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Assessing the Experience of a Pilgrim on the Camino de Santiago in the High Middle Ages

Ross Creed
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2016
BA

Subject: Architecture and Sculpture
Country: Spain
Century: 9th-13th Century

10,000 words

The Camino de Santiago is a pilgrimage route that has been walked for over one thousand years. The route leads to the city of Santiago de Compostela in North-Western Spain. Here in the cathedral of the city, the remains of Saint James the Greater, apostle of Jesus Christ, are said to to held. The circumstances surrounding the arrival of the remains of the saint in the early ninth century are mysterious but regardless, there soon were thousands of pilgrims flocking to the city. At its height it was the third most important pilgrimage in Europe, after Rome and Jerusalem and may have even been the most popular over the Middle Ages as a whole. It remained popular throughout the Middle Ages until dying out in later centuries. However in the late 20th century, it has regained popularity and is visited by over of a quarter of a million people every year.

The Irish Response to the Street Art Phenomenon: Aesthetics, Activitism & Advertising

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

Subject: Street art, Graffiti and Mixed Media
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th and 21st Century

10,000 words

This dissertation examines the Irish response to the graffiti and street art phenomenon of the twentieth century, with a particular focus on contemporary examples, From its roots in the late twentieth-century as a subversive and illegal practice with little or no artistic intent, street art has gradually evolved into an accepted artform, attracting the attention of prestigious galleries and museums as well as collectors and art market investors. Through commercialisation and reception into the gallery space, street art now encompasses a wider range of artwork outside the illegal parameters. This includes collaborations with small businesses or corporations to create advertisement campaigns, endorsing street art as a marketable object. Examples of the work of contemporary Irish artists such as ADW, James Earley, Maser, Subset and Joe Caslin will be discussed.

Kara Walker’s Contemporary Use of the Silhouette

Federica Crescenzi
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2015
BA

Subject: Sihouette, Paper cut outs
Country: Africa and America
Period: 20th and 21st Century

10,000 words

Dorothy Cross: Removing Labels

Bebhinn Cronin
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2007
BA

Subject: Sculpture, video
Country: Ireland
Period: Late 20th and Early 21st Century

10,000 words

The RTE Campus: Innovation or Imitation?

Aisling Crowe
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2008
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

The Enigmatic Beard-Puller Motif in Medieval Art

Claire Crowley
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2007
BA

Subject: Sculpture
Country: Ireland, France and Spain
Period: 9th to 12th Century

10,000 words

The West Doorway of Clontuskert Priory, Co. Galway

Julie Cruess Callaghan
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1981
BA

Subject: Architecture: portal
Country: Ireland
Period: 12th to 15th Century

10,000 words

Some Aspects of the Deliverance Cycle on Irish High crosses

Catrina Cruickshank
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1991
BA

Subject: Sculpture and High Cross
Country: Ireland
Period: 12th Century

10,000 words

Queering Contemporary Irish Art: Eimear Walshe and Dylan Kerr

Ailbhe Cullen
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2022
BA

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

10,000 words

Settting the scene with art. An Examination of the influence Pablo Picasso had on the Ballet Russes and the Ballet Russes’s influence on Picasso.

Suzanne Cummins
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1998
BA

Subject: Set Design, Costume and Painting
Country: Russia and France
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

Where Does Architecture Stop?

Ruth Cunney
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1992
BA

Subject: Architecture and Furniture
Country: Various
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

The Dochas Centre, and Irish Prison Architecture

Mory Cunningham
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2001
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

The Implications of Servitude: Representations of Slavery in French Art, c. 1860-1870

Maeve Curran
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2017
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: France
Period: 19th Century

10,000 words

Domenico Beccafumi of Siena, Painter and Master of Casting

Patsy Currid
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2001
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Italy
Period: 17th Century

10,000 words

The Representation of Queenship in medieval French Art, the twelfth to fifteenth centuries: From Secular Queens to the Queen of Heaven

Stephanie Curtin
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2002
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: France
Period: 12th- 15th Century

10,000 words

This study of medieval French art focuses on the representation of queenship, both secular and heavenly. The iconography of the secular queen in French medieval art is considered in relation to the position of the queen in French medieval society while comparing the historical sources to the visual evidence. Contemporary sources are examined as a discussion of the ideals associated with queenship. The relationship between the representation of secular and heavenly queens is analysed in the discussion of the attachment of queenly virtues and symbols to the Virgin Mary. Chapter 3, The Queen of Heaven, discusses the development of the cult of the Virgin and representations of the Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin in French medieval art. A range of both sculpture, manuscript illumination is discussed along with some stained glass examples.

The Architecture of the Leix & Offaly Plantations: c1540-1600

Máirtín D'Alton
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2009
PhD

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 16th Century

Approx. 60,000 - 80,000 words

The Work of Filippo and Paolo Francini in Ireland with particular reference to the iconography of Carton House, No. 85 St. Stephen’s Green and Riverstown House, Co. Cork.

Adrienne Dagg
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1978
BA

Subject: Architecture, plasterwork, stuccowork
Country: Ireland
Period 18th Century

10,000 words

Basil Blackshaw - Blazing His Own Trail

Claire Dalton
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2007
BA

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

10,000 words

Early Medieval Artistic Styles in the Romanesque: 'Archaic' Architectural Sculpture in 11th-13th Century Tuscany

Eoghan Daltun
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2007
MLitt

Subject: Sculpture, Architecture
Country: Italy
Period: 11th Century to 13th Century

Supervisor: Dr Rachel Moss
Approx. 30,000-40,000 words

An Analysis of the Portraits of the Royal Children of Philip IV by Diego de Velazquez

Sinead Daly
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1996
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Spain
Period: 17th Century

10,000 words

Chimneypiece Design in Ireland, 1730-1770; Consumption, Authorship & Construction

Niamh Darling
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2020
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 18th Century

10,000 words

This study explores the factors influencing chimneypiece design in Ireland during the eighteenth century. Tracing the movement from bespoke design to serial production, this dissertation links changes in chimneypiece design to the rise of speculative housing in Dublin which resulted in a fractured approach to interior design, arguably freeing the chimneypiece from its architectural fabric and celebrating its decorative function. Taking into consideration social, economic and industrial factors, this dissertation highlights the client and craftsman as contributors to the design process rather than crediting leading contemporary architects with the sole responsibiliy of design. This disseratation posits that chimneypieces were produced and designed within a collaborative matrix and the explores the complexities of design authorship.

“As it was and where it was”. The Reconstruction of the Bridge at Sta. Trinita

Giuliano Davenport
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1993
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Italy
Period: 13th, 14th, 16th and 20th Century

10,000 words

Examining the Impact of the 2008 Recession on the Market for Irish Art

Michala Davey-Borresen
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2017
BA

Subject: Painting and Installation
Country: Ireland
Period: 21st Century

10,000 words

This dissertation will examine the global and national impact, along with the underlying causes, of the catastrophic financial and economic recession in 2008-2009 on the market for Irish art. ‘Art’ will encompass fine Art such as paintings, sculpture and tapestries and decorative Art such as glass, wood, metal, ceramic, couture and textiles. The relationship between art and money has existed for centuries: once defined as a commodity, the domain of art attracts abstract concepts and ideas that translate art into a material product, capable of being sold for financial gain. With a small population in comparison with countries such as the United States, the limited size of wealth in Ireland makes us a small domestic market and a player worth 1% of the worldwide art market. Irish buyers tend to invest more in art by Irish artists.

A Cultural and Visual Analysis of the Work of Helmut Newton in the Context of Gender, Classicism and the Psycholoanalysis of Visual Pleasure.

Isabella Davie
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2014
BA

Subject: Photography
Country: America
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

Education Theses Register —Department of History of Art and Architecture

Assessing the Experience of a Pilgrim on the Camino de Santiago in the High Middle Ages

The Irish Response to the Street Art Phenomenon: Aesthetics, Activitism & Advertising

Kara Walker’s Contemporary Use of the Silhouette

Dorothy Cross: Removing Labels

The RTE Campus: Innovation or Imitation?

The Enigmatic Beard-Puller Motif in Medieval Art

The West Doorway of Clontuskert Priory, Co. Galway

Some Aspects of the Deliverance Cycle on Irish High crosses

Queering Contemporary Irish Art: Eimear Walshe and Dylan Kerr

Settting the scene with art. An Examination of the influence Pablo Picasso had on the Ballet Russes and the Ballet Russes’s influence on Picasso.

Where Does Architecture Stop?

The Dochas Centre, and Irish Prison Architecture

The Implications of Servitude: Representations of Slavery in French Art, c. 1860-1870

Domenico Beccafumi of Siena, Painter and Master of Casting

The Representation of Queenship in medieval French Art, the twelfth to fifteenth centuries: From Secular Queens to the Queen of Heaven

The Architecture of the Leix & Offaly Plantations: c1540-1600

The Work of Filippo and Paolo Francini in Ireland with particular reference to the iconography of Carton House, No. 85 St. Stephen’s Green and Riverstown House, Co. Cork.

Basil Blackshaw - Blazing His Own Trail

Early Medieval Artistic Styles in the Romanesque: 'Archaic' Architectural Sculpture in 11th-13th Century Tuscany

An Analysis of the Portraits of the Royal Children of Philip IV by Diego de Velazquez

Chimneypiece Design in Ireland, 1730-1770; Consumption, Authorship & Construction

“As it was and where it was”. The Reconstruction of the Bridge at Sta. Trinita

Examining the Impact of the 2008 Recession on the Market for Irish Art

A Cultural and Visual Analysis of the Work of Helmut Newton in the Context of Gender, Classicism and the Psycholoanalysis of Visual Pleasure.

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Department of History of Art and Architecture