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What Defined Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild’s Tastes in Art at Waddesdon Manor?

Daisy Soames
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2015
BA

Subject: Architecture, Painting, Furniture
Country: Britain
Century: 18th Century

10,000 words

Kate Cranston - The New Woman, the New Art and the Making of Modernity

Alannah Sparks
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2007
BA

Subject: Architecture, design
Country: Scotland
Period: 19th Century

10,000 words

This dissertation seeks to reevaluate the importance of Catherine Cranston, using a critical framework informed by feminist art criticism. Catherine Cranston, the author argues, is now mainly noted for her patronage of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, rather than for her own significant achievements in art and design. This study examines her innovative aesthetic vision for the Glasgow tea rooms in the light of the development of modernist values in both feminist and socio-aesthetic terms. The latter part of this work explores her contribution to a new form of ‘feminine’ art and connoisseurship, and reviews her patronage in a still broader context, presenting the idea of the tea rooms as a physical expression of contemporary European artistic thought. The final section examines Cranston’s promotion of the Glasgow school and style.

On the Representation of Modern Irish Art - a Comparative Study of Public and Corporate Collection Policy

Anna Spearman
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1992
BA

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

10,000 words

Marginality and liminality in the Iconography of the Physically Impaired Figure in the Holkham Bible Picture Book, BL Add MS 47682

Aoife Stables
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2020
BA

Subject: Manuscripts
Country: England
Period: 14th Century

10,000 words

Two Franciscan friaries in County Mayo

Geraldine Staunton
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1984
BA

Subject: Architecure
Country: Ireland
Period: 15th Century

10,000 words

Grotesque Femininity Sarah Lucas: Stretching the Boundaries of Feminism

Roisin Dorothy Aoife Stimpson
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2004
BA

Subject: Sculpture
Country: Britain
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

This dissertation is an exploration of the influence of Feminism in the works of the contmeporary British artist Sarah Lucas. The author links her work to Surrealist art discources and practices of the 1930s. The dissertation examines the trends in British art since the 1980s and discusses shock factor of Post-Modern art. The author asserts that this is not the primary intention of Lucas. Lucas’ sculpture and installation work is discussed, her love of ‘anti-beauty’ and the implications of a misogynistic woman. The dissertation then dabates Lucas’ position as a feminist artist, and analyses Two Fried Eggs and a Kebab in terms of its Feminist properties and iconic types. The final chapter discusses Lucas’ eye for the grotesque and its implications in feminist art. The author finally asserts that Lucas is Post-Feminist rather than Feminist.

The Walsingham Priory Bible

Janette Stokes
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1995
BA

Subject: Manuscript
Country: England
Period: 12th Century

10,000 words

From Private Residence to Public Museum: the Restoration and Adaptation of the Parisian Hotel. The Hotel Sale as the Musee Picasso and the Hotel de Saint-Aignan as the Musee d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaisme

Caroline Stone
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2006
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: France
Period: 17th and 20th Century

10,000 words

This dissertation investigates the conversion of Parisian hotels to the role of public museums, considering how this task was approached in the late twentieth century conversions of two contemporary hotels: the Hotel Sale, today home to the Musee Picasso, and the Hotel de Saint-Aignan, now housing the Musee d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaisme. The author considers the challenging and often conflicting needs of conservation and presentation of the collection that must be met with the integrity of the historic hotel in mind. The study examines in what manner the restoration of the hotel’s original fabric impacts upon the display of the museum’s collection, the question of spatial logic in the context of the hotel’s former spatial usages, and a discussion of the various modern installations required and how these relate to our appreciation of both the existing building and the collection.

Forgery

Siobhan Strahan
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2000
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: The International Art Market
Period: Non Specific

10,000 words

John the Painter

Kate Strain
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2005
BA

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

10,000 words

This dissertation explores the art of John the Painter who, as a long-term patient in a psychiatric hospital, differs greatly from the self-propelled mainstream artist. Chapter one analyses John's work with reference to particular paintings and discusses John's motivation to paint and the difficulties of interpretation his work presents. Chapter two outlines John's working environment and describes the role of Cork Community Art Link as a catalyst to his art. It reviews John's place in the Irish art world with reference to Outsider Art and community arts. Chapter three discusses the issues surrounding the exhibition of John's work at IMMA. Interviews with the curators of the exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art are included as are an interview with his artistic mentor, a selection of newspaper reviews and a table of John's exhibitions to date.

National Identity in Contemporary Irish art

Isolda Sweeney
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1992
BA

Subject: Art
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

A study of the work of Robert Ballagh, 1967-1985

Rebecca Sweetnam
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1985
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

Outsider Art and Art Brut

Christopher Swift
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2000
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: International
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

Paul Seawright: Unseen Sights

Alex Synge
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2006
BA

Subject: Photography
Country: Ireland / Northern Ireland / Afghanistan / Africa.
Period: 20th and 21st Century

10,000 words

Ligier Richier’s ‘Sepulcre’ at St. Mihiel

John Joachim Taylor
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1988
BA

Subject: Funerary Monuments
Country: France
Period: 16th Century

10,000 words

Aspects of Malahide Castle

Lisa Elizabeth Taylor
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1989
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 12th – 15th Century

10,000 words

Fit for a King? An Account of the Dispute that Occurred Between Viscount Robert Edward King and his Architect, John Nash in the Building of the ‘Magnificent Mansion’ at Rockingham, Co. Roscommon

Louise Taylor
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2005
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 19th Century

10,000 words

May Guinness 1835-1955

Ronan Teevan
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1987
BA

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

10,000 words

The Painter and his Muse. The Artist-Model Relationship in Dublin at the turn of the century, as exemplified by the work of William Orpen A.R.A, R.H.A

Joyce Teevan
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1992
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Ireland, France and England
Period: 19th and 20th Century

10,000 words

Art Therapy: a New Role for Art and How Well it Works

Aoibheann Tennyson
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1993
BA

Subject: Art theory
Country: General
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

Visualising Identities: Memory and Memorial Production in Modern Ireland

Kathleen Terres
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2014
BA

Subject: Architecture and Sculpture
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th and 21st Century

10,000 words

The Irish Easter Rising (1916) was a transformative political and cultural moment in modern Irish history. Memory of this event and its architects has been actively employed by Irish governments with the aims of asserting a Nationalist identity. Public statuary and memorial gardens commemorating the rebellion are the central focus of this dissertation. Ideological ‘conflicting’ memorials and iconoclastic acts offer broader contextualisation. Examination of the contained ideologies and public receptions of memorials are useful tools for analysing and developing cultural consciousness and identities. This critical enquiry seeks to map constructs of identity through memorial production in Ireland, while the conclusion offers questions for further scholarship in light of the forthcoming centenary of the Rising.

The Anatomy of Michelangelo: Sometimes Right, Sometimes Wrong, Always Divine

Karl Thomas
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2010
BA

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

10,000 words

How Promotion of Resident Irish Artists Created the Genius of a Sculptor: A Study of the life and works of Sir Thomas Farrell

Lauren Thomas
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2019
BA

Subject: Sculpture
Country: Ireland
Period: 19th Century

10,000 words

The nineteenth-century experienced real improvements in the status of the arts in Ireland. In the world of sculpture, the demand for the promotion of Irish resident artist was especially debated following Sir John Henry Foley’s acceptance of the commission of the O’ Connell monument in the 1860s. Over the latter half of the nineteenth century, a rise in nationalism also saw a greater demand for Irish resident artists. The focus of this thesis, Sir Thomas Farrell (1829-1900), is remembered today as a classical sculptor of the nineteenth-century, whose works of portraiture exist as landmarks of Ireland’s capital, dotting the streets of Dublin from Glasnevin to Rathdown. Born into a workshop of Catholic sculptors, Farrell was soon noted for his talents, attended the Royal Modelling School and quickly gained commissions that occupied his long working life.

Thomas Cooley and the Royal Exchange

Ruth Thorpe
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2001
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 18th Century

10,000 words

This dissertation examines the background of Thomas Cooley, the architect of the Royal Exchange in Dublin. This study traces his early life and career in London and identifies what his architectural experience was before he won the competition to design the Royal Exchange. With reference to the architecture of the Exchange, Cooley's inspiration and sources of influence are explored and the author also discusses the controversy surrounding the competition for the Exchange. An introductory chapter introduces the building to the reader and the following issues. The following chapters explore Cooley's background and how this influenced his design for the exchange. The final chapter on the intrigue surrounding the competition, provides a useful insight into eighteenth century Dublin architecture and society.

Education Theses Register —B.A.

What Defined Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild’s Tastes in Art at Waddesdon Manor?

Kate Cranston - The New Woman, the New Art and the Making of Modernity

On the Representation of Modern Irish Art - a Comparative Study of Public and Corporate Collection Policy

Marginality and liminality in the Iconography of the Physically Impaired Figure in the Holkham Bible Picture Book, BL Add MS 47682

Two Franciscan friaries in County Mayo

Grotesque Femininity Sarah Lucas: Stretching the Boundaries of Feminism

The Walsingham Priory Bible

From Private Residence to Public Museum: the Restoration and Adaptation of the Parisian Hotel. The Hotel Sale as the Musee Picasso and the Hotel de Saint-Aignan as the Musee d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaisme

Forgery

John the Painter

National Identity in Contemporary Irish art

A study of the work of Robert Ballagh, 1967-1985

Outsider Art and Art Brut

Paul Seawright: Unseen Sights

Ligier Richier’s ‘Sepulcre’ at St. Mihiel

Aspects of Malahide Castle

Fit for a King? An Account of the Dispute that Occurred Between Viscount Robert Edward King and his Architect, John Nash in the Building of the ‘Magnificent Mansion’ at Rockingham, Co. Roscommon

May Guinness 1835-1955

The Painter and his Muse. The Artist-Model Relationship in Dublin at the turn of the century, as exemplified by the work of William Orpen A.R.A, R.H.A

Art Therapy: a New Role for Art and How Well it Works

Visualising Identities: Memory and Memorial Production in Modern Ireland

The Anatomy of Michelangelo: Sometimes Right, Sometimes Wrong, Always Divine

How Promotion of Resident Irish Artists Created the Genius of a Sculptor: A Study of the life and works of Sir Thomas Farrell

Thomas Cooley and the Royal Exchange

Education Theses Register —
B.A.