History of Art and Architecture: Recent submissions
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An Early Muqarnas Plaster Ceiling in the Alhambra Palace, Granada
(Edinburgh University Press, 2025)This case study focuses on one of the earliest plaster muqarnas ceilings in the Alhambra. It is found in the mirador of the Partal, a building also known as the Torre de las Damas, that was built in the first decade of ... -
Cultivated and constructed memory in the Bonaria cemetery in Cagliari
(2021)A cemetery is a monument, or rather a collection of monuments, which serves to generate, reinforce, and perpetuate memories. However, that function cannot be easily defined in that it is complex, dynamic, and multifaceted. ... -
Portraits of the city : representations of Dublin in visual art - a thematic case study
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History of Art and Architecture, 2015)This thesis examines the representation of Dublin in visual art, as produced by a range of artists working in Ireland during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Thematic in its approach, the artists and artworks discussed ... -
The significance of glass stud gems in insular metalwork, 7th to 9th century
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History of Art and Architecture, 2006)Decorative glass studs appear extensively on high status insular metalwork between the seventh and twelfth centuries. Their importance is signified by the use of precious materials, attention to minute detail and prominent ... -
Insular glass and amber studs, seventh to twelfth century AD: dating, chronology and workshop practice
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History of Art and Architecture, 2017)Studs of glass and amber are found alongside panels of gold filigree and embossed silver foils, are an integral part of high status Insular metalwork created between the seventh and twelfth centuries. No over-arching survey ... -
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 ... -
Modern cemeteries in Europe and North America
(2022)Between the 1740s and the 1850s, changes in burial customs within Europe and North America had far-reaching consequences for funerary architecture. Those changes first emerged in France, Sweden, Italy, Scotland, and in the ... -
Feeling Political in Military Cemeteries: Commemoration Politics in Fascist Italy
(Palgrave, 2022)Rome, 28 October 2020: Italian neo-fascist groups meet, as they have done on this date for the last four years, at a chapel built by Benito Mussolini within Rome’s main cemetery in order to commemorate those who gave ... -
Questioning the idea of difficult heritage as applied to the architecture of Fascist Italy
(2023)Mussolini’s regime sought to change the mindset of Italians by shaping their environment through architecture and urban planning. As such, Fascism had a visible impact on Italian cities in the form of large urban projects, ... -
The Fallen Soldier as Fascist Exemplar: Military Cemeteries and Dead Heroes in Mussolini's Italy
(2022)This article aims to dissect the nature of exemplarity in Italian Fascism. The social and political structures that emerged in Fascist Italy were highly reliant on a sense of morality, largely because of the degree of ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
Redefining peace: Fascist Italy and fallen soldiers of the First World War
(2022)Italy’s Fascist regime exploited the difficulties that arose from the transition to peace after the First World War. As a highly contested event, the war destabilised Italy’s liberal state and paved the way for Benito ... -
Teaching the Difficult Heritage of Italian Fascism
(2023)In recent years, the architectural legacy and so-called ‘difficult heritage’ of Fascist Italy has become a flourishing field of research. These topics have also begun to make their way into the undergraduate classroom. ... -
Architecture, Politics and the Sacred in Military Monuments of Fascist Italy
(Bloomsbury, 2020)Benito Mussolini’s Fascist regime in Italy served its political ends through architecture that was at once sacred and modern. This chapter explores that conjunction of religion and modernity through a group of ossuaries ... -
Art and Material Culture as Instruments of Gendered Self-Fashioning in the Life of Isabel Farnesio (1692-1766)
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2024)This thesis takes as its central focus Isabel Farnesio, exploring the ways in which her engagement with art reflected and buttressed her construction of identity. Born Elisabetta Farnese, the Princess of Parma in 1692, and ... -
The life and work of Harry Clarke (1889-1931)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History of Art and Architecture, 1982)The aim of this thesis is to describe in detail the life, work and career of the artist, not only in terms of his outstanding talents as a stained glass artist and craftsman and as a book illustrator, but also as a vital ... -
The Decorative Wooden Ceilings of Nasrid Granada and the Alhambra
(2024)This article examines the role of Nasrid Granada in the development and spread of decorative wooden ceilings or artesonados in the late medieval and early modern periods. It argues that it was in the intensive building ... -
The Moxon Tennyson: Illustration and the Making of Meaning. A Contextualisation of the 1857 Illustrated Edition of Alfred Tennyson's Poems, Consisting of a Formal, Art Historical Investigation into its Designs and Engravings with a View to Assessing the Agency of the Image in the Reading of the Poetry
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2024)This doctoral thesis investigates the illustration in the illustrated edition of Alfred Tennyson's Poems (`The Moxon Tennyson') first published in 1857 by Edward Moxon. The 1857 edition contains a total of eighty poems, ... -
European Architectural Draughtsmen in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland: Training, Methods, Office Practice
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2024)The thesis examines the careers of Richard Castle and Johann Gottlieb Borlach, two German draughtsmen who joined the architectural practices of Sir Edward Lovett Pearce and James Gibbs in the first half of the eighteenth ...
