MA Art History Theses
2026
Stephanie Grimm
‘Strange Little People in Disguise’: The Animal Photography of Harry Whittier Frees
Lee Wilson
Peeling Back the Tin-Glazed Layers: an Investigation into the Role of Indigenous Artisans in Talavera Poblana
2024
Lina Zikas
CROSS-CULTURAL INFLUENCE IN RENAISSANCE VENETIAN PAINTINGS:
THE VALUE OF CARPETS AND CERAMICS
2023
Roser Boltes Beard
THE MAN-FACED BULL OF GELA
Emily Eppard
Reviving Mourning Culture: Status in Victorian Mourning Material Culture and Its Resurgence
Olivia Holly-Johnson
BES AND TAWERET: RECONSTRUCTING HOUSEHOLD RELIGION IN MIDDLE KINGDOM EGYPT
2021
Ellie Canning
Folk Art of the 19th Century Southwest: The Impact of Trade on Tradition
Megan O'Keefe
The Significance of Janus During the Augustan Principate
2019
Charlotte Taylor
Paintings of Paintings: The Rise of Gallery Paintings in Seventeenth-Century Antwerp
2017
Tammy Tran
Inception and Reception of Western Illusionistic Techniques in Qing Court Art
2015
Saul Cordona-Luciano
There Can Be Only One: Roman Conceptions of Twins in the Augustan Succession
Tina Delis
Minerva Teichert’s Jesus at the Home of Mary and Martha: Reimagining an Ordinary Heroine
Alexandra Endres
Organic Monuments: The Changing Landscapes of Augustan Rome
Kerry Longbottom
From Mountain to Mountain: Mount Fuji as International Icon
Joe Sherren
Discovering a New Identity: Influences of the German Avant-Garde on Transatlantic Modernists from the United States
2014
Bianca Rawlings
By Her Example: Exemplary Womanhood and Female Homosociality in the Matronage of Isabella d'Este and Eleonora di Toledo
Masha Stoyanova
From Archaeology to Imitation: Pompeii in the Work of Alexander Briullov
Greta Suiter
Trompe l'oeil and Vik Muniz's Verso Series: The Back of the Canvas as an Original Copy
2011
Ellen McVickar Layman
Picturing Early Ephesos: Images Imagined and Real
*Full text of theses may be found here: etd @ Mason (Electronic Theses and Dissertations) - MARS