Completed Dissertations
Reframing the Lands of Rum: Architecture and Style in Eastern Anatolia, 1240–1320
2012
The Structure of Lomazzo's Treatise on Painting
1964
Between Humanism and the Counter-Reformation: Villa and Villeggiatura in Renaissance Ragusa
2004
The Sculptures of Divinities from Hatra
1969
The Portrait Collection of Paolo Giovio
1991
Gustave Moreau (1826–1898) and the Afterlife of French History Painting
2007
The Late Bronze Age and Iron Age Chronology of Greek Pottery: A Critical Examination of the Epigraphical and Literay Sources for the Absolute Chronology of Greek Pottery in the Late Bronze and Iron AgesHubert Allen III
1969
An Examination of Two Twelfth-Century Centers of Byzantine Manuscript Production
1976
The Villa Medici In Rome
1971
Cutting Out the Middleman: Cypriot Itinerant Sculptors in the Early Sixth Century BC
2010
The Archaeology of Early Greek "Hero Cult"
1987
The Later Sculpture of Antonio Rossellino
1987
The Moralizing Prints of Cornelis Anthonisz
1985
Odd Man Out: Readings of the Work and Reputation of Edgar Degas
1986
French Images from the Greek War of Independence 1821–1827: Art and Politics Under the Restoration
1980
The Function of Ornament in Classical Art and Architecture (500–300 B.C.E.)
2024
The Portraits Historiés of Henri IV (1589–1610)
2002
Hagios Ioannis Prodromos Monastery on Mount Menoikeion: Byzantine Monastic Practice, Sacred Topography, and Architecture
2005
Problems Concerning the Archaic Acropolis at Athens
1979
Watteau and the North
1975
Conventional Pictures: Charles Marville in the Bois de Boulogne
2007
The Organization of Imperial Workshops during the Han Dynasty
2001
Li Kung-lin's Hsiao Ching T'u: Illustrations of the Classic of Filial Piety
1967
Gian Lorenzo Bernini: The Development of an Architectural Iconography
1975
Brescia after the League of Cambrai: Moretto, Romanino, and the Arts
1991
Whistler and the Aesthetic Movement
1959
Fire on the Mountain: A Comprehensive Study of Greek Mountaintop Sanctuaries
2015
The Terracottas of Morgantina: 400–50 B.C.
1972
Ravanica Monastery Fresco Paintings in Medieval Art of the Balkans: Interpretation of Its Iconographic and Programmatic Formulas; Their Geneses and Implications
1996
The Role of Man Ray in the Dada and Surrealist Movements
1963
Leonardo and The Borgias
2019
Recurring Figure-Types on Classical Attic Grave Stelai
1996
City Planning in Turin 1800–1865: From Napoleon I to the First Capital of Italy
1973
The Salerno Ivories
1972
The Architectural Theories of Francesco di Giorgio
1971
Momei (Ink Plum), the Emergence, Formation, and Development of a Chinese Scholar-Painting Genre
1987
Canopies: The Framing of Sacred Space in the Byzantine Ecclesiastical Tradition
2008
The Drawings of Jacopo Bertoia
1972
The Art of Confessionalism: Picturing Lutheran, Reformed, and Catholic Faith in Northwest Germany, 1580–1618
2019
Manuscript Illumination in Toledo (1446–1495): The Liturgical Books
1985
The Visible and the Legible: Paul Klee, 1916–1923
2011
Possessing the Holy: Private Churches and Private Piety in Late Antiquity
2002
The Adam Style in America: 1770–1820
1967
Tales of Gisho and Ganyo: Editor, Artist, and Audience in Japanese Picture Scrolls
1984
Li-Kung-Lin and the Long Handscroll Illustrations of T'ao Ch'ien's Returning Home
1992
Sir Joshua Reynold's Collection of Paintings
1987
Painting in Seville from Pacheco to Murillo: A Study of Artistic Transition
1964
The Country Under the City: The Symbolic Topography of the Rustic Past in Late Republican and Early Imperial Rome
2018
New Objectives: Possibilities for Painting in 1920s Germany
2024
Vision and Visionaries: 19th-Century Psychological Theory, the Occult Sciences, and the Formation of the Symbolist Aesthetic in France
1979
In Progress Dissertations
Senga Nengudi: Matter and Motherhood
2022
Opaque Surfaces and Lived Illusions: Minimalism and the Status of Painting in the 1960s
2014
Len Lye’s Cinematic Art, c. 1926–44
2020
The Carnivalesque and Belgian Modernism
2021
Staging the Social Document in the Progressive Era: Jacob Riis, Frances Johnston, Lewis Hine
2014
Black Feminist Practices of Care: Artist-Archivists Cultivating Community
2022
Texture of the Weave: Techniques for Ch’ixi Modernity in the Americas
2022
The Content of Context: Appropriation in American Art of the 1980s
2014
Wassily Kandinsky and the Vicissitudes of das Innere, 1908–1914
2014
Indigenismo
2021
Flora and Fauna in Focus: Artistic Innovations and Scientific Explorations in Nineteenth-Century Nature Paintings from Guangdong, China
2024
Transmedial Ink Rubbings and Visual Modernity in China, ca. 1820s–1930s
2022
The Art of War: Battle Paintings of New Spain, 1665–1714
2014
Plant, Animal, Object, Human: Still Life and Empire in the United States, 1815–1875
2021
Architecture and Representation in Roman Visual Culture
2023
Johann Georg Bendl: Premier Sculptor of Prague’s Early Baroque
2014
Glorious Pulpits: Flemish Preekstoelen, 1650–1750
2014
Rheno-Mosan Treasure Bindings 1150–1200 and their Histories: The Lives and Afterlives of a Type
2022
The Augustan Honorific Altar: Its Emergence, Monumentalization, and Eclipse
2014
Confronting the Past in the Critical Third Century
2017
Lettrism’s "aesthetic element"
2020
Let them rejoice / and be glad" - Sense and Sensibilia of Cross-Cultural Material Culture from the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Century Eastern Mediterranean
2024
Retrospective Styles in Roman Visual Culture
2017
Beyond the Facade: Mercantile Architecture of the German Hanse, the Dutch East India Company and the Dutch West India Company
2019
Renewed Architecture and Urbanism in Catania: The Spanish Response to Natural Disaster
2024
A New Realism: Fernand Léger, 1918–1931
2014
The Art of Vija Celmins
2014
Court and Countryside: Central Italian Villas of the Mid-Sixteenth Century
2014
“Another Reality”: Photography, Abstraction, and the Human Subject in the Postwar U.S.
2024
I am the True Vine: Acculturation, Appropriation, and Assimilation in Religious Iconography of Late Antiquity
2014
"Right Matter in the Right Place": The Paintings of Albert Pinkham Ryder
2014
Deliberate Defacement: Provocation and Response in Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts
2017
How to House a City: The Urban Densification of Ostian Insulae
2024
Painting as "Construction": Ground and Compositional Tectonics in Ferdinand Hodler's Parallelist Paintings (1889–1918)
2018
Queer Performances of Migration in German and German-Turkish Art and Film from West Germany through Reunification (1955–2000)
2020
Imperial Presence in the Villas of Roman Italy
2018
The Histories of Greek Cult Statues outside of Ritual
2014
Natural Disaster in the Atlantic World: Aesthetics, Delight, and Risk during the Long Eighteenth Century
2023
Essai sur l’architecture Chinoise: Late 18th-Century Jesuit Studies of China
2019
“Acts of Culture”: Aesthetic Affinities & Decolonial Solidarities across Twentieth-Century Goa and Mozambique
2024
Hybrid Monuments: Hybridity, Biology, and Architecture in Mid-Nineteenth Century France
2023
Susini-made: Labors of Scale and Medial-transfer in Giambologna’s Florence
2023
"When we made movies just to make them": Warhol's Films and the Surface of the 1960s
2014
Fossils for a Future Time: David Smith and the Sculpting of Traces
2022
The Polyphonic Forest: Photographing the Amazon, 1970–1989
2020
"A Virile School of Art”: History and Aesthetics of the Nsukka School (1971–1999)
2023
The MARS Group: Going Modern in Britain, 1933–1957
2014
(Ad)dressing the Gods: Fashioning Identity through the Divine in the Roman Empire
2022
THE INVENTION OF ATMOSPHERE: An Inquiry into an Art Critical Term and its Application to the Effects of Ancient Art
2022
“Living Pictures”: Pictorialist Photography and the Illustration of Fiction
2018