Browsing History of Art and Architecture by Sponsor "Irish Research Council (IRC)"
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14 Henrietta Street: Georgian Beginnings, 1750-1800
(Dublin City Council Culture Company, 2021)14 Henrietta Street was built in the late 1740s, during a boom in Dublin’s building industry that followed a decade of war and economic hardship at home and abroad. It formed part of a row of three houses which Luke ... -
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 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 ... -
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 Geological sublime in Victorian landscape painting
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2019)Very little has been written about the sublime in Victorian landscape painting and it is more commonly associated with the Romantic period. Nevertheless, an examination of the work of mid-nineteenth-century artists shows ... -
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 ... -
Into the Void: Text and Image in Nordic Art 1890-1915
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2019)Into the Void: Text and Image in Nordic Art 1890-1915 Kerstina Mortensen Illness, Death, and the Psychological Self; fuelled by European pessimism and the perceived degeneration of society at the turn of the 20th Century, ... -
An Irish Palladian in England, the case of Sir Edward Lovett Pearce
(Four Courts Press, 2021)This article charts Sir Edward Lovett Pearce’s complex connections from country estates in Norfolk, courtly circles in Surrey and fashionable enclaves in Mayfair to the newly-built streets of Dublin’s North City. ... -
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 ... -
The power of display: exhibition cultures and exhibited cultures in Ireland 1973-1991
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2020)This research project presents a methodological and theoretical framework for conducting research on the knowledge-making capacity of museum displays in Ireland. As active agents in the production of knowledge, museum ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
Was the carver happy while he was about it? Trinity's Museum Building and the Ruskinian principle of happiness
(Liverpool University Press, 2021-02)The Museum Building of Trinity College Dublin (1853-7), by Deane, Son & Woodward, is a seminal work of Ruskinian Gothic architecture, influencing a generation of British and Irish architects, and revolutionising Victorian ...
