The Social Practice of Crafting: Gender, Class, and Race in Western Craft
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View ArticleTrinity with Saints Bernardino and Donato
Trinity with Saints Bernardino and Donato Andrea della Robbia and workshop Andrea della Robbia made this glazed terracotta altarpiece for the confraternity of the Misericordia, and it was kept in...
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St. Anthony Abbot Enthroned Michele da Firenze (Michele di Niccolò Dini), attributed to Michele da Firenze specialized in terracotta -- though he is documented also as a stonecarver, only his works in...
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All About Eve and Other Stories: Representations of Eve in French Romanesque Sculpture Moubayed, Anna-Maria Traditionally unclothed, the figure of Eve made a sudden appearance on highly visible areas...
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Frieze at the Villa Medici at Poggio a Caiano Bertoldo di Giovanni and Andrea Sansovino, attributed to Lorenzo de'Medici commissioned the villa at Poggio a Caiano from Giuliano da Sangallo around 1485....
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Crucifix Donatello Over a century after this crucifix was made (c. 1408), Vasari recounted an anecdote about this crucifix. The tale goes that when Brunelleschi saw this crucifix, he said that Christ...
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Innocents Andrea della Robbia These glazed terracotta depictions of babies in various degrees of swaddling were made to fit the pre-existing roundels in Brunelleschi's famous Renaissance loggia of the...
View ArticleAnnunciation
Annunciation Francesco di Valdambrino Francesco di Valdambrino, Jacopo della Quercia, and other Sienese artists made many of these pairs of large (almost life-size) statues of the Angel Gabriel and the...
View ArticleArt Botany in Nineteenth-Century Design Reform, 1830-1865
Art Botany in Nineteenth-Century Design Reform, 1830-1865 Alford, Sarah “Art Botany in Nineteenth-Century Design Reform, 1830-1865” investigates the relationship between developments in botanical...
View ArticleCHARACTERIZATION THE LASER CLEANING EFFECTS ON SANDSTONE FROM THE CANADIAN...
CHARACTERIZATION THE LASER CLEANING EFFECTS ON SANDSTONE FROM THE CANADIAN PARLIAMENT BUILDING Hu, Yuan Laser cleaning has been used in the rehabilitation and conservation program of the Canadian...
View ArticleHeretics and Martyrs: Picturing Early Anabaptism in Visual Culture of the...
Heretics and Martyrs: Picturing Early Anabaptism in Visual Culture of the Dutch Republic Schroeder, Helena This dissertation explores the representation of early Anabaptism and Mennonitism in the...
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