Browsing History of Art and Architecture (Scholarly Publications) by Date of Publication
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Permanent expressions of piety: the secular and the sacred in later medieval stone sculpture
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Visualizing Archaeologies: A Manifesto
(2007)Is archaeology a science? Is archaeology a humanity? What are the politics of spectatorship and archaeological representation? These initial thoughts form the basis for our archaeological explorations. Within current ... -
St Patrick's Well
(TRIARC and Associated Editions, 2008)Just off the tree-lined pathway to the Provost’s House Stables is a narrow vault that extends under Nassau Street, close to its junction with Dawson Street. Housed within this vault is a well, reputed to be St Patrick’s ... -
From Subversion to Celebration: The Emergence of a domestic avant garde in contemporary Irish Art
(2008)Although the domestic has been critically observed in relation to British artists in the 1990s, it has not been considered cross-culturally in terms of Irish artists.1 Considering many female Irish artists were coming ... -
Dublin Castle Chapel before 1807
(Office of Public Works, 2015) -
Versions and visions of the Alhambra in the nineteenth-century Ottoman world
(2015)The Alhambra as a source of inspiration for Western architects in the nineteenth century is well known and has been thoroughly documented. But “alhambresque” style was not just an Orientalist exoticism in the West. It ... -
Il fascismo, la Grande Guerra e i monumenti ai caduti
(2017)L’ossario di Redipuglia in Friuli raccoglie le salme di oltre centomila soldati italiani che caddero combattendo al fronte (Dogliani 1996; Fabi 2002; Fiore 2003; Nicoloso 2012, 94–7). È il più grande luogo di sepoltura ... -
Redipuglia and the dead
(2017)Over a hundred thousand bodies are buried in the ossuary of Redipuglia. Created in north- eastern Italy under the fascist state in 1935–8, it is the largest burial site of the Great War worldwide.It encloses the remains ... -
Mudéjar and the Alhambresque: Spanish Pavilions at the Universal Expositions and the Invention of a National Style
(2017)Spain's complex relationship with its Islamic architectural heritage was brought into particular focus through the prism of its national pavilions that were built for the Universal Expositions of the late nineteenth and ... -
Marcello Piacentini: A case of controversial heritage
(2018)As the most prominent architect and urban designer of Italy’s fascist regime, Marcello Piacentini (1881–1960) left an indelible mark on numerous cities across Italy. Nonetheless, his reception has been marred by controversy. ... -
Metadata: how we relate to images
(Lethaby Gallery, London, 2018)One might justly claim that metadata is ubiquitous, structuring our interactions with the world in manifold ways. As data about other data, metadata describes and classifies information; among its best-known applications ... -
The architectural sources for the Museum Building
(Four Courts Press, 2019)If the purpose of this research project, as stated by Christine Casey at the start of this book, is to highlight the process of making (rather than meaning), then we must query the ‘making’ that went into the design itself. ... -
The Museum Building's radical polychromy
(Four Courts Press, 2019)The radical polychromy of the Museum Building at Trinity College Dublin did not emerge Minerva-like from the brow of Benajmin Woodward, but rather from an imbrication of architecture, geology and engineering ... -
Reviving the Artisan Sculptor: The Role of Ruskin, Science and Art Education
(Four Courts Press, 2019)On meeting the O’Sheas in Oxford Ruskin saw them as the ideal of the savage northern workmen, obstinate and generous who by natural instinct brought a fluidity, freshness and life to their work. Dr Henry Acland, ... -
Ornament and craftsmanship in the architecture of James Gibbs
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Introduction
(Four Courts Press, 2019)The Museum Building of Trinity College Dublin is an acknowledged masterpiece of Gothic revival architecture and the single-most influential building of the Victorian period in Ireland. Its genesis and erection ... -
The Best Address in Town: Henrietta Street, Dublin and its first residents (1720-1780)
(Four Courts Press, 2020)In the early years of the 1730s two major building projects were taking place in Dublin city, one in the public sphere, the other in the domestic arena. Both stood as very visible manifestations of the wealth and ambition ... -
Unfinished business: Thomas Duff of Newry
(2020)The Festschrift is the friend of unfinished research relegated to shelf or drawer, too hard-won and engaging to be forgotten. The date ‘24th April 1985’ is inscribed on a manuscript transcription made at ...
