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Houses of the Great: An Architectural Examination of J.J. McCarthy's Cathedrals

Shelby Todd
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2016
MA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 19th Century

Supervisor: Associate Professor Lynda Mulvin
15,000 words

Reclaiming the Colonized Body: Shifting Feminist Notions in Visual Art Production in the 1970 & 1980s

Derek Towell
University of Limerick
College of Humanities, Department of History (History of Art Postgraduate Courses only)
2004
MA

Subject: Art Theory
Period: Late 20th Century

Supervisor: Catherine Lawless
Approx. 33,000 words

The Evolvement of the Artistic Career of Matthias Stom in Southern Italy

Benedetta Tramontozzi
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2021
MA (minor thesis)

Subject: Renaissance
Country: Italy
Period: 17th Century

Supervisor: Associate Professor John Loughman
123 pages

The Evolvement of the Artistic Career of Matthias Stom in Southern Italy

Benedetta Tramontozzi
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2021
MA (Minor Thesis)

Subject: Renaissance
Country: Northern and Southern Italy
Period: 17th Century

Supervisor: Associate Professor John Loughman
123 pages

Clonmel House, Harcourt Street

Frederic Trench
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2003
MA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland: Dublin
Period: Late 18th Century

Supervisor: Dr. Christine Casey
15,000 words

Frida Kahlo’s Journey Through Motherhood Miscarriages, Procreation and Her Dolls

Olga Tsismetzoglou
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2023
MA (Minor Thesis)

Subject: Procreation
Country: Mexico and the USA
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Dr Aleksandra Gajowy
56 pages

“The Art of Surprise” The Maire MacNeilly Sweeney Bequest at the National Gallery of Ireland

Julie Tyrrell
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2007
MA

Subject: Painting
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Dr. John Loughman
15,000 words

The Role of Women in the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London and the Exposition Universelle of 1855 in Paris

Paula Van Herk
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
1998
MA

Subject: painting, sculpture, gender
Country: England and France
Period: 20th century

Supervisor: Dr Paula Murphy
15,000 words

Recycling Art: Contemporary Artists Creating New Art From Old

Michaela Vávová
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2022
MA (Minor Thesis)

Subject: Contemporary/New Art
Country: Brazil/USA/Ukraine
Period: 20th and 21st Century

Supervisor: Dr Sean Leatherbury
66 pages

Responding to Underrepresentation: The Aims, Challenges, and Legacy of the Women Artist’s Action Group

Iris Vos
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2024
MA (minor thesis)

Subject: Activist Art
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Dr Roisin Kennedy
15,000 words

Hidden Dimensions: Magic, Science, and Imagination in Domenicus van Wijnen’s ‘Temptation of Saint Anthony’

Ros Waller
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2024
MA (minor thesis)

Subject: Iconography
Country: Netherlands/ Europe
Period: 16th & 17th Century

Supervisor: Dr Philip Cottrell
15,000 words

A Brief Survey on 19th Century Decorative Ironwork

Bernadette Walsh
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2004
MA

Subject: Architecture: Ironwork
Period: 19th Century

Supervisor: Dr. Christine Casey
15,000 words

Orientalism and Irish Art

Ger Walsh
University of Limerick
College of Humanities, Department of History (History of Art Postgraduate Courses only)
2009
MA

Subject: Orientalism
Country: Ireland

Supervisor: Catherine Lawless
21,000 words

The Influence of the Eastern Worldviews on the Western Art

Danyun Wang
University of Limerick
College of Humanities, Department of History (History of Art Postgraduate Courses only)
2012
MA

Supervisor: Catherine Lawless
21,000 words

"The Artist Who Has His Foot in a History book and an Eye on Himself Can Move, But Not Directly": Time, Memory and Metis in Robert Rauschenberg's XXXIV Drawings for Dante's Inferno

Rachel Warriner
University College Cork
Faculty of Arts and Celtics Studies' Department of History of Art
2010
MA

Subject: Art
Country: U.S.A
Period: 20th Century

20,000 words

The Modern Gallery and its Role in a Viewer's Liminal Experiencing of an Artwork

Fiona White
University College Cork
Faculty of Arts and Celtics Studies' Department of History of Art
2012
MA

Subject: Gallery Display
Period: 21st Century

20,000 words

An Iconographical Interpretation of the ‘Ancestors’ of Christ’ in the Lunettes of the Sistine Chapel

Elizabeth Williams
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2011
MA

Subject: Painting
Country: Italy
Period: 16th Century

Supervisor: Dr. Philip Cottrell
15,000 words

The Changing Roman Religious Identity as Documented by pagan and Christian Sarcophagi Iconography

Sarah Wilson
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2010
MA

Subject: Sculpture
Country: Italy
Period: Early Christian

Supervisor: Dr. Lynda Mulvin
15,000 words

Wladystaw Podkowisku’s Frenzy of Exultations

Cathy Wojnicki
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2018
MA

Subject: Painting
Country: Poland
Period: 19th Century

Supervisor: Dr Philip Cottrell
15,000 words

Situating Sarah

Ruth Wood
University of Limerick
College of Humanities, Department of History (History of Art Postgraduate Courses only)
2012

MA

Supervisor: Catherine Lawless
21,000 words

Viewing Venus: Roman Women and the Goddess of Love, Beauty and Desire

Maria Wood
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2021
MA (minor thesis)

Subject: Roman Antiquity
Country: Rome/ Italy
Period: Republican Rome

Supervisor: Dr Séan Leatherbury
50 pages

Viewing Venus: Roman Women and the Goddess of Love, Beauty and Desire

Mari Wood
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2021
MA (Minor Thesis)

Subject: Roman Antiquity
Country: Rome/Italy
Period: Republican Rome

Supervisor: Dr Séan Leatherbury
50 pages

Revolution Remembered: The Traumatic Memories of the Irish Revolutionary Years in Jack B. Yeats's Late Paintings and their Relationship to Irish Collective Memory of the years between 1913 and 1923

Laura Woulfe
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2014
MA

Subject: Painting
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th century

Supervisor: Dr Róisín Kennedy
15,000 words

Good and Evil in Dore’s Inferno and Paradise Lost

Maria Yampolski
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2010
MA

Subject: Painting
Country: France
Period: 19th Century

Supervisor: Dr. John Loughman
15,000 words

Education Theses Register —M.A.

Houses of the Great: An Architectural Examination of J.J. McCarthy's Cathedrals

Reclaiming the Colonized Body: Shifting Feminist Notions in Visual Art Production in the 1970 & 1980s

The Evolvement of the Artistic Career of Matthias Stom in Southern Italy

The Evolvement of the Artistic Career of Matthias Stom in Southern Italy

Clonmel House, Harcourt Street

Frida Kahlo’s Journey Through Motherhood Miscarriages, Procreation and Her Dolls

“The Art of Surprise” The Maire MacNeilly Sweeney Bequest at the National Gallery of Ireland

The Role of Women in the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London and the Exposition Universelle of 1855 in Paris

Recycling Art: Contemporary Artists Creating New Art From Old

Responding to Underrepresentation: The Aims, Challenges, and Legacy of the Women Artist’s Action Group

Hidden Dimensions: Magic, Science, and Imagination in Domenicus van Wijnen’s ‘Temptation of Saint Anthony’

A Brief Survey on 19th Century Decorative Ironwork

Orientalism and Irish Art

The Influence of the Eastern Worldviews on the Western Art

"The Artist Who Has His Foot in a History book and an Eye on Himself Can Move, But Not Directly": Time, Memory and Metis in Robert Rauschenberg's XXXIV Drawings for Dante's Inferno

The Modern Gallery and its Role in a Viewer's Liminal Experiencing of an Artwork

An Iconographical Interpretation of the ‘Ancestors’ of Christ’ in the Lunettes of the Sistine Chapel

The Changing Roman Religious Identity as Documented by pagan and Christian Sarcophagi Iconography

Wladystaw Podkowisku’s Frenzy of Exultations

Situating Sarah

Viewing Venus: Roman Women and the Goddess of Love, Beauty and Desire

Viewing Venus: Roman Women and the Goddess of Love, Beauty and Desire

Revolution Remembered: The Traumatic Memories of the Irish Revolutionary Years in Jack B. Yeats's Late Paintings and their Relationship to Irish Collective Memory of the years between 1913 and 1923

Good and Evil in Dore’s Inferno and Paradise Lost

Education Theses Register —
M.A.