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