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A Study Comparing and Contrasting the Role of Cartoons and Photographs in the British Press during World War II

Helene Giacomettti
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2004
BA

Subject: Painting and Cartoons
Country: Britain
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

This dissertation offers a comparative study between the photographs and catoons published in the British Press during World War II, that served to inform and educate the British public. The dissertation is divided into three sections, the first deals with images representing events that took place on foreign soil, hugely significant in that the public’s perception and understanding of these events were shaped by these cartoons and pictures. The second part focuses on the images that were published on events that took place within Britain, and the differences between the cartoon, representing the common experience, compared to the photograph, which deals with the individual wartime experience. In the last section images of specific characters, such as Churchill and Hitler are compared, and their power in controlling the images that were released, vital for gaining public support.

The Conservation of Art: Comparative Issues in the Preservation of Manuscripts, Paintings and Sculpture

Molly Giblin
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2017
BA

Subject: Painting, Manuscripts and Sculpture
Country: Ireland, England, Belgium, Germany and France
Period: 15th – 20th Century

10,000 words

This dissertation aims to present and examine the issues facing conservation and measures they take in the effort to conserve our artistic culture. It will present and compare the conservation issues which are universal to manuscripts, paintings and sculpture. Using specific examples to highlight these common themes, projects will be set into the broader framework of conservation history, explaining how it has evolved. The central objective of this dissertation is to explore the importance of environment on an object’s condition, through the various interpretations of ‘environment’ such as climate. housing, or museum practices. It aims to achieve this objective by an assessment of recent projects and various methods, past and present, employed to attempt to preserve artistic culture.

Studies in 18th Century Building History

Arthur Gibney
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1998
PhD

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 18th Century

Supervisor: Dr. Edward McParland
Approx. 60,000 - 80,000 words

Portraits, Politics and Pulchritude, The Court of Agnolo Bronzino

Katie Gibson
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2017
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Italy
Period: 16th Century

10,000 words

The purpose of this dissertation is to analyse the portraits of Cosimo I de’ Medici, his wife Eleonora of Toledo and their children. These portraits were painted between 1540 and the early 1560s by the Medici court artist Agnolo Bronzino and members of his workshop. These family portraits will be examined individually and a group in order to show that Bronzino had an innate quality for linking images through subtle techniques including, expression, dress and symbols. Through the examination of these portraits we will see how each painting contributed to an idyllic construction of the Medici family image, with a political agenda at the heart of the purpose they served. This thesis also aims to highlight Bronzino’s outstanding skill as an artist and making one of the finest portraitists to come out of the Italian Renaissance.

The Depiction of the Victim and the Hero in the Work of Ilya Repin and Vasily Surikov

Marianne Gill
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1994
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Russia
Period: 19th Century

10,000 words

Five Bronze Crucifixes in the Hunt Museum Limerick

Daoirdre Aine Gillanders
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2003
BA

Subject: Sculpture
Country: Western Europe
Period: 12th Century

10,000 words

Medieval Tomb Canopies in Ireland

Frances Gillespie
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1982
BA

Subject: Funerary monuments
Country: Ireland
Period: 15th and 16th Century

10,000 words

The Development of the Modernist Movement in Ireland 1920-1950: A Study of An Informal Women’s Network

Sarah Gillespie
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2012
MPhil (Irish Art History)

Subject: Art
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Dr Yvonne Scott
20,000

The Faddan More Psalter

John Gillis
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2020
PhD

Subject: Medieval Manuscripts
Period: 9th Century

Supervisor: Dr Laura Cleaver
Approx. 60,000 - 80,000 words

“Dublin Art-itecture”. The New, The Converted, and The Extended Art Gallery Space. 1960 - 1996

Catherine Giltrap
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1996
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

Richard Castle and his Approach to Interior Decoration with Particular Reference to Hazelwood, Co. Sligo

Hannah Glass
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2018
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 18th Century

10,000 words

This dissertation is an historical and visual analysis of Richard Castle’s background and his approach to interior design and decoration in eighteenth century Ireland. New light is given to Castle’s background through the examination of both primary and secondary sources. This was achieved through the investigation of genealogical resources primarily relating to his immediate family, including his two brothers and his wife’s family, the Truffets who were a prominent family of the linen industry during this time. Secondly, the family connnections of three of Richard Castle’s early Irish patrons were uncovered and documented. Castle’s elevational features and decorative repertoire is assessed and evaluated in order to give an understanding of his style and influence. This is done by analysing a selection of houses built by Castle.

The Significance of Studs in Insular Art, 7th to 12th Centuries

Jennifer Gleeson
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2017
PhD

Subject: Metalwork
Country: Ireland
Period: 7th Century and 12th Century

Supervisor: Rachel Moss
Approx. 60,000 - 80,000 words

The Significance of Glass Stud Gems in Insular Metalwork, 7th-9th century

Jennifer Gleeson
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2006
MPhil (Irish Art History)

Subject: Metalwork
Country: Ireland
Period: 6th Century to 9th Century

Supervisor: Dr Rachel Moss
20,000

Irish Trade Banners in context 1830 - 1900

Lisa Godson
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1994
BA

Subject: Textiles and Banners
Country: Ireland
Period: 19th Century

10,000 words

Harry Clarke's illustrations for Edgar Allen Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination and Goethe's Faust

Suzanne Elizabeth Good
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2004
BA

Subject: Painting/ Stain Glass
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

This dissertation focuses on the illustrations by Harry Clark of the two title works. It is divided into three clear sections, the first approaces Clark's varied artistic career, working between his family's Stain Glass workshop in Dublin, and his career as a successful illustrator, whose drawings were welcomed by an open-minded British public. Clarke chose each caption that he illustrated, rather than the editor, and so language is also significant in exploration of these works. His interest in the fantastic and the sublime is evident from his choices of illustrated passages. The author focuses secondly on Edgar Allen Poe's text, and how Clark's images are both striking and immediate, and in keeping with Poe's fixation on decay and mortality. Finally the dissertation focuses on Clarkes development of this style in illustrating Goethe's text, and his approach to the depiction of evil and all things sinister, without ever being gaudy or vulgar.

A survey of the Irish Industrial Exhibition of 1853

George Gordon
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1979
BA

Subject: Architecture, exhibition
Country: Ireland
Period: 19th Century

10,000 words

Natural Architecture from Nature as an Influence to Architecture to Nature Itself as Architecture

Hannah Clare Gordon
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2011
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: America, Australia, France and Ireland
Period: 20th and 21st Century

10,000 words

This dissertation examines the development of the use of nature in architecture. Its primary focus is outlining the transition from nature as influence to design to nature itself forming architecture. This process is documented through four key phases, as detailed in each of the four chapters. Chapter One analyses the presence of nature in architecture as shown by ancient and Renaissance treatises. The study of architectural theory recognizes the importance of nature to the classical approach to design. Chapter Two develops the concept that man is inherently connected to his environment. Chapter Three demonstrates that natural architecture has its basis in the Land Art movement, where structure was made from the Earth itself. Chapter Four deals with organic design and examples from contemporary architectural practice.

Black Male Figures and Their Relationship with Late Twentieth Century Media Representations in the Silhouette Panoramas of Artist Kara Walker

Catherine Aisling Grace
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2021
BA

Subject: Paper Cut-Outs, Silhoutte Tableaux
Country: USA
Period: 20th & 21st Centuries

10,000 words

Exploring Ritual and Ritual-Like Activity in the Work of Áine Phillips.

Grace Benham
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2023
BA

Subject: Performance Art
Country: Ireland
Period: 21st Century

10,000 words

The Mazzetti Collection

Harrison Grady
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2014
BA

Subject: Architecture, Painting, Stucco and Marble
Country: Italy and Switzerland
Period: Various

10,000 words

Les Levine's Blame God

Gwendoline Anne Graham
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2004
BA

Subject: Public Art
Country: Ireland and England
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

This dissertation is a history of the controversial poster board campaign by Les Levine first brought to Dublin in 1985, somewhat unsuccesfully and for the second time by the Irish Museum of Modern Art in 1995, again causing uproar amongst the general public. The first part deals with the boundaries of public art, from its beginnings to present day. Public art is often met with hostility and this poster campaign was no exception. The author deals with Levine's influences and choices, the use of text as an integral part of the image itself and also the use of advertising techniques in this piece of public art. The final chapter is an account of the controvercial reception of the campaign, as well as the political climate of the time, relevant to its acceptance, or rather lack of. The dissertation concludes by assesing the value of this type of controversy within contemporary society.

A Study of the Castledermot High Crosses: An Enduring Artistic Impression

Nicola Gray
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2012
BA

Subject: Sculpture
Country: Ireland
Period: 9th Century

10,000 words

The Evolution of the "Arthouse", the first ever purpose built Multimedia Centre

Elayne Michelle Greene
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2000
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

Sophie Calle: ‘The Marcel Duchamp of Emotional Dirty Laundry?’

Rebecca Greene
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2011
BA

Subject: Installation, Painting and Sculpture
Country: France
Period: 20th and 21st Century

10,000 words

Education Theses Register —Department of History of Art and Architecture

A Study Comparing and Contrasting the Role of Cartoons and Photographs in the British Press during World War II

The Conservation of Art: Comparative Issues in the Preservation of Manuscripts, Paintings and Sculpture

Studies in 18th Century Building History

Portraits, Politics and Pulchritude, The Court of Agnolo Bronzino

The Depiction of the Victim and the Hero in the Work of Ilya Repin and Vasily Surikov

Five Bronze Crucifixes in the Hunt Museum Limerick

Medieval Tomb Canopies in Ireland

The Development of the Modernist Movement in Ireland 1920-1950: A Study of An Informal Women’s Network

The Faddan More Psalter

“Dublin Art-itecture”. The New, The Converted, and The Extended Art Gallery Space. 1960 - 1996

Richard Castle and his Approach to Interior Decoration with Particular Reference to Hazelwood, Co. Sligo

The Significance of Studs in Insular Art, 7th to 12th Centuries

The Significance of Glass Stud Gems in Insular Metalwork, 7th-9th century

Irish Trade Banners in context 1830 - 1900

Harry Clarke's illustrations for Edgar Allen Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination and Goethe's Faust

A survey of the Irish Industrial Exhibition of 1853

Natural Architecture from Nature as an Influence to Architecture to Nature Itself as Architecture

Black Male Figures and Their Relationship with Late Twentieth Century Media Representations in the Silhouette Panoramas of Artist Kara Walker

Exploring Ritual and Ritual-Like Activity in the Work of Áine Phillips.

The Mazzetti Collection

Les Levine's Blame God

A Study of the Castledermot High Crosses: An Enduring Artistic Impression

The Evolution of the "Arthouse", the first ever purpose built Multimedia Centre

Sophie Calle: ‘The Marcel Duchamp of Emotional Dirty Laundry?’

Education Theses Register —
Department of History of Art and Architecture