Search for dissertations about: "portraiture"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 swedish dissertations containing the word portraiture.

  2. 1. Claiming Rome : Portraiture and Social Identity in the Eighteenth Century

    Author : Sabrina Norlander; Solfrid Söderlind; Shearer West; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Art history; portraiture; new mythology; Grand Tour; gender roles; eighteenth-century Rome; portrait display; reception; Pompeo Batoni; Doria Pamphilj; Barberini; Pallavicini-Rospigliosi.; Konstvetenskap; Art; Konstvetenskap;

    Abstract : This study examines two groups of European nobility, the Roman aristocracy and the British Grand Tour travellers, specifically, their attitudes towards Antiquity as expressed in portraits produced in eighteenth-century Rome. Antiquity in this study connotes Ancient Rome, particularly its political system, religious system and architecture, and assumes it to be the quintessence of a Western mythology that had supported the legitimation of the ruling classes since the Middle Ages. READ MORE

  4. 2. Becoming Artists : Self-Portraits, Friendship Images and Studio Scenes by Nordic Women Painters in the 1880s

    Author : Carina Rech; Sabrina Norlander Eliasson; Jessica Sjöholm Skrubbe; Martin Olin; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Nordic art; nineteenth-century art; women artists; self-portrait; portraiture; friendship; studio; collaboration; emulation; letters; epistolary; self-fashioning; feminist art history; Opponents; Salon; Julia Beck; Hanna Hirsch-Pauli; Bertha Wegmann; konstvetenskap; Art History;

    Abstract : The aim of this dissertation is to analyze how Nordic women artists negotiated their professional identity in painting in the 1880s, focusing on the genres of the self-portrait, the friendship image and the studio interior. It investigates how artistic identity is fashioned through self-representation, collaboration with a colleague and in interaction with the interior of the studio as a constitutive space of artistic professionalism. READ MORE

  5. 3. The Art of Pleasing the Eye : Portraits by Nicolas de Largillierre and Spectatorship with Taste for Colour in the Early Eighteenth Century

    Author : Roussina Roussinova; Margaretha Rossholm Lagerlöf; Sabrina Norlander Eliasson; Tomas Björk; Martin Olin; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; spectatorship; pleasure; meaning; body and mind; senses; illusion; imagination; touch; colour; attention; attraction; detail; display; portraiture; art theory; amateur; conversation; honnêteté; performativity; Nicolas de Largillierre; Roger de Piles; konstvetenskap; Art History;

    Abstract : This study examines the interaction between portraits by the exponent of French colourist painting Nicolas de Largillierre (1656–1745) and elite spectatorship in the early eighteenth century as enactment of the idea of painting as an art of pleasing the eye. As developed in the theory of art of Roger de Piles (1635–1709), the idea of painting as an art of pleasing the eye coexisted with the classicist view, which in turn emphasised the potential of painting to communicate discursive meanings and hence to engage the mind. READ MORE

  6. 4. Material Worlds : Queen Hedwig Eleonora as Collector and Patron of the arts

    Author : Lisa Skogh; Peter Gillgren; Mårten Snickare; Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; patronage; collecting; political culture; 17th century; portraiture; pretiosa; libraries; knowledge; wonders; Kunstkammer; Gottorf; Dresden; Germany; Sweden; Hedwig Eleonora; absolutism; royal collections; networks; Klöcker Ehrenstrahl; Ulriksdal; Drottningholm; Gripsholm; konstvetenskap; Art History;

    Abstract : The thesis portrays the role of Hedwig Eleonora (1636-1715) dowager queen of Sweden, born princess of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf, as a patron and collector. Her role is analysed as to have played a great part in the Swedish cultural political visual production before and during the age of absolutism in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century. READ MORE

  7. 5. Portraits of Automated Facial Recognition : On Machinic Ways of Seeing the Face

    Author : Lila Lee-Morrison; Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES;

    Abstract : This book offers a unique analysis of the use of the automated facial recognition algorithms that are increasingly intervening in our society from a critical visual culture studies perspective. The discussion focuses on the visuality of automated facial recognition and its designed algorithms as a case study in machinic vision and its concurrent modes of perception. READ MORE