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Sidney Nolan and Ned Kelly: Living Through the Landscape

Sam Burton
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2013
BA

Subject: Painting, Watercolour and Mixed Media
Country: Australia
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

Revivalist and Realist: Pre-Raphaelitism and Photography

Jessica Burton Restrick
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2019
BA

Subject: Painting and Photography
Country: England
Period: 19th Century

10,000 words

This dissertation will compare and contrast Pre-Raphaelite and avant garde photography in Britain from 1850-1870. Rather than viewing these groups as two separate movements, this paper will show how they were in fact part of one larger movement, joined by a shared romantic anticapitalist philosophy which could be expressed through their various media. Each chapter looks at a shared subject-matter in the two-media that expressed this romantic anti-capitalist view. It first examines literary medievalism, exploring the issues in defining illustration that each medium had with regards to public criticism. The second looks at the topic of the fallen women and the concerns about prostitution which peaked in the mid-century. The final chapter concludes the concern of the Pre-Raphaelites and photographers with the social responsibility of art.

Context and Subtext of Religious Art in Madrid During the Reign of Philip IV

Marta Bustillo
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2004
PhD

Country: Spain: Madrid
Period: 16th Century

Supervisor: Dr. Peter Cherry
Approx. 60,000 - 80,000 words

The Genre Paintings of Murillo: Scenes of Everyday Life or Moral Images?

Marta Bustillo
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1996
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Spain
Period: 17th Century

10,000 words

The Origins of Common Perceptions of Women in art; An investigation into the historical role of women in the visual arts as determined by the art establishment.

Tara Sarah Byrne
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1991
BA

Subject: Art
Country: Ireland and Italy
Period: 16th- 19th Century

10,000 words

“The Art of Persuasion.” A study of the tomb of Sir Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond and his wife Lady Margaret Fitzgerald, in St. Canice’s Cathedral, Kilkenny

Valerie B. Byrne
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1993
BA

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

10,000 words

The Mother Image in 20th Century Irish Art

Frances Byrne
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2005
MPhil (Irish Art History)

Subject: Art
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Dr. Yvonne Scott
20,000

Context and continuity: A research of the cross-inscribed slabs and related monuments of Inishmurray Island

Lara Byrne
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2001
BA

Subject: Sculpture
Country: Ireland
Period: Early Christian Ireland

10,000 words

This dissertation though it has a particularly archaeological flavour, uses an interdisciplinary approach to reconstruct the settlement patterns of Inishmurray Island off the coast of Co. Sligo. The author uses the cross-inscribed slabs and other monuments on the island to examine the history of the island and its settlement pattern. The main issue that the dissertation addresses is the question of when the island was deserted.The author questions the remark made by scholars such as Francoise Henry and St. Joseph that the island was deserted after Vikings invaded in 807AD and not reinhabited until the later medieval period. By using the dating of the cross-inscribed slabs the author argues for the continuity of settlement on the island. Chapters include a site description and outline of the historical background of the island and an analysis of the various artefacts found on and connected with the site.

Cats in the Book of Kells

Henry Byrne
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2011
MPhil (Irish Art History)

Subject: Manuscript
Country: Ireland
Period: 8th Century

Supervisor: Dr Rachel Moss
20,000

Spectatorship and the Gaze: The case of the Female Viewer

Katriona Byrne
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1994
BA

Subject: Art theory
Country: Various
Period: Various

10,000 words

‘Unrealised’: An Irish House for an Irish Leader Architectural Competition for a Residence for the Taoiseach and a State Guest House in 1979

Anna Caffrey
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2018
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

Samuel Lover : His life and work

Paul E.M. Caffrey
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1985
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Ireland
Period: 18th and 19th Century

10,000 words

Billy Quinn: An Artist for a Time of Plague, Work from the 1990s

Patrick Anthony Caffrey
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2017
MPhil

Subject: Multimedia
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Dr Catherine Lawless

This thesis concerns the work of the artist Billy Quinn during the decade of the 1990s. It was a very productive time for him, and a period during which he returned to a much-changed Ireland having spent a number of years in London and New York. On first looking at Billy Quinn’s work, it does not surrender any suggestion of Irish roots but rather of the artistic and intellectual environments of London, New York City and specifically the gay-AIDS support community in New York during the 1980s and early 1990s. It also displays his deep familiarity with Western art, literature and philosophy. Since childhood, Quinn, as he emphasised in his interview, has had a love of reading and ideas. This was the time of AIDS and its devastation. It was a time when Michel Foucault’s ideas were discussed and reviewed in the New York Native1 along with statistics about infections and T-cell counts. Foucault’s ideas were used as a way of making sense out of the chaos in which the gay community found itself. It provided strategies to combat institutionalised indifference and homophobia. Aiding in that battle was the work of Eve Sedgwick (Sedgwick, 1994, p. 3) and Judith Butler (Butler, 1999). Their writings on gender worked out Foucault’s ideas in a way that had immediate relevance for the gay community and its survival. Quinn’s work is about AIDS but also about faith and family. It addresses more issues than what a paper of this size allows time and space for. Billy Quinn was born in Dublin in 1954. In 1973 and 1974 he attended the National College of Art and Design (NCAD) Foundation Year Programme. Before finishing he left Ireland and moved to London. Between 1977 and 1979 he studied for a diploma in fine art at City and Guilds in London. He continued his studies at North East London Polytechnic, gaining a BA in Fine Art and Film in 1982. In 1984 he started an MA in Theatre at the University of London. Shortly after, he went to New York where he lived until his return to Ireland in 1995. In New York, he supported himself with interior design projects and became involved in community activism as an early member of Act Up.2 By 1990 he was back making art. From 1990 to 1995 he participated in a number of group and individual shows in New York, Chicago and Atlanta. All these shows were of works mostly concerned with the AIDS crisis and how people responded to it. His work was his response to the crisis. On his return to Ireland he was an artist in residence at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) and displayed work with Out Art3 and at the Temple Bar Gallery in 1996 and 1998. During his stay in Dublin he worked on material that contributed to his PhD at East London University. The following year he returned to London and completed his PhD in Fine Art in 2000. The title of his dissertation is ‘More Life: Towards a Vitalist Manifesto or Bifurcation, Pseudopodia and the worm, Jane Seymour and me, even’. Since then he has lived and worked in the Netherlands.

Is it not about Banksy?

Sacha Cahill
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2012
BA

Subject: Graffiti and Media
Country: England
Period: 21st Century

10,000 words

Ahead of the Class: Sir John Leslie, HRHA, 1822-1916

Myles Campbell
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2009
MPhil (Irish Art History)

Country: Ireland
Period: 19th Century to Early 20th Century

Supervisor: Dr Philip McEvansoneya
20,000

Ercole de' Roberti and the Griffoni Predella

Stephen Campbell
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1985
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Italy
Period: 15th Century

10,000 words

Irish Artist in France and Belgium 1850-1914

Julian Campbell
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1980
PhD

Subject: Painting
Country: France / Belgium
Period: 19th to 20th Century

Supervisor: Anne Crookshank
Approx. 60,000 - 80,000 words

English Architects in Ireland, c.1830-1875

Myles Campbell
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2014
PhD

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 19th Century

Supervisor: Prof. Christine Casey
Approx. 60,000 - 80,000 words

From the ‘Painterly’ to Multiplicity: Towards an ‘Aesthetic of Disorder’ as Evidenced in the Work of Mark Francis

Susan Campbell

Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2013
MPhil (Irish Art History)

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

Supervisor: Dr Yvonne Scott
20,000

A Cross-Disciplinary Investigation into the ‘Aesthetic of Disorder’ in Contemporary Western Art

Susan Campbell
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2019
PhD

Subject: Western Aesthetics

Supervisor: Dr Yvonne Scott
Approx. 60,000 - 80,000 words

Mary McIntyre and the Contemporary Landscape: An Enquiry into the Impact of Place on the Work of Photographer Mary McIntyre

Geraldine Canavan
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2009
MPhil (Irish Art History)

Subject: Photography: Landscape
Period: 20th Century and 21st Century

Supervisor: Dr Yvonne Scott
20,000

Guillaume Guillon-Lethiere (1760-1832) An investigation into the life and works of al mixed-race Caribbean artist in pre and post-revolutionary France

Sophie Carey
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2018
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: France
Period: 18th and 19th Century

10,000 words

This dissertation grew out of an initial inquiry into abolitionist paintings which led to the discovery of ‘Oath of the Ancestors’ by Guillaume Guillon-Lethere. Initial research into the artist (which required several variations of his surname: Le Thiers, Lethier, Lethiere) elicited few results which revealed the lack of interest and scholarship that has been devoted to Lethiere. As a result, this dissertation is a study of Guillaume Guillon-Lethiere (1760-1832), a French artist of mixed-race origins from Guadelope in the French West Indies. The dissertation seeks to prove that the lack of scholarship undertaken on the artist’s work does not reflect his prominence as an artist of his time. Lethere was not an obscure painting, but rather was one of the most prominent figures of the French art world at the end of a turbulent century.

The Taqrir of al-Dashtaki. Chester Beatty Library manuscript Ar4220 an illustrated treatise on astronomy written in Arabic in 16th century Persia.

Moya Carey
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1997
BA

Subject: Manuscript
Country: Iran
Period: 16th Century

10,000 words

‘Not Many Years Ago Inhabited’ A Critical Evaluation of the Restoration of Bremore Castle, Balbriggan

Ronan Carey
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2016
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Century: 16th Century

10,000 words

Education Theses Register —Department of History of Art and Architecture

Sidney Nolan and Ned Kelly: Living Through the Landscape

Revivalist and Realist: Pre-Raphaelitism and Photography

Context and Subtext of Religious Art in Madrid During the Reign of Philip IV

The Genre Paintings of Murillo: Scenes of Everyday Life or Moral Images?

The Origins of Common Perceptions of Women in art; An investigation into the historical role of women in the visual arts as determined by the art establishment.

“The Art of Persuasion.” A study of the tomb of Sir Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond and his wife Lady Margaret Fitzgerald, in St. Canice’s Cathedral, Kilkenny

The Mother Image in 20th Century Irish Art

Context and continuity: A research of the cross-inscribed slabs and related monuments of Inishmurray Island

Cats in the Book of Kells

Spectatorship and the Gaze: The case of the Female Viewer

‘Unrealised’: An Irish House for an Irish Leader Architectural Competition for a Residence for the Taoiseach and a State Guest House in 1979

Samuel Lover : His life and work

Billy Quinn: An Artist for a Time of Plague, Work from the 1990s

Is it not about Banksy?

Ahead of the Class: Sir John Leslie, HRHA, 1822-1916

Ercole de' Roberti and the Griffoni Predella

Irish Artist in France and Belgium 1850-1914

English Architects in Ireland, c.1830-1875

From the ‘Painterly’ to Multiplicity: Towards an ‘Aesthetic of Disorder’ as Evidenced in the Work of Mark Francis

A Cross-Disciplinary Investigation into the ‘Aesthetic of Disorder’ in Contemporary Western Art

Mary McIntyre and the Contemporary Landscape: An Enquiry into the Impact of Place on the Work of Photographer Mary McIntyre

Guillaume Guillon-Lethiere (1760-1832) An investigation into the life and works of al mixed-race Caribbean artist in pre and post-revolutionary France

The Taqrir of al-Dashtaki. Chester Beatty Library manuscript Ar4220 an illustrated treatise on astronomy written in Arabic in 16th century Persia.

‘Not Many Years Ago Inhabited’ A Critical Evaluation of the Restoration of Bremore Castle, Balbriggan

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Department of History of Art and Architecture