This research project makes use of photographic art practice as an investigative tool, through which a variety of strategies have been employed in order to picture the traditional photographic portrait studio. The thesis provides both a context within which to understand this ar…
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This thesis uses the photographic portrait as an example of contemporary art practice to examine developments in aesthetic sensibility and constructions of meaning with particular address to ineffable qualities in both the subject and in the photograph. It examines the contribut…
This thesis examines the role played by Titian’s three portraits of Pope Paul III, Portrait of Pope Paul III without his Cap (1543), Portrait of Pope Paul III with Camauro (1545–46), and Portrait of Pope Paul III with his Grandsons (1545–46), in creating his persona of reformer …
This dissertation examines the portraits of the Ottoman sultan Mahmud II (r. 1808–1839) as part of a campaign launched by the ruler and his propagandists to support sweeping reform efforts in military and civil spheres. The paintings and prints at the center of this study—to whi…