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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

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

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

Church, State and the Irish Female Body: Performance Art and its Reaction to the Historic Treatment of Irish Women

Claire Young
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2019
MA (minor thesis)

Subject: Art/ Social Justice
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th and 21st Century

Supervisor: Associate Professor Emily Mark-FitzGerald
92 pages

Ai Weiwei’s Earthquake Exhibition series: a reflection on the evolution of installation art and its intersection with social justice by activism

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

Subject: Ai Weiwei/Con-temporary Art/Installation Art/Social Justice
Country: China
Period: 20th-21st Century

Supervisor: Dr Aleksandra Gajowy
35 pages

Irish Street Art and the Celtic Tiger

Alana Zuzak
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2012
MA

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

Supervisor: Dr. Conor Lucey
15,000 words