Search for dissertations about: "paintings"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 28 swedish dissertations containing the word paintings.

  2. 1. Zhou Chen : the life and paintings of a Ming professional artist

    Author : Mette Siggstedt; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES;

    Abstract : Zhou Chen played a major role in the development of professional painting in Suzhou during middle Ming. The thesis presents Zhou’s biography, focussing on his relations to his contemporaries and on the conditions of professional artists in general. READ MORE

  4. 2. Wall Paintings, Fayum Portraits and Polychrome Statuary. Conservation, Materials and Context

    Author : Agneta Freccero; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY;

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  5. 3. The Church Paintings of Gottfired Hendzschel in Norway - Past and Future Conservation

    Author : Tine Frøjsaker; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

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  6. 4. Raphael's Madonna of the Goldfinch, Copies and the Abbey of Vallombrosa Reconsidered, appendix: 1867-70, the Vallombrosa Arguments in Letters and Publications

    Author : Måns Holst-Ekström; Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Raphael; Vallombrosa; copy;

    Abstract : An investigation concerning a group of paintings sharing a common motif. The motif is the Madonna with the infants Jesus and Saint John, the Infant Jesus holding a goldfinch. Rapahel's version of the painting, in the Uffizi, is discussed in relation to a similar version of the motif that appeared in Sweden in the 1990's.. READ MORE

  7. 5. 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