University of Pittsburgh

Graduate

Dissertations 1977 - 2009


Student

Date

Advisor

Title

Harkness, Kristen Apr-09 McCloskey The Phantom of Inspiration: Elena Polenova, Mariia Iakunchikova and the Emergence of Modern Art in Russia
Piok Zanon, Cornelie Apr-09 Weis The Sanctuary of Demeter at Pergamon: Architecture and Dynasty in the Early Attalid Capital
Rojas-Sotelo, Miguel Apr-09 Smith Cultural Maps, Networks, and Flows: The History and Impact of the Havana Bienniale 1984 to the Present
Huebner, Karla Dec-08 McCloskey Eroticism, Identity, and Cultural Context: Toyen and the Prague Avant-garde
Zitterbart, Sue Aug-08 Gerhart Kumano Mandara: Portraits, Power, and Lineage in Medieval Japan
Dimitrova, Kate Apr-08 Stones Unraveling Christ's Passion: Archbishop Dalmau de Mur, Patron and Collector, and Franco-Flemish Tapestries in Fifteenth-Century Spain
Dolan, Marion Dec-07 Stones The Role of Illustrated Aratea Manuscripts
in the Transmission of Astronomical Knowledge in the Middle Ages
Persinger, Cindy Dec-07 McCloskey The Politics of Style: Meyer Schapiro and the Crisis of Meaning in Art History
Eisman, April Aug-07 McCloskey Bernhard Heisig and the Cultural Politics of East German Art
Gunji, Naoko Aug-07 Gerhart Amidaji: Mortuary Art, Architecture, and Rites of Emperor Antoku's Temple
Butler-Palmer,
Carolyn
Aug-06 Savage &
Smith
I Won't Play Primitive to Your Modern: The Art of David Neel (Kwagiutl), 1985-2000
Rejaie, Azar Aug-06 Wilkins Defining Artistic Identity in the Florentine Renaissance: Vasari, Embedded Self-Portraits and the Patron's Role
Costa, Patrizia Apr-06 Harris &
Wilkins
The Sala delle Asse in the Sforza Castle in Milan
Tsuruya, Mayu Aug-05 Rimer War Campaign Record Painting: Japan's National Imagery of the "Holy War" (1937–1945)
Scolari, Paul Apr-05 Savage Indian Warriors and Pioneer Mothers:
American Identity and the Closing of the Frontier in Public Monuments, 1890-1930
Jiang, Yu Aug-04 Linduff Statecraft and Cemetery in Early Dynastic China: Yu Funerary Arts in the Zhou
Wu, Xiaolong Aug-04 Linduff Stylistic Traditions, Patronage and Cultural Identity in Ancient China: Bronze Artifacts of the Zhongshan State, Warring States Period (476-221BC)
Yong, Ying Aug-04 Linduff The Status of Noble Women in the Spring and Autumn Period China-Evidence from Their Burials
Rhor, Slyvia Apr-04 McCloskey Mural Painting and Public Education in Chicago, 1905-1941
Rittlemann, Leesa Apr-03 McCloskey Constructed Identities: The German Photobook from Weimar to the Third Reich
Chvostal, John Aug-02 Harris Rethinking the Reform: A Study of the Early Careers of Ludovico, Agostino, and Annibale Carraci
Pearo, Charles Apr-02 Savage Elizabeth Jane Gardner (1837-1922): Tracing the Construction of Artistic Identity
Golden, Judith Dec-01 Stones Patronage and the Saints in the Devotional Miscellany British Library MS Egerton 745
Hirayama, Mikiko Apr-01 Rimer  The Restoration of Realism:  Kojima Kikuo (1887-1950) and the Growth of Art Criticism
In Modern Japan
Sun, Yan Apr-01 Linduff  Negotiating Cultural and Political Control in North China during the Early Western Zhou Period:  Elite Art and Their Use in Mortuary Ritual and Practice in the Yan State
Wang, Ying Apr-01 Linduff  Rank and Gender in the Bone Art at Anyang, the Late Shang Center
Bertrand, Anne Dec-00 Harris  Art and Politics in Counter-Reformation Paris:  The Case of Philippe De Champaigne and his Patrons (1621 - 1674)
Gatewood, Deborah Dec-00 Linduff  Illustrating a Thirteenth Century Natural History Enclyclopedia: The Pictorial Tradition of Thomas of Cantimpré's "De Natura Rerum" and Valencienne's Ms. 320
Li, Jian-jing Dec-00 Stones  Mapping Artifcacts of the Frontier: An Approach to Study of the Yan Mountainous Area in the Eastern Zhou Period (8th - 3rd Century BC)
Elliott, Therese Aug-00 Williams &
Toker
 San Isidoro de Leon, From Palatine Chapel to Pilgrimage Church
Rode, Penny Dec-99 Linduff  The Social Position of Dian Women in Southwest China: Evidence from Art and Archaeology
McQueen, Alison Aug-98 Sheon  The Modern Artist and the Old Master:  The Reinvention of Rembrandt in France, 1850-1900
Berardi, Marianne Apr-98 Harris Science into Art: Rachel Ruysch's Early Development as a Still-Life Painter
Csorba, Mrea Dec-97 Linduff  The Identification of Non-Dymastic Burial Practice Involving a Northern Tool Tradition on China’s Dynastic Frontier
Knutson, Anne Dec-97 Savage  Breast, Brawn, and the Selling of a War:  American World War I Propaganda Posters
Schroeder, Ivy Dec-97 Savage  Minimalism for the Masses: Public Sculpture under the Federal Art in Architecture Program, 1972-1989
Crary-Ortega, Laura Apr-97 Wilkins  Constructing a National Identity: The Self-Portraits of Frida Kahlo
Craven, Jennifer Apr-97 Wilkins  A New Historical View of the Independent Female Portrait in Fifteenth-Century Florentine Painting 
Yan, Ge Apr-97 Linduff  The Coexistence of Artistic Styles and
the Pattern of Exchange: Sanxingdui During the Second Millennium BC
Gilday, Rosi Aug-96 Wilkins  Politics as Usual: Depictions of Petrach’s Triumph of Fame in Early Renaissance Florence
Brown, Mark Dec-95 Hearn  Architecture of Steel: Sight Planning and Building Type in the 19th-Century American Bessemer Steel Industry
Apel, Dora Apr-95 McCloskey
Weinstein
Cultural Battlegrounds: Visual Imagery and the Tenth Anniversary of the First World War in Weimar Germany
Ferrillo, Lynn Dec-94 Sheon  Ravier Versus the Lyonnais Tradition:  "Provincial" Art and The Avante-Garde In Nineteenth-Century France
Blackman, Susan Dec-93 Stones  The Manuscripts and Patronage of Jacques d'Armagnac, Duke of Nemours (1433-1477)
Marstine, Janet Apr-93 Wilkins  Themes of Labor and Industry in American Mural Painting, 1893-1914: The Gospel of Work
Neal, Kenneth Apr-93 Wilkins/
Linduff
 A Wise Extravaganza:  The Founding of the Carnegie International Exhibition 1895-1901
Crum, Roger Dec-92 Harris  Retrospection and Response: The Medici Palace in the Service of the Medici, c.1420-1469 
Huang, Tsui-Mei Dec-92 Linduff  The Role of Jade in Late Neolithic Culture in Ancient China: The Case of Liangzhu
Roark, Elisabeth Dec-91 Wilkins  Artist as Subject: Images of Artists in American Paintings, 1830-1860 
Peterson, Elizabeth Aug-91 Stones  The Iconography of the Historiated Psalm Initials in the Thirteenth-Century French Fully-Illustrated Psalter Group 
Kunz, Lucy Embick Apr-91 Gordan/
Linduff
 Oskar Schlemmer (1888-1943), from his Early and Student Years through the Bauhaus Exhibition of 1923: An Artist Between Tradition and Modernity 
Tise, Suzanne Apr-91 Shone  Between Art and Industry, Design Reform in France, 1850-1939 
Younger, Rina Apr-91 Wilkins  Paintings and Graphic Images of Industry in Nineteenth Century Pittsburgh: A Study in the Relationship Between Art and Industry
Mesnard, Ann Boylan
Dec-90 Williams  Manuscript Illumination at Santo Domingo de Silos 
Dwyer, Britta C. Aug-89 Wilkins  Nineteenth-Century Regional Women Artists:  The Pittsburgh School of Design for Women, 1865-1904 
Harris, Julie Ann Apr-89 Williams  The Arca of San Millan de la Cogolla
Choi, Seung Kew 1988 Linduff  Tomb Complexes of the Later Han Dynasty in the Shandong Area: Structural and Iconography Problems of Huaxiang Shima
Connelly, Francis 1987 Sheon The Origins and Development of Primitivism in Nineteenth-Century French Art and Aesthetics
Kiefer, Carol Solomon
1987 Sheon Cezanne's Magdalen: New Sources and Meanings
Dimmick, Lauren 1986 Wilkins Thomas Crawford, American Sculptor in Rome: Portrait Busts and Ideal Works
Mower, Gudrun 1986 Haskins Oriental Influnces on 12th-Century Relief Sculpture of Vladimir-Suzdal
Belnap, Gillian Bennett
1985 Wilkins The Apartment Buildings of Frederick G. Scheibler, Jr., with a Catalogue of his Multiple Residences
Pardo, Mary 1984 Wilkins &
Summers
Paolo Pino's Dialogo di Pittura: A Translation with Commentary 
Schultz, Bernard 1982 Wilkins &
Summers
Art and Anatomy in Renaissance Italy
Hellerstedt, Kahren 1981 Wilkins  The Hurdy-Gurdy from Hieronymous Bosch to Rembrandt
Raizman, David 1980 Williams   The Las Huelgas Beatus (N.Y., Morgan Library, Ms. 429) and Late Romanesque Illumination
Sieger, JoAnne 1980  'Pictor Ignotus': The Early Christian Pictorial Theme of 'Christ and the Church' and its Roots in Patristic Exegesis of Scripture
Tai, Doris Jung Chu Aug-79 Haskins  The Life and Work of T’ang-yin” (1470-1524)
Morselli, Piero 1979 Wilkins A Corpus of Tuscan Pulpits - 1400-1550
Thornton, Joy A. 1979   Renaissance Color Theory and Some Paintings by Veronese
Klukas, Arnold 1978 Hearn Altaria Superioria:  The Function and Significance of the Tribune-Chapel in Anglo Norman Architecture. A Problem in the Relationship of Liturgical Requirements and Architectural Form.
Peglau, Michael 1978 Summers Image and Structure in Vincent Van Gogh’s Late Painting
Smith, Sarah 1978 Heller  Flower Symbolism in the Paintings of Dante Gabriel Rosetti
Pepin, Patricia 1977 Hearn The Monumental Tombs of Medieval England

 

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