History of Art and Architecture
Academic/Research Units within this Academic/Research Unit
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History of Art & Architecture: Building Catholic Ireland Collection (Digital Image Collection)
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History of Art and Architecture (Live Theses)
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History of Art and Architecture (Scholarly Publications)
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History of Art and Architecture (Theses and Dissertations)
History of Art (Theses and Dissertations)
Recent Submissions
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Costume and Practice: Evolution in Design and Use of the Chancellor's and Pro-Chancellor's Robes at the University of Dublin, Trinity College (1800-2020)
(2023)The University of Dublin is the degree-awarding body for Trinity College, Dublin and maintains a long tradition of academic dress and ceremonial. Commencements are formal meetings of the Senate chaired by the Chancellor ... -
The Testament of Stone: Understanding the past, present, and future cultural significance of the long lives of the Irish high crosses.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2024)The Irish High Crosses are a unique group of monuments that, relative to their size, convey a exceptional amount of information about the early Christian period in which they were made. Over the past one hundred and fifty ... -
MIDDLE EASTERN CRAFTS: YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW, VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM, OCTOBER 11-12, 2018
(2020)Craft is having a moment – the international market for contemporary craft is more buoyant than ever, with record trade figures and increasingly high-profile exhibitions and publications.1 But contemporary craft from the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Perceptions and uses of Gothic in Irish domestic and ecclesiastical architecture, 1800 - 1815
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History of Art and Architecture, 2016)Perceptions of Gothic in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, and its use in domestic and ecclesiastical architecture in Ireland, 1800-1841' is a study of meaning in Gothic revival architecture. The thesis ... -
Sarah Cecilia Harrison (1863-1941): her art and politics, a critical examination
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2024)This thesis critically assesses Sarah Cecilia Harrison (1863-1941) as an artist, a political activist and a social and cultural campaigner. In each of these roles she was an instigator rather than follower. The account ... -
Four wooden ceilings from the Torrijos Palace, Toledo
(2023)Prior to the demolition around 1917 of the late fifteenth-century palace built in Torrijos, near Toledo, for Gutierre de Cárdenas, a prominent soldier and courtier, and his wife, Teresa Enríquez, four intricate painted ... -
Building the Great Northern Railway (Ireland): Design, Communication and Construction
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2024)On Wednesday 17 December 1834 the first passenger railway line in Ireland opened. Over the next four decades thousands of miles of railway lines were constructed across the island, creating an expansive network of connectivity. ... -
The Topographical Prints of Louis Meunier: A Study of a Representation of Spain in the Seventeenth Century and its Extended Afterlife
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2024)This thesis examines the representation of Spanish and Portuguese cities in an album of topographical views made by Louis Meunier, a printmaker operating in Paris in the second half of the seventeenth century. The set of ... -
Dublin Castle Chapel before 1807
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Permanent expressions of piety: the secular and the sacred in later medieval stone sculpture
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Illuminating Irish American Identity: Harry Clarke Stained Glass Studios' Ecclesiastical Commissions in the USA c.1950-1970
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2023)Clarke Studios was established in 1930 and operated as a business making stained glass for more than forty years after the death of its founder, the artist Harry Clarke (1889-1931). In that period windows were made for ... -
Rethinking the Borders of Islamic art: Paterna ceramics from the fourteenth century to today
(Equinox Publishing Limited, 2022)Recent scholarship in Islamic art and architecture has seen a growing interest in art from the borderlands – the borders of empires, peoples, religions and practices. In this context, the art of Muslim majority populations ... -
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 ... -
Roderic O'Conor 1860-1940
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History of Art and Architecture, 1992)This study documents the life and work of the Irish artist Roderic O'Conor, placing his drawings, prints, and paintings in their appropriate historical context. -
Representations of music in nineteenth-century French art
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2021)In the abundant production shown in Salons - official and non-official - during the Second Empire and the Third Republic until 1900, a number of paintings have music as their theme. They form occasional clusters, corresponding ... -
The Architecture of the Church of St Patrick and St Brigid
(2021)The post-famine period saw a boom in Catholic church building across Ireland. County Kildare, as home to Maynooth College (1795; 1845) and Clongowes Wood College (1814), was at the forefront of Catholic religious revival ... -
The Georgian Castle at Clongowes
(2020)The history of the castle at Clongowes is long and complicated, with several phases of reconstruction and expansion. The imposing facades overlook the long avenue to the front, the pleasure grounds to the north and the ...