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Wooden Treasure: Russian Timber Building and the Klet Type Church

Anna Playskina
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2010
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Russia
Period: Various

10,000 words

This dissertation examines timber as building material, how it was used in Russian churches of the klet type, and their mutual relationship. The klet type was the first architectural style of Eastern Orthodox Russia, and is characterised by a simple rectangular, tripartite plan. This dissertation will argue that the elements of the klet type construction display a deep knowledge and understanding of the natural properties and qualities of timber. This study will also attempt to show that in some cases, it is the properties of timber that determine architectural elements of the church. This plays a vital role in the overall form of the klet churches. The main example used to display the point is the Church of the Deposition of the Robe from the village of Borodava, which despite being the earliest surviving example of the klet type churches, demonstrates a mastery and skill in timber construction unmatched in its time.

Automobile Design up to 1960

Stephen Plunkett
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1982
BA

Subject: Industrial design: automobile
Country:Various
Period: 19th and 20th Century

10,000 words

Studies in Sam Stephenson: An analysis of designs for the ESB (1965) And Central Bank (1978) in tandem with their public response

Alison Potterton
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2022
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th century

10,000 words

L’Arte Sacra and Aeropittura: Spirituality and Technology as seen in the Second Generation of Futurism

Emma Poulton
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2010
BA

Subject: Painting, Photography and Prints
Country: Italy
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

Max Brödel: How He Became the Most Prolific Innovator of Modern Neuroanatomical Illustrations During the Turn of the 19th Century

Molly Power
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2023
BA

Subject: Illustration
Country: Germany
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis Lithuanian Symbolist in the European Context

Milda Prasmutaite
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2013
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Lithuania
Period: 20st Century

10,000 words

The Relationship between the Religion and the Frescoes of the Ancient Therans

Amanda Pratt
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1985
BA

Subject: Fresco
Country: Santorini
Period: Up to 1500 BC

10,000 words

Edgar Degas: The Role of the Female

Martina Preston
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2011
BA

Subject: Drawing, Painting and Prints
Country: France
Period: 19th Century

10,000 words

Making Pictures A Theoretical Study of Simon Starling’s Pictures for an Exhibition (2014)

Benjamin Price
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2016
BA

Subject: Painting, Installation, Sculpture and Photography
Country: America
Century: 21st Century

10,000 words

Obelisks: From sacred symbols to monuments of triumph and commemoration (An analysis of obelisk appropriation and its transitory meaning)

Brigid Purcell

Trinity College Dublin

Department of History of Art and Architecture

2012

BA

Subject: Sculpture

Country: Egypt, Ireland and Italy

Period: Antiquity to 20th Century

Egle Rake (Rakauskaite) A Lithuanian Case Study of Art in the Globalisation Age

Gabiia Purlyte
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2014
BA

Subject: Video art, Performance, Installation and Media
Country: Lithuania
Period: 21st Century

10,000 words

This dissertation presents the work of contemporary Lithuanian artist

Egle Rake (Rakauskaite) in the context of globalisation. Rake’s work is exemplary of Lithuanian art of the last twenty years which exhibited dramatic changes since the breakup of the Soviet Union. In opposition to the conservative, essentially modernist conception of art held by their immediate predecessors, the generation of emerging artists embraced previously unseen media such as performance, installation and video art. They also engaged closely with the current issues in their society. Using Rake’s oeuvre as a case study, the aim is to show that contemporary art cannot be adequately understood without taking into account both the local and global contexts. The phenomenon of globalisation itself can only be examined from particular, situated perspectives.

The “Paragone” of Painting and Sculpture and the Relation of Art Theory and Practice in Benedetto Varchi’s Survey among Florentine Artists in 1547

Antonia Putzger
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2006
BA

Subject: Painting and Sculpture
Country: Italy
Period: 16th Century

10,000 words

This dissertation examines the letters written by eight painters and sculptors in response to Florentine intellectual Benedetto Varchi’s 1547 challenge to argue “which is the nobler art, painting or sculpture” . The opinions and concepts contained within these letters are considered within the context of each artist’s own artistic endeavours; Michaelangelo, Francesco da Sangallo and Benvenuto Cellini are among those studied. The author deals with the Florentine cultural and intellectual context of the debate and aims to establish a connection between artistic theory and practice in the case of the “paragone” to clarify that it was not just a theoretical exercise thought up by courtly intellects. The study also follows the development of the concept of “disegno” and the changing attitudes to the processes of sculpture and the tasks of painting.

Dance and Primitivism in the Work of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Barbara Pycinska-Taylor
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2009
BA

Subject: Painting, Prints, Sculpture
Country: France, Germany
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

The figural capitals from the monastery of St. Michel de Cuxa, now at the Cloisters Museum, New York

Anna Margaret Conerney Pyle
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1987
BA

Subject: Sculpture
Country: France
Period: 12th Century

10,000 words

Representations of Parturition (Pregnancy) in Northern Art

Alison Quaid
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1998
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Northern Europe
Period: 15th and 16th Century

10,000 words

Experiments in Modern Irish Domestic Architecture

Gillian Frances Quigley
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2004
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

Michael Coleman, A Study of his painting 1977-2002

Ruairi Quinn
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2002
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th and 21st Century

10,000 words

The Symbolist Use of Synthetism and Line in Portraying the Late Nineteenth Century Male’s Vision of the Female, a Comparative Study.

Sorcha Niamh Quinn
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2010
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: England, France and Norway
Period: 19th Century

10,000 words

This dissertation is first of all a study of the negative perception of women amongst intellectuals, particularly in France, at the end of the nineteenth century. This feeling of negativity resulted in a fashion in portraying female stereotypes in the visual arts. This applied to the portrayal of the femme fatale or polar opposite depictions of women as ideal and docile. Secondly, this dissertation is an attempt to come to terms with the Symbolist movement. The Symbolists were the artists who interpreted women in this manner.Thirdly, this study is an examination of certain stylistic techniques which were particularly effective in portraying the symbolist concept of externalising the inner realm. This is exemplified by the work of artists such as Paul Gauguin, Odilon Redon and Edward Munch.

Public, Political Art and Social Change in Ireland – 1966- Present Day

Roise Quinn
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2023
BA

Subject: Political Art
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th & 21st Century

10,000 words

‘There are no women of genius; the women of genius are men.’ A study of genius and gender in the careers of Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner.

Alice Quinn Banville
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2018
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: USA
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

Sinners of the Seventeenth Century: Exploring Morality in the Genre Art of the Utrecht Caravaggisti

Joanna Quitly
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2017
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Holland
Period: 17th Century

10,000 words

This dissertation aims to investigate and uncover underlying moralising messages in the secular art of the Utrecht Caravaggisti, a group of Dutch artists originating from Utrecht who adopted the style of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. The argument will be focused on the work of three artists within this group who are Gerrit van Honthorst, Hendrick ter Brugghen and Dirck van Baburen. Each of these artists travelled to Rome in the first decade of the seventeenth century and remained there for several years. This allowed them to experience the artistic landscape and atmosphere of Italy. Upon their return to Utrecht, they began creating genre art in the the style of Caravaggio featuring half-length figures close to the picture plane wearing contemporary dress and painted with a tenebrist quality.

The Concept of the artwork as an Extension of the Self

Sue Rainsford
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2011
BA

Subject: Photography
Country: Various
Period: 21th Century

10,000 words

The Thirteenth Century Sculptural Heads of Cashel Cathedral

Karen Ralph
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2008
BA

Subject: Sculpture
Country: Ireland
Period: 13th Century

10,000 words

A discussion of Gothic sculpture tends to revolve around those great French undertakings in Rheims or Chartres or English works visible in Wells and Salisbury; however such analysis leads to the unfair marginalisation of the craft of Irish masons during the Gothic era. Irish work may be observed in various sites around Ireland; early examples of which are found particularly in Munster in and around the Tipperary and Kilkenny area. While Irish work might be considered less sophisticated than its counterparts abroad, this does not justify the tendency of scholarship to largely ignore the topic. The aim of this thesis is therefore to begin to redress this injustice. This dissertation constitutes an analysis of the carved corbel heads in the thirteenth century choir of St. Patrick’s Cathedral on the Rock of Cashel, Co. Tipperary.

The Architect’s Contribution to Public Sector Housing in Dublin city prior to 1940: Some Attitudes and Influences

Alice Rapple
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1986
BA

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

10,000 words

Education Theses Register —B.A.

Wooden Treasure: Russian Timber Building and the Klet Type Church

Automobile Design up to 1960

Studies in Sam Stephenson: An analysis of designs for the ESB (1965) And Central Bank (1978) in tandem with their public response

L’Arte Sacra and Aeropittura: Spirituality and Technology as seen in the Second Generation of Futurism

Max Brödel: How He Became the Most Prolific Innovator of Modern Neuroanatomical Illustrations During the Turn of the 19th Century

Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis Lithuanian Symbolist in the European Context

The Relationship between the Religion and the Frescoes of the Ancient Therans

Edgar Degas: The Role of the Female

Making Pictures A Theoretical Study of Simon Starling’s Pictures for an Exhibition (2014)

Obelisks: From sacred symbols to monuments of triumph and commemoration (An analysis of obelisk appropriation and its transitory meaning)

Egle Rake (Rakauskaite) A Lithuanian Case Study of Art in the Globalisation Age

The “Paragone” of Painting and Sculpture and the Relation of Art Theory and Practice in Benedetto Varchi’s Survey among Florentine Artists in 1547

Dance and Primitivism in the Work of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

The figural capitals from the monastery of St. Michel de Cuxa, now at the Cloisters Museum, New York

Representations of Parturition (Pregnancy) in Northern Art

Experiments in Modern Irish Domestic Architecture

Michael Coleman, A Study of his painting 1977-2002

The Symbolist Use of Synthetism and Line in Portraying the Late Nineteenth Century Male’s Vision of the Female, a Comparative Study.

Public, Political Art and Social Change in Ireland – 1966- Present Day

‘There are no women of genius; the women of genius are men.’ A study of genius and gender in the careers of Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner.

Sinners of the Seventeenth Century: Exploring Morality in the Genre Art of the Utrecht Caravaggisti

The Concept of the artwork as an Extension of the Self

The Thirteenth Century Sculptural Heads of Cashel Cathedral

The Architect’s Contribution to Public Sector Housing in Dublin city prior to 1940: Some Attitudes and Influences

Education Theses Register —
B.A.