Concise, critical reviews of books, exhibitions, and projects in all areas and periods of art history and visual studies

Early Medieval/Romanesque/Gothic Art
Dissertations Completed by Subject, 2010

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Barrett, Catherine, “Cordes and the Intersections of Identity” (University of Washington, M. Clausen)

Bass, Caitlin, “Home Behind the Wall: The Living Spaces of Late Medieval German Convents” (Brown, S. Bonde)

Cree, Sarah, “Taddeo di Bartolo and the Uses of the Past in Early Quattrocento Painting” (Yale, A. Dunlop)

Crites, Danya A., “From Mosque to Cathedral: The Social and Political Significations of Mudejar Architecture in Late Medieval Seville” (Iowa, R. Bork)

Fozi, Shirin, “The Body Recast and Revived: Figural Tomb Sculpture in the Holy Roman Empire, 1080–1160” (Harvard, J. Hamburger)

Katz, Melissa, “Interior Motives: The Vierge ouvrante/Triptych Virgin in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia” (Brown, S. Bonde)

Kelley, Emily, “Piety and the Merchant Patron: A Case Study of Merchant Patronage in Early Sixteenth-Century Burgos” (Cornell, C. Robinson)

Kozlowski, Sarah Kathryn, “Convergences of Portrait, Icon, and Tomb in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Naples” (Yale, C. Wood)

Labunski, Meagan Green, “Friars in the City: Mendicant Architecture and Pious Practice in Medieval Verona, ca. 1220–ca. 1375” (Duke, C. Bruzelius)

Locke Perchuk, Alison, “In the Image of Elijah: The Artistic Foundations of Community in a Medieval Italian Monastery” (Yale, R. Nelson)

Milanovic, Ljubomir, “The Politics of Translatio: The Visual Representation of the Translation of Relics in the Early Christian and Medieval Period, the Case of St. Stephen” (Rutgers, A. St. Clair Harvey)

Seasonwein, Johanna, “The Nursing Queen: Sculptures of the Virgo Lactans in Late Medieval France” (Columbia, S. Murray)

Silvers, Holly, “Repulsive Rhetoric: Profanity and the Visual Vernacular of Village Churches in Romanesque Saintonge” (Indiana, D. Reilly)

Tade, Jessica, “The Oeuvre of Gislebertus and Sculptural Practice in Saint-Lazare at Autun” (UC Santa Barbara, C. E. Armi)

Webb, Karen, “Medieval Manuscripts, Architectural Structures, and Their Relationships” (Pittsburgh, M. A. Stones)

Whatley, Laura, J., “Localizing the Holy Land: The Visual Culture of Crusade in England, ca. 1140–1400” (UIUC, A. Hedeman)

Whittington, Karl, “The Body-Worlds of Opicinus de Canistris, Artist and Visionary (1296–ca. 1354)” (UC Berkeley, W. Davis)