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DEPARTMENT OF
ART HISTORY AND ART

 

DISSERTATIONS IN PROGRESS

(advisor in parantheses)

GREEK AND ROMAN ART
Nicole Bahl, "Birds in Attic Vase Painting" (Neils)

MEDIEVAL ART
Tiziana Sbisà, "The Cathedral at Nicosia in the Age of Frederick II and Louis IX: Issues of Patronage, Structure and Meaning" (Burroughs)

RENAISSANCE ART
• Christine Corretti, "Benvenuto Cellini and the Loggia dei Lanzi: Configurations of the Body of State" (Olszewski)
• Rachel Geschwind, "Saving Grace/Saving Face: Magdalene Imagery and Prostitution Reform in Venice and Rome, 1500-1700" (Olszewski)
• Michael Morford, "Carving for a future: Baccio Bandinelli Securing Medici Patronage through His Mutually Fulfilling Propagandistic Hercules and Cacus" (Olszewski)
• Dena Woodall, "Sharing Space: Double Portraiture in Sixteenth-Century Italy" (Olszewski)
• Christine Wolken, "A Profile of Women in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Women and their Commemorative Medals" (Olszewski)

DUTCH ART; 17TH AND 18TH CENTURY EUROPEAN ART
• Amy Frederick, "Rembrandt's Etched Sketches and Seventeenth-Century Print Culture" (Scallen)
• Catherine Watkins, "Rembrandt’s 1654 Life of Christ Prints: Experimentation, Tradition, and the Question of Series" (Scallen)

19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY, AMERICAN & EUROPEAN ART
• Kimberly Hyde, "Louis C. Tiffany and the Business of Art" (Adams)
• Evelyn Kiefer, "The Birth and Death of the American Dining Room: An Evolution from the Colonial Hall to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Dining Rooms and Beyond" (Adams)
• Ellen Lippert, "George Ohr and Late 19th Century America: The Mad Potter Rehabilitated" (Adams)

POST 1945 ART
Frank Spicer, "'Just What Was It That Made U.S. Art So Different, So Appealing?': Case Studies of the Critical Reception of American Avant-Garde Painting in London, 1956-1969" (Landau)

 

Dissertations recently completed:

RENAISSANCE ART
• Jennifer Finkel, "Michelangelo at San Lorenzo: The Tragedy of the Façade," 2005 (Olszewski)
• Karen Edwards, "Rethinking the Reinstallation of the Studiolo of Francesco I de' Medici in the Palazzo Vecchio," 2007 (Olszewski)

DUTCH ART; 17TH AND 18TH CENTURY EUROPEAN ART
• Aimee Marcereau DeGalan, "Dangerous Beauty: Painted Canvases and Painted Faces in Eighteenth-Century Britain," 2007 (Helmreich)

19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY, AMERICAN & EUROPEAN ART

• James Ellis, "The Fourteenth Street School," 2003 (Adams)
• Juilee Decker, "The Possibilities of Print: John Constable, English Landscape , and the Chiaroscuro of Nature," 2003 (Scallen)
• Bradley Bailey, "Duchamp's Chess Identity: 1916-1923," 2004 (Landau)
• Susan Martis, "Famous and Forgotten: Rodin and Three American Contemporaries," 2005 (Adams)
• Jenni Drozdek, "Life and Chimera: Framing Modernism in Poland," 2008 (Helmreich)

POST 1945 ART
• Patricia Richmond, "Gender and the Forms of Modernism: Dancers and Painters," 2003 (Landau)
• Amy Gilman, "Organizing Art: Information Theory and Conceptual Art--A Case Study of the 'Xeroxbook' Exhibition," 2005 (Landau)
Michael Weil, “Stieglitz's Dream, O'Keefe's Reality: The Stieglitz Collections in American Museums,” 2007 (Landau)

All PhD's (1970-present)