History of Art and Architecture: Recent submissions

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    • Unfinished business: Thomas Duff of Newry 

      Casey, Christine (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 ...

    • The Museum Building's radical polychromy 

      Casey, Christine (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 ...

    • Introduction 

      Casey, Christine (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 architectural sources for the Museum Building 

      Tierney, Andrew (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. ...

    • Reviving the Artisan Sculptor: The Role of Ruskin, Science and Art Education 

      Tierney, Andrew (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, ...

    • Was the carver happy while he was about it? Trinity's Museum Building and the Ruskinian principle of happiness 

      Tierney, Andrew (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 ...

    • 14 Henrietta Street: Georgian Beginnings, 1750-1800 

      Hayes, Melanie (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 Best Address in Town: Henrietta Street, Dublin and its first residents (1720-1780) 

      Hayes, Melanie (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 ...

    • An Irish Palladian in England, the case of Sir Edward Lovett Pearce 

      Hayes, Melanie (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. ...

    • Irish book shrines: a reassessment 

      Mullarkey, Paul Anthony. (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History of Art and Architecture, 2000)
      The aim of this thesis is to attempt to determine the dates and sequence of the constructional phases of the Irish book shrines. There are eight known book shrines from Ireland, and in order of chronology they are: the ...

    • Metadata: how we relate to images 

      Mc Sweeney, Anna (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 ...

    • Studies in eighteenth-century building history 

      Gibney, Arthur. (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History of Art and Architecture, 1998)
      This study examines the constructional patterns of early Irish classical buildings from the end of the seventeenth century until the beginning of the nineteenth century. It also defines the operational patterns of artisans ...

    • Ornament and craftsmanship in the architecture of James Gibbs 

      Casey, Christine (The Georgian Group, 2019)

    • Art and the Irish Free State - visualizing nationhood (1922 - 1934) 

      SHORTALL, WILLIAM MARY (Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2020)
      This thesis examines how the Irish Free State harnessed visual art for its political purposes in the 1922-34 period. The time frame chosen for this study is purposeful. It spans two different Post-Treaty government ...

    • The power of display: exhibition cultures and exhibited cultures in Ireland 1973-1991 

      SANCHEZ-MIGALLON CANO, FERNANDO (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 ...

    • The painting techniques and workshop practices of Guido Reni 

      Brady, Aoife Frances (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History of Art and Architecture, 2017)
      The intention of this thesis is to produce an account of the workshop practices of the seventeenth-century Bolognese painter, Guido Reni. Reni was a painter of great eminence in seicento Italy; a contemporary and competitor ...

    • The Geological sublime in Victorian landscape painting 

      PRENDERGAST, GEOFFREY (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 ...

    • Architectural patronage in Ireland : the early Anglo-Norman lords 

      Unkel, Jill (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History of Art and Architecture, 2010)
      This thesis explores the relationship between patronage and architecture in medieval Ireland through an examination of the personal histories and experiences of three key patrons - Hugh de Lacy, John de Courcy and William ...

    • All There in the Weave: Duality and Unity in the Art of Richard Tuttle 

      CAMPBELL, SUSAN GRACE (Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2019)
      This investigation into the art of the seminal American Postminimalist Richard Tuttle (1941- ) responds to a 2014-15 survey show at the Tate Modern Turbine Hall and Whitechapel Gallery, London, which spotlighted the ...

    • Architecture and aspiration : building Dublin's Victorian suburbs 

      Galavan, Susan (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History of Art and Architecture, 2013)
      The project is an interdisciplinary investigation of Victorian domestic architecture in Dublin, within the broader context of the nineteenth-century city. The study is centred on the developments and acquisitions of three ...