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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Long Distance Relationship of Ketherina von Knoblauch- Three portraits by Conrad Faber von Creuznach at the National Gallery of Ireland

Amelie Beier
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2013
MA

Subject: German painting
Country: Ireland
Period: 16th Century

Supervisor: Dr John Loughman
15,000 words

The O’Reilly Hall, University College, Dublin - a building with painted parts

Roisin M Berry
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
1997
MA

Subject: Painting
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Dr. Paula Murphy
15,000 words

Passenger Terminal: The Invention of a Building Type. Four Examples of Airport Terminal Design Between 1930 and 1940

Maria Conception
Bibian University College
Dublin School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2010
MA

Subject: Architecture and Design
Country: Spain, Ireland, Germany, and France
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Professor Kathleen James- Chakraborty
15,000 words

Alannah O’Kelly: Irish Performance and Installation Artist

Christine Blessing
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2000
MA

Subject: Performance & Installation Art
Country: Ireland and Dublin
Period: 20th Century

15,000 words

“Gilded Gifts and Political Portrayals: Examining and Decoding the Meeting between Solomon and Sheba in the Italian Renaissance”

Tori Boccarossa
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2023
MA (Minor Thesis)

Subject: Painting/Iconography
Country: Italy
Period: 16th Century

Supervisor: Associate Professor Philip Cottrell
100 pages

Contemporary Irish Portraiture – A survey

Rosemary Boran
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2000
MA

Subject: Painting
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

15,000 words

Rudolph Heltzel: Artist in Jewellery

Sarah Brady
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2006
MA

Subject: Decorative Arts: Silver Jewellery
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th and 21st Century

15,000 words

The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, St Stephen's Green, Dublin: an Architectural History 1805-1997

Colin Brennan
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
1997
MA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 19th and 20th century

Supervisor: Dr Christine Casey
15,000 words

Art Has No Address: the Issue of Ownership and Restitution of Art in the Context of World War II, with Particular Reference to Germany and the USA

Hannah Brogan
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2010
MA

Subject: Miscellaneous
Country: World, Germany, USA
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Professor Kathleen James-Chakraborty
15,000 words

Georgian Houses of the Roebuck Area. Roebuck Hill as a case study

Catherine Brugha
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2013
MA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 19th Century

Supervisor: Dr. Nicola Figgis
15,000 words

Inherited Perspectives

Aoife-Marie Buckley
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2018
MA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Rome and Detroit
Period: 18th Century to 20th Century

Supervisor: Associate Professor Lynda Mulvin
15,000 words