-1600. Advisor: Colin T. Eisler

1972

Jo Anne Gitlin Bernstein , The Architectural Sculpture of the Cloisters of the Certosa di Pavia. Advisor: H. W. Janson

Tseng Yu-Ho Ecke , Emperor Hui Tsung, the Artist, 1082-1136. Advisor: Alexander Soper

Helena Mary Fong , Secular Figure Painting of the T’ang Dynasty, A.D. 618-906. Advisor: Alexander Soper

Susan Joan Koslow , The Chevrot Altarpiece: Its Sources, Meaning and Significance. Advisors: Colin T. Eisler and Richard Krautheimer

Ralph E. Liberman , The Church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli in Venice. Advisor: Richard Krautheimer

Maybelle Mann , Francis William Edmonds: Mammon and Art. Advisor: Robert Goldwater

William Silas Talbot , Jasper F. Cropsey, 1823-1900. Advisor: Robert Goldwater

Richard J. Wattenkamer , The Art of William Glackens. Advisor: Robert Goldwater

Toby E. S Yuen , Illusionistic Mural Decoration of the Early Renaissance in Rome. Advisor: Craig Hugh Smyth

1971

Inabelle Levin , The Quedlinburg Itala Fragment. Advisor: Hugo Buchthal

Christine Lilyquist , Ancient Egyptian Mirrors from the Earliest Times through the Middle Kingdom. Advisor: Henry G. Fischer

Gerald Needham , The Paintings of Claude Monet, 1859-1878. Advisor: Robert Goldwater

Francis Lee Richardson , Andrea Schiavone. Advisor: Craigh Hugh Smyth

Priscilla Parsons Soucek , Illustrated Manuscripts of Nizami’s Khamseh: 1386-1482. Advisor: Richard Ettinghausen

Eleanor M. Tufts , A Stylistic Study of the Painting of Luis Melendez. Advisor: José López-Rey

1970

Roy Asbjörn Boe , Edvard Munch: His Life and Work from 1880-1920. Advisor: H. W. Janson

Ellen Callmann , Apollonio di Giovanni.

Frank R. Di Federico , Studies in the Art of Francesco Trevisani: A Contribution to the History of Roman Painting, 1675-1750. Advisor: Donald Posner

Eugene J. Johnson , S. Andrea in Mantua. Advisor: Richard Krautheimer

Thomas Francis Mathews , The Early Churches of Constantinople: Architecture and Liturgy. Advisor: Richard Krautheimer

Penelope Mason Scull , A Reconstruction of the Hogen Heiji Monogatari Emaki. Advisor: Alexander Soper

Lauren Soth , The Mature Correggio: Studies in the Iconography and Chronology of the Later Paintings. Advisor: Erwin Panofsky

Thomas B. Stevenson , The Miniatures of the Vatican Virgil. Advisor: Hugo Buchthal

Brooks W. Stoddard , The Sculpture from the Abbey St.-Pierre at Airvault (Deux-Sevres). Advisor: Harry Bober