The Institute of Fine Arts Dissertations
1999
Lisa Brody
, The Iconography and Cult of the Aphrodite of Aphrodisias. Advisor: Christopher Ratté
Stephanie Carroll
, Painting and Theater in France During the Eighteenth Century. Advisor: Robert
Rosenblum
Aruna D’Souza
, Cezanne’s Bathers: Biography and the Erotics of Paint. Advisor: Linda Nochlin
David Benjamin
, Relations of Painting and Writing in Fifteenth-Century Siena. Advisor: Jonathan J.
G. Alexander
Desiree Koslin
, The Dress of Monastic and Religious Women As Seen in Art From the Early Middle Ages
to the Reformation. Advisor: Jonathan J. G. Alexander
Gerrit Lansing
, ‘A Neurotic Mirror’: the Painting of O. Louis Gugliemi, 1932?1943.
Advisor: Robert S. Lubar
Sarah Lees
, Representing the Commune of 1871: the Depiction of Contemporary History in the Early
Third Republic. Advisor: Linda Nochlin
Julia Lenaghan
, Portrait Statues of Women in the Roman World. Advisor: R. R. R. Smith
Cecelia Levin
, The Ramayana of Loro Jonggrang: indian Antecedents and Javanese Impetus. Advisor:
Jonathan Hay
Candace Lewis
, Pottery Towers of Han Dynasty China. Advisor: Jonathan Hay
Margot McIwain Nishimura
, The Gorleston Psalter: A Study of the Marginal in the Visual Culture of
Fourteenth-Century England. Advisor: Jonathan J. G. Alexander
Elisabeth Mikosch
, Court Dress and Ceremony in the Age of the Baroque, the Royal/Imperial Wedding of
1719 in Dresden. Advisor: Donald Posner
Andrei Molotiu
, Allegories of Love in the Late Work of Jean?Honore Fragonard. Advisor: Donald Posner
Jason Rosenfeld
, New Languages of Nature in Victorian England: the Pre-Raphaelite Landscape, Natural
History and Modern Architecture in the 1850’s. Advisor: Linda Nochlin
Paul Stanwick
, Egyptian Royal Sculptures of the Ptolemaic Period. Advisor: David O’Connor
Julie Van Voorhis
, The Sculptors’s Workship at Aphrodisias. Advisor: R. R. R. Smith
Jacob Wisse
, Official city painters in Brabant, 1400-1500: A Documentary and Interpretative
Approach. Advisors: Colin T. Eisler and Olga Raggio
1998
Mary Brantl
, Agency Studies: Art and Diplomacy in the Northern European Protestant Courts of the
Early 17th c. Potraiture. Advisor: Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann
Marietta Cambareri
, Ippolito Scalza and the 16th c. Renovation Projects at Orvieto Cathedral. Advisor:
Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt
Susan Earle
, Puvis de Chavannes and America: His Artistic and Critical Reception 1875-1920.
Advisor: Robert Rosenblum
Erica Ehrenberg
, Retrieving Late Babylonian Art: The Seal Impressions from the Eanna Archive at Uruk.
Advisor: Donald P. Hansen
Emilie Gordenker
, Careless Romance: Van Dyck and Cotume in 17th c. Portraiture. Advisor: Egbert
Haverkamp-Begemann
Ethelyn Adina Gordon
, The Sculpture of Frederick William MacMonnies: A Critical Catalog. Advisor: Robert
Rosenblum
Gerald Guest
, Queens, Kings and Clergy Figures of Authority in the 13th c. Moralized Bible.
Advisor: Jonathan J. G. Alexander
Erik Inglis
, Jean Fouquet as a Painter of National History. Advisor: Jonathan J. G. Alexander
Bernice Jones
, Minoan Women’s Clothes: An Investigation of their Construction for the
Depictions in Art. Advisor: Günter H. Kopcke
Steven Platzman
, Imagining the Artist: Cézanne and the Rhetoric of the Self-Portraits. Advisor: Linda
Nochlin
Margaret Richter
, Gabriel Max: the artist, the Darwinist and the spiritualist. Advisor: Robert
Rosenblum
Lydia du Pont Thompson
, The Yi’nan Tomb: Narrative and the Ritual in Pictorial Art of the Eastern Han
(25-220 C.E.). Advisor: Jonathan Hay
Louisa Elena Alcala
, The Jesuits and the visual arts in New Spain, 1670-1767. Advisor: Jonathan Brown
Jane Rachel Becker
, Only one art: The interaction of painting and sculpture in the work of Medardo
Rosso, Auguste Rodin, and Eugene Carriere, 1884-1906. Advisor: Linda Nochlin
Kim Teresa De Beaumont
, Reconsidering Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (1724-1780): The background for his scenes of
Paris. Advisor: Donald Posner
Kathryn Calley Galitz
, The family paradigm in French painting, 1789-1814. Advisor: Robert Rosenblum
Thomas Francis McDonough
, The construction of reserve: Urbanicm and experience in Rousseau’s Paris.
Advisor: Linda Nochlin
Susan Rosenberg
, Brancusi and postwar Paris: Portraiture, primitivism, and patronage in the 1920s.
Advisor: Robert S. Lubar
Kathleen Marie Ryor
, Bright pearls hanging in the marketplace: Self-expression and commodification in the
painting of Xu Wei. Advisor: Jonathan Hay
1997
Michael Amy
, Michelangelo’s Commission for Apostle Statue for the Cathedral of Florence.
Advisor: Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt
Fang-mei Chous
, The Life and Art of Wen Boren (1502-1575). Advisor: Jonathan Hay
Ena Giurescu
, Trecento Family Chapels in Santa Maria Novella and Santa Croce: Architecture,
Patronage and Competition. Advisor: Marvin L. Trachtenberg
Margaret A. Kuntz
, The Cappella Paolina: Before and After Michelangelo. Advisor: Kathleen Weil-Garris
Brandt
Diana Pyle Rowan
, Portable Buddhist Shrines of the Tang Period. Advisor: Jonathan Hay
Andrew Carrington Shelton
, From Making History to a Living Legend: The Mystification of M. Ingres (1834-1855).
Advisor: Robert Rosenblum
Perrin Stein
, Exoticism as Metaphor: Turquerie in Eighteenth-Century French Art. Advisor: Donald
Posner
Anne Umland
, Joan Miró and Collage in the 1920s: The Dialectic of Painting and Anti-Painting.
Advisor: Robert S. Lubar
Gertje R. Utley
, Picasso and the ‘Parti de Renaissance Française’: The Artist as a
Communist, 1944-1953. Advisor: Kirk Varnedoe
Marina Vidas
, Representation and marriage: art, society and gender relations in Florence from the
late fourteenth through the fifteenth century. Advisor: Jonathan J. G. Alexander
Erick Wilderding
, History and Prophecy: Selected Problems in the Religious Paintings of Nicolas
Poussin. Advisor: Donald Posner
Tomoko Masuya
, The Ilkhanid phase of Takht-I Sulaiman. Advisor: Priscilla Soucek
1996
Ariella Budick
, Subject to Scrutiny: Diane Arbus’s American Grotesque. Advisor: Linda Nochlin
Barbara Larson
, Odilon Redon: Science and Fantasy in the Noirs. Advisor: Robert Rosenblum
Laura Morowitz
, Consuming the Past: The Nabis and French Medieval Art. Advisor: Robert S. Lubar
Margaret Oppenheimer
, Women Artists in Paris, 1791-1814. Advisor: Robert Rosenlbum
Elena Quevedo-Chigas
, Early Medieval Iberian Architecture and the Hispanic Liturgy: A Study of the
Development of Church Planning from the Fifth to the Tenth Centuries. Advisor: Thomas
F. Matthews
Suzanna Beatrice Simor
, “I Believe” Images of the Credo, Charlemagne to Luther. Advisor: Colin
T. Eisler
Kathryn Smith
, Canonizing the Apocryphal: London B.L. MS. Egerton 2781 and its Visual, Devotional
and Social Contexts. Advisor: Jonathan J. G. Alexander
Nancy L. Thompson
, Female Portrait Sculpture in the First Century B.C. in Italy and the Hellenistic
East. Advisor: R. R. R. Smith
Mariët Westermann
, The Amusements of Jan Steen: Comic Painting in the Seventeenth Century. Advisor:
Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann
Jenny Wilker
, Daumier’s Histoire ancienne: French Classical Parody in the 1840s. Advisor:
Robert Rosenblum
Louisa Wood Ruby
, The Drawings of Paul Bril: A Study of their Role in 17th Century European Landscape.
Advisor: Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann
1995
Dimitris Cacharelias
, The Mount Athos Esphigmenou 14 Codex: Pagan and Christian Myth in Middle Byzantine
Manuscript Illumination. Advisor: Thomas F. Matthews
Caroline Virginia Walter Goldberg
, Giuseppe de Nittis: An Italian Perspective on the Parisian Cityscape, 1867-1884.
Advisor: Robert Rosenblum
Janet Burnett Grossman
, The Sculptured Funerary Monuments of the Classical Period in the Athenian Agora.
Advisor: Evelyn B. Harrison
Luisa J. Orto
, Design as Art: il Design and Italian National Identity. Advisor: Robert S. Lubar
Olenka Z. Pevny
, The Kyrylivs’ka Tserkva: The Appropriation of Byzantine Art and Architecture
in Kiev. Advisor: Thomas F. Mathews
Rebecca A. Rabinow
, The Legacy of la Rue Férou: Livres d’Artiste Created for Tériade by Rouault,
Bonnard, Matisse, Léger, Le Corbusier, Chagall, Giacometti, and Miró. Advisor: Robert
S. Lubar
Felicity B. Ratté
, Significant Structures: Architectural Imagery in Tuscan Painting of the Thirteenth
and Fourteenth Centuries. Advisor: Marvin L. Trachtenberg
Rona Roisman
, Francesco da Sangallo: The Tombs. Advisor: Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt
Virginia Stotz
, Romanesque Sculpture on the Façade of Notre-Dame, Saintes. Advisor: Jonathan J. G.
Alexander
Carol Foreman Tabler
, The Landscape Paintings of Antoine Vollon (1833-1900): A Catalogue and Analysis.
Advisor: Linda Nochlin
Sussan Babaie
, Sfavid Palaces at Isfahan: Continuity and Change (1590-1666). Advisor: Priscilla
Soucek
Rolf Bagemihl
, Painting and Sculpture in the Diocese of Volterra: A Documentary Investigation
(1300-1400). Advisor: John Pope-Hennessy
Diane Booton
, Pictorial Seasons: A Cultural Study of the Cycle of Calendar Paintings in the Torre
dell’Aquilla. Advisor: Jonathan J. G. Alexander
Suzanne Maureen Burke
, Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s Sala della Pace: Its Historiography and its “sensu
astrologicus.” Advisor: Colin T. Eisler
1994
Layla S. Diba
, Laquerwork of Safavid Persia and its Relationship to Persian Painting. Advisor:
Priscilla Soucek
Stephanie S. Dickey
, Prints, Portraits and Patrons in Rembrandt’s Work Around 1640. Advisor: Egbert
Haverkamp-Begemann
Sheila Dillon
, Studies in the Civic and Intellectual Portraits of the Greeks. Advisor: R. R. R.
Smith
Carrie A. Hamilton
, The Salons of 1699 to 1739: The Academy, the Bâtiments, and the Politics of Display.
Advisor: Donald Posner
Lawrence Jenkens
, The Palazzo Piccolomini in Siena: Pius II’s Architectural Patronage and its
Afterlife. Advisor: Kahtleen Weil-Garris Brandt
Diana Wolfe Larkin
, The Broken-Lintel Doorway of Ancient Egypt and its Decoration. Advisor: Bernard von
Bothmer
Ursula Lee
, The Shadow of Industry: German Painting from Romanticism to Neue Sachlichkeit.
Advisor: Robert Rosenblum
Karl Frederick Schuler
, The Pictorial Program of the Chapterhouse of Sigena. Advisor: Jonathan J. G.
Alexander
William J. Travis
, The Romanesque Sculpture of Montceaux-l’Etoile: Crossroads of Cluny and
Brionnais. Advisor: Thomas F. Mathews
Alexander W. Vergara
, The Presence of Rubens in Spain. Advisor: Jonathan Brown
Stefanie Walker
, The Sculptor Pietro Stefano Monnot in Rome 1695-1713. Advisor: Olga Raggio
Katherine Welch
, Amphitheatres in the Roman Republic: An Archeology of the Roman Spectacle. Advisor:
R. R. R. Smith
1993
Meg Armstrong
, A Thesaurus of Applied Motives of African Red Slip Ware. Advisor: Thomas F. Mathews
Sharon E. J. Gerstel
, Monumental Painting and Eucharistic Sacrifice in the Byzantine Sanctuary: The
Example of Macedonia. Advisor: Thomas F. Mathews
Joseph Low Karmel
, Picasso’s Laboratory: The Role of his Drawings in the Development of Cubism,
1910-1914. Advisor: Kirk Varnedoe
Jennifer M. Kilian
, The Paintings of Karel du Jardin (1626-1678). Advisor: Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann
Patrick Lenaghan
, The Arrival of the Italian Renaissance in Spain: The Tombs by Domenico Fancelli and
Bartolomé Ordóñez. Advisor: Jonathan Brown
Elizabeth P. McGowan
, Votive Columns of the Aegean Islands and the Athenian Acropolis in the Archaic
Period. Advisor: James R. McCredie
Bojana Mojsov
, The Sculpture and Relief of Ramesses III. Advisor: Bernard von Bothmer
Patricia M. Orfanos
, George H. Skidmore, Architect, and Late 19th-century Churches in Suffolk County,
Long Island. Advisor: Marvin L. Trachtenberg
Joan Helen Pachner
, Tony Smith: Architect, Painter, Sculptor. Advisor: Kirk Varnedoe
John Pultz
, Harry Callahan and American Photography, 1938-1990. Advisor: Kirk Varnedoe
Edna R. Russmann
, Relief Decoration in Theban Private Tombs of the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth
Dynasties: Its Origins and Development, With Particular Reference to the Tomb of Harwa
(TT 37). Advisor: Bernard von Bothmer
Shelley E. Zuraw
, The Sculpture of Mino de Fiesole (1429-1484). Advisor: John Pope-Hennessy
1992
Andrew Butterfield
, The Major Sculptures of Andrea der Verrocchio. Advisor: John Pope-Hennessy
Alan Chong
, Aelbert Cuyp and the Meanings of Landscape. Advisor: Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann
Irene Cioffi
, Corrado Giaquinto at the Spanish Court 1753-1762: The Fresco Cycles at the New Royal
Palace in Madrid. Advisor: Jonathan Brown
Andrew J. Clark
, Attic Black-Figured Olpai and Oinochoai. Advisor: Dietrich von Bothmer
Isabelle Dervaux
, Avant-Garde in New York, 1935-1939: The Ten. Advisor: Robert S. Lubar
Ethan Matt Kavaler
, Pieter Breugel and the Common Man: Art and Ideology in Sixteenth-century Antwerp.
Advisor: Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann
Ellen Konowitz
, Dirk Jaobsz. Vellert: A Study of his Stained Glass Windows, Drawings and Prints.
Advisor: Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann
Christopher E. Miele
, The Gothic Revival and Gothic Architecture: The Restoration of Medieval Churches in
Victorian Britain. Advisor: Sarah Bradford Landau
Jonathan Nelson
, The Later Works of Filippino Lippi: From his Roman Sojourn Until his Death (ca.
1489-1504). Advisor: Colin T. Eisler
Nadine Monica Orenstein
, Hendrik Hondius (Duffel 1573-The Hague 1650) and the Business of Prints. Advisor:
Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann
Christopher A. Pfaff
, The Argive Heraion: The Architecture of the Classical Temple of Hera. Advisor: James
R. McCredie
Bert Winther
, Isamu Noguchi: Conflicts of Japanese Culture in the Early Postwar Years. Advisor:
Robert S. Lubar
Stephen R. Zwirn
, Narrative Frames: Temporal Settings for Images of Hercules, Mithras, and Christ.
Advisor: Thomas F. Mathews
1991
Emily Braun
, Mario Sironi: Art and Politivs in Fascist Italy 1919-1945. Advisor: Kirk Varnedoe
Susan Grace Galassi
, Games of Wit: Picasso’s Variations on the Old Masters. Advisor: Gert Schiff
Jocelyn Crane Griffin
, Pointing Gestures in Medieval Miniatures: A Study Based on Illustrated Manuscripts
of the Terence Comedies. Advisor: Jonathan J. G. Alexander
Beth L. Holman
, S. Benedetto Po: Renovation and Reform. Advisors: Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt
Anne-Marie Sankovitch
, The Church of Saint-Eustache in the Early French Renaissance. Advisor: Colin T.
Eisler
Gail E. Solberg
, Taddeo di Bartolo: His Life and Work. Advisor: John Pope-Hennessy
Teh-yu Wang
, The “Rivers and Mountains in Autumn Colors” by Zhao Boju, and Associated
Attributions. Advisor: Jonathan Hay
Jeffrey Steven Weiss
, The Popular Culture of Modern Art: Picasso, Duchamp and Avant-Gardism, c. 1909-17.
Advisor: Kirk Varnedoe
1990
Candace Adelson
, The Tapestry Patronage of Cosimo I de’Medici: 1545-1553. Advisor: Olga Raggio
Ronni Baer
, The Paintings of Gerrit Dou (1613-1675). Advisor: Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann
Barbara Drake Boehm
, Medieval Head Reliquaries of the Massif Central. Advisor: Thomas F. Mathews
Nicola Courtright
, Gregory XIII’s Tower of the Winds in the Vatican. Advisor: Irving Lavin
Magdalena Dabrowski
, The Russian Contribution to Modernism: “Construction” as Realization of
Innovative Aesthetic Concepts of the Russian Avant-Garde. Advisor: Gert Schiff
Holly Edwards
, The Genesis of Islamic Architecture in the Indus Valley. Advisor: Priscilla Soucek
Helen C. Evans
, Manuscript Illumination at the Armenian Patriarchate in Hromlika and the West.
Advisor: Thomas F. Mathews
Roni Feinstein
, Random Order: The First Fifteen Years of Robert Rauschenberg’s Art, 1949-1964.
Advisor: Kirk Varnedoe
John Goodman
, A History of Artistic Practice and the Monarchy’s Crisis of Representation at
the End of the Old Regime. Advisor: Robert Rosenblum
Jane Fox Lloyd
, Settlements, Dwellings, and Painter Pottery: A Contribution to the History of Minoan
Crete in the Early Late Bronze Age. Advisor: Günter H. Kopcke
Alisa Luxenberg
, Léon Bonnat (1833-1922). Advisor: Robert Rosenblum
Lisa Reilly
, The Architectural History of Peterborough Cathedral. Advisor: Marvin L. Trachtenberg
Cathy Santore
, La Bella: The Painted Venetian Beauty in Renaissance Art and Society. Advisor: Colin
T. Eisler
Evanthia Saporiti
, The Pictorial Style in Late Bronze Age Mycenaean Pot Painting. Advisor: Günter H.
Kopcke
Sarah Schroth
, The Private Picture Collection of the Duke of Lerma. Advisor: Jonathan Brown
Caron Smith
, The Fan Kuan Tradition in Chinese Landscape Painting. Advisor: Alexander Soper
Gail Stavitsky
, The Development, Institutionalization and Impact of the A.E. Gallatin Collection of
Modern Art. Advisor: Gert Schiff
Heidi E. Violand
, Jean Tinguely’s Kinetic Art, or a Myth of the Machine Age. Advisor: Gert
Schiff