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The Death of Louise Vernet as the Leading Cause in the Depiction of Religious Imagery in the Work of Paul Delacroche

Aifric Dennison
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2016
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: France
Century: 19th Century

10,000 words

The dissertation discusses the theory that it was the death of Louise Vernet that led to the depiction of religious imagery, particularly religious female imagery in the work of Paul Delaroche after 1845 until his death in 1856. Delaroche was a painter of the historical genre whose work was largely focused on representing the female victim in various states of decline, from condemned to dead. After the death of Vernet in December 1845, Delaroche’s work became more focused on religious imagery and through the depiction of religious imagery, his work became more poignant and emotionally evocative. The work of Delaroche shifted between the depiction of the male and female victim. However, it was his representations of the female victim that displayed his abilities as an artist and that led to his widespread success in his lifetime.

The Veneration of St. Thomas of Canterbury in Ireland, with particular reference to late medieval tomb sculpture

Elizabeth Dennison
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1981
BA

Subject: Funerary monuments
Country: Ireland and England
Period 12th to 15th Century

10,000 words

The Virgin Sacrifices: Representations of the Sacrifices of Iphigenia and Polyxena in Art

Alicia Deveney
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2003
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Western Europe
Period: Classical Antiquity to 19th Century

10,000 words

This dissertation analyses the depiction of the virgin sacrifices of Iphigenia and Polyxena in relation to the Classical literary sources. The sources for the mythology are introduced and the stories are summarised. Vase paintings from classical antiquity and a lost wall painting by Timanthes are identified as the earliest examples of the subject. Paintings by Domenichino, Poussin and the French Academy are treated. The importance of Pietro da Cortona's 'The Sacrifice of Polyxena' in establishing the pictorial prototype for depictions of the sacrifice is discovered. Eighteenth century Venetian depictions are discussed in relation to contemporary operas. The changing ways of painting this mythological subject are related to historical and social contexts as well as the literary sources.

The Presence of Aztec Iconography in the Work of Frido Kahlo

Niamh Devereux
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2019
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Mexico
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

Marino Marini: Horse and Rider 1945-1960

Ruth Devine
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1998
BA

Subject: Sculpture
Country: Italy
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

Drawn to Distant Waters

Emer Dillon
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2014
BA

Subject: Photography, Film and Digital Painting
Country: England, Ireland and Oceania
Period: 19th and 20th Century

10,000 words

Depictions of Women and their Sexuality in the Work of Modernist Artists: Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele A feminist approach on how the female body served as a sexual object in fin-de-siecle Vienna.

Siobhan Dillon
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2018
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Austria
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

The topic of this dissertation of this dissertatation takes a feminist approach to the period of early 1900s during the turn of the century in Vienna. The focus of the work will be on two specific artists in conjunction: Gustav Klimt and his contemporary Egon Schiele, examining approaches to depictions of women have allowed me to gain a wider insight on the male dominated society constructed for Viennese women. A biographical point of view on each artist and an in depth analysis of their works portraying women, their sexuality and societal gender roles allow the viewer to understand the way in which both artists have developed modern, but restricted representations of women. Klimt and Shiele moved forward and broke ground with innovative imagery using women, but unfortunatley failed to solve the misogyny of the finde-siecle.

A study of Francisco Goya Y Lucientes Los Caprichos

Marie Diviney
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1990
BA

Subject: Print
Country: Spain
Period: 18th and 19th Century

10,000 words

Five recent works by James Coleman

Luke Dodd
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1985
BA

Subject: Performance installation, video installation, slide installation and sound installation
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

From the Margins to the Centre: The Artistic Trajectory of Irish Contemporary Sculptor John Behan

Lucy Dodd
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2023
BA

Subject: Sculpture
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th & 21st Century

10,000 words

The Bauhaus 1919 - 1933

Jarlath Dolan
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1982
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Germany
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

Tomato: A Contemporary Approach to Visual Music in Audio-Visual Art

David Donoghue
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2011
BA

Subject: Visual Music
Country: England
Period: 20th and 21st Century

10,000 words

Historical and Mythical Themes in Irish Art (1760-1860)

Maria Doody
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1991
BA

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

10,000 words

A Collection of Drawings by Benjamin Woodward?

Cathal Dowd Smith
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2019
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 19th Century

10,000 words

The purpose of this study is to establish the authorship of a collection of drawings in the Royal Irish Academy hitherto attributed to one of Ireland’s foremost architects of the nineteenth century. Benjamin Woodward (1815-1861). This collection of 128 drawings of Irish antiquities displays a variety in subject-matter, treatment, style and finish that raises doubts as to the validity of the attribution to Woodward. The drawings are significant not least as part of the Academy collection, but also for what they can tell us about the burgeoning architectural study of antiquarian remains in the nineteenth century The study aims to broaden our understanding of this ‘collection’ and deals chiefly with the issues of attribution and provenance of these 128 drawings and does not claim to deal exhaustively with other questions.

Constructing Strong Bodies, Constructing Strong Morals: Imagery of Food in Nineteenth-Century British Art

Laoise Doyle
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2016
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Britain
Century: 19th Century

10,000 words

Scheduling Civilisation: A study of BBC Art History 1969-2006

Kelvin Doyle
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2013
BA

Subject: TV documentaries on Painting, Sculpture and Architecture
Country: England
Period: 20th and 21st Century

10,000 words

Catalogue of Architectural Drawings entered for the Competition held in 1802-3 for the Alteration of the Old Parliament House, Dublin, to the Bank of Ireland.

Brenda Mary Doyle
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1986
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 19th Century

10,000 words

Selling America Back to Herself: Coca-Cola and the Commodification of Beauty

Michelle Doyle
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2012
BA

Subject: Advertisements and Mixed Media
Country: America
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

Animal Imagery on the Irish high crosses between the 7th and the tenth centuries

Colm Doyle
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1989
BA

Subject: Sculpture and High Cross
Country: Ireland
Period: 7th-10th Century

10,000 words

Dublin’s Recent Bridges and Boardwalks: The Changing Face of the Liffey

Louise Dredge
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2007
BA

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

10,000 words

The City’s Drawing Room: An Exploration of the Form, Function and Influence of the Coffee House in fin-de-siecle Vienna

Anna Drum
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2004
BA

Subject: Painting and Architecture
Country: Various
Period: 19th Century

10,000 words

This dissertation is essentially study of the influece of the Viennese coffee house on the interaction of artists and subsequent artistic renaissance at the end if the nineteenth century. The dissertation looks at the coffee house itself as a realm between public and private that encourages debate outside the academy, and explores the impact of the coffee house in the subsequent artistic movement generated by such discussion. The dissertation focuses on contemporary political and social change in relation to the cafe, and the cafe as a forum for these changes. The specific movements, such as Jung Wein to the Secession, to the birth of the expressionist group. Key figures including Kokoshka and Loos are studied in greater detail in the final chapter, as well as their sociological impact.

The Philip Hardwick Album. ‘And Splendour Borrows All Her Rays From Sense.’

Rowena Dudley
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1989
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland and England
Period: 18th Century

10,000 words

An architectural and historical account of the Old Parish Church of St. Mary’s in Callan

Sarah Duffy
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1987
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 13th - 17th Century

10,000 words

The Art of Storytelling: P.J. Lynch’s Illustrations

Jennifer Duffy
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2015
BA

Subject: Illustration and Graphic Art
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th and 21st Century

10,000 words

Education Theses Register —Trinity College Dublin / B.A.

The Death of Louise Vernet as the Leading Cause in the Depiction of Religious Imagery in the Work of Paul Delacroche

The Veneration of St. Thomas of Canterbury in Ireland, with particular reference to late medieval tomb sculpture

The Virgin Sacrifices: Representations of the Sacrifices of Iphigenia and Polyxena in Art

The Presence of Aztec Iconography in the Work of Frido Kahlo

Marino Marini: Horse and Rider 1945-1960

Drawn to Distant Waters

Depictions of Women and their Sexuality in the Work of Modernist Artists: Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele A feminist approach on how the female body served as a sexual object in fin-de-siecle Vienna.

A study of Francisco Goya Y Lucientes Los Caprichos

Five recent works by James Coleman

From the Margins to the Centre: The Artistic Trajectory of Irish Contemporary Sculptor John Behan

The Bauhaus 1919 - 1933

Tomato: A Contemporary Approach to Visual Music in Audio-Visual Art

Historical and Mythical Themes in Irish Art (1760-1860)

A Collection of Drawings by Benjamin Woodward?

Constructing Strong Bodies, Constructing Strong Morals: Imagery of Food in Nineteenth-Century British Art

Scheduling Civilisation: A study of BBC Art History 1969-2006

Catalogue of Architectural Drawings entered for the Competition held in 1802-3 for the Alteration of the Old Parliament House, Dublin, to the Bank of Ireland.

Selling America Back to Herself: Coca-Cola and the Commodification of Beauty

Animal Imagery on the Irish high crosses between the 7th and the tenth centuries

Dublin’s Recent Bridges and Boardwalks: The Changing Face of the Liffey

The City’s Drawing Room: An Exploration of the Form, Function and Influence of the Coffee House in fin-de-siecle Vienna

The Philip Hardwick Album. ‘And Splendour Borrows All Her Rays From Sense.’

An architectural and historical account of the Old Parish Church of St. Mary’s in Callan

The Art of Storytelling: P.J. Lynch’s Illustrations

Education Theses Register —
Trinity College Dublin / B.A.