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DEPARTMENT OF
ART HISTORY AND ART

 

Dissertations in Progress

(Advisor in parentheses)


GREEK AND ROMAN ART

• Nicole Bahl, "Birds in Attic Vase Painting" (Neils)


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)
• 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)



Recently Completed Dissertations


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

• Michael Morford, "Carving for a future: Baccio Bandinelli Securing Medici Patronage through His Mutually Fulfilling Propagandistic Hercules and Cacus" 2009 (Olszewski)
• Dena Woodall, "Sharing Space: Double Portraiture in Sixteenth-Century Italy" 2009 (Olszewski)
• Karen Edwards, "Rethinking the Reinstallation of the Studiolo of Francesco I de' Medici in the Palazzo Vecchio," 2007 (Olszewski)
• Jennifer Finkel, "Michelangelo at San Lorenzo: The Tragedy of the Façade," 2005 (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

• Ellen Lippert, "George Ohr and Late 19th Century America: The Mad Potter Rehabilitated" 2009 (Adams)
• Jenni Drozdek, "Life and Chimera: Framing Modernism in Poland," 2008 (Helmreich)
• Susan Martis, "Famous and Forgotten: Rodin and Three American Contemporaries," 2005 (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" 2008 (Landau)
• Michael Weil, “Stieglitz's Dream, O'Keefe's Reality: The Stieglitz Collections in American Museums,” 2007 (Landau)
•Amy Gilman, "Organizing Art: Information Theory and Conceptual Art--A Case Study of the 'Xeroxbook' Exhibition," 2005 (Landau)



All PhD's (1970-present)