PhD Theses completed in 2025
Mansi, Marco, Ketty Gottardo, Guido Rebecchini, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “Florentine Drawing Books (ca. 1500–1600) : Shaping a Landscape Tradition.” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2025., 2025.
Melin, Laura, Alixe Bovey, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “The Art of Persuasion : Usurpation and Legitimisation on Fifteenth-Century English Genealogical Rolls.” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2025., 2025.
PhD Theses completed in 2024
Pickering, Rose, David Peters Corbett, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “Édouard Vuillard’s Representations of Women, 1890-1940 : Modernity, Femininity and Proust.” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2024., 2024.
Squires, Margaret, Sussan Babaie, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “Woven Ground : The Safavid Carpet in Architectural Context, 1501–1722.” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2024., 2024.
Kessler, Carla, Lucy Bradnock, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “Unofficial Evidence : Expanding the Archives of Performance, Installation, and Socially-Engaged Art since the 1970s.” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2024., 2024.
Rodríguez, Ana Gabriela, Klara Kemp-Welch, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “Puerto Rican Graphic Arts and the Cold War : Bridging Workshops and Crossing Borders, 1950-1970.” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2024., 2024.
Denysova, Katia, Klara Kemp-Welch, Sarah Wilson, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “Fragmented Identities : Between Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Ukraine’s Early Twentieth-Century Art.” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2024., 2024.
Adams, Harry Anthony, Christine Stevenson, Esther Chadwick, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “George Dance the Younger’s Urban Planning for the City of London, 1768–1816.” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2024., 2024.
Fabiano, Giosuè, Joanna Cannon, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “Natural Lighting, Art and Temporal Experience : In Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Italian Churches (c.1100-1427).” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2024., 2024.
Darnell, Lorne Girard, Joanna Woodall, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “The Pride and Beauty of This Land : Building Holland’s Identity through the Architectural Imagery of Pieter Saenredam.” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2024., 2024.
Ohl, Lydia, Wenny Teo, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “Before and after : Cai Guo-Qiang’s Practice of Creation through Destruction Inselected Projects Produced between the Retrospectives I Want to Believe (2008) and Odyssey and Homecoming (2020).” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 20., 2024.
Gatta, Lorenzo, Joanna Woodall, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “Jesuit Confessionals in the Early Modern Southern Netherlands : Design, Space, Materiality.” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2024., 2024.
Giusa, Anna Chiara, Guido Rebecchini, Tanja Michalsky, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “The Politics of Style : Artistic ‘Bilingualism’ in Messina during the First Half of the Sixteenth Century.” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2024., 2024.
Jenkins, Laura C, Katie Scott, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “Civilising Decoration : French Interiors in the American Gilded Age.” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2024., 2024.
David, Alice, Klara Kemp-Welch, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “Cultures of Resistance : Graphic Art and the Avant-Garde in 1970s’ Latin America.” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2024., 2024.
Morale, Giulia, Sarah Wilson, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “Sicilian Abstraction and Transnational Modernism in Italy and beyond (1950s-1970s).” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2024., 2024.
Kazarian, Choghakate, David Peters Corbett, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “Unquicken the Pace : Albert Pinkham Ryder’s Ripening Paintings.” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2024., 2024.
Guo, Sophie Xiaofei, Wenny Teo, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “Bio-Imaginaries : The Art of China and Its Diasporas in the Age of Biotechnology.” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2024., 2024.
Chirumbolo, Matteo, Scott Nethersole, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “Family Lexicon : The Patronage of Girolamo Basso and Domenico Della Rovere between Turin, Savona, Loreto And Rome, 1477-1507.” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2024., 2024.
Evans-Hill, Lily Kathleen, Catherine Grant, Althea Greenan, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “Feminist Group-Work : The Emergence of the Women Artists Slide Library, 1970-1982.” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2024., 2024.
PhD Theses completed in 2023
Cummings, Andrew J, Wenny Teo, Sook-Kyung Lee, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “Alien : Queerness, Globalisation, and Contemporary ‘Asian’ Art, 2013-2023.” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2023., 2023.
Pu, Lan, Christian Luczanits, Stephen H Whiteman, Giovanni Verri, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “Connections in the Making and Meaning of Bhutanese Wall Painting : Tango Utse, 17th – 20th Century.” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2023., 2023.
Lewandowski, Helen, Julian Stallabrass, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “The Aesthetics and Distribution of Photojournalism, 2000 to 2020.” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2023., 2023.
Rubin, Saskia, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “Status and Statehood in the Art and Literature of Richelieu’s Circle, 1628–1656.” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2023., 2023.
Menon, Sreekumar, Aviva Burnstock, Emily Howe, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “Early Period Buddhist Wall Paintings of Ladakh from the Eleventh to the Early Thirteenth Century : Materials, Techniques and Conservation Implications.” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2023., 2023.
Wilmott, Francesca, Jo Applin, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “Far out California : A New Regionalism, 1966–1976.” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2023., 2023.
Feeke, Stephen, David Peters Corbett, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “Midlife Materiality : Barbara Hepworth and Bronze.” Dissertation (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2023., 2023.
Lane, Teresa, John Lowden, Alixe Bovey, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “‘A Sublime Mystery’ : The Trinity in the Visual, Intellectual and Devotional Culture of England, 950–1150.” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2023., 2023.
PhD Theses completed in 2022
D’Antone, Ambra, Gavin Parkinson, Matthew Gale, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “Translating Modernity : Surrealism of the Levant.” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2022., 2022.
Jones, Olivia, Caroline Arscott, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “‘None Sees Here but the Pure Alone’ : Crystal Balls and Queer Desire in the Oeuvre of Simeon Solomon (1840-1905).” Dissertation (M.A.)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2022., 2022.
Dhar, Sanjay, Christine Stevenson, Emily Howe, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “Assessing and Managing Risk : Towards a Framework for Preventive Conservation of Buddhist Wall Paintings in the Leh Valley of Ladakh.” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2022., 2022.
Mackelaitė, Austėja, Joanna Woodall, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “Encounters through Drawing : Three Netherlandish Artists Responding to Ancient Sculpture in Sixteenth-Century Rome.” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2022., 2022.
Flory, Nicholas Piers, Susie Nash, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “’Pro Æterna Salute Dominæ Ducissæ’ : The Carthusian Patronage of Isabella of Portugal and Margaret of York, Duchesses of Burgundy, 1430-1503.” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2022., 2022.
Corbett, Cathy, Christopher Green, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “A Russian Sculptor Abroad : Ossip Zadkine and His Works in Wood, 1908-1937.” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2022., 2022.
Christensen, Emily, Gavin Parkinson, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “Refiguring Kandinsky : Strategies of Orientalism in Wassily Kandinsky’s Experimental Abstraction.” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2022., 2022.
Rava, Amarilli, Emma Richardson, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “Assessment of Organic Adhesives, Using the Examples of Gelatine and JunFunori : Penetration, Deposition and Response to Humidity.” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2022., 2022.
Chohan, Jasmine Kaur, Julian Stallabrass, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “La Bienal de La Habana : The Rise of the Collaterals.” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2022., 2022.
Geddes, June, Sarah Wilson, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “Richard Demarco : Networking Scotland to the International Avant-Garde.” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2022., 2022.
Pierce, Chelsea, Sarah Wilson, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “The Gorgona Paradigm : Private Art Practice in Socialist Yugoslavia.” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2022., 2022.
Payet, Erica, Julian Stallabrass, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “Photography in the First Gulf War (1990–91).” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2022., 2022.
Zamboni, Alice, Joanna Woodall, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “Bringing the Muscles to Life : Artists, Anatomists and the Negotiation of the Graphic Anatomical Image in the Dutch Republic.” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2022., 2022.
Shadwick, Louis, David Peters Corbett, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “Memory and Myth : Edward Hopper and American Identity, 1882-1940.” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2022., 2022.
Scantlebury, Matilda, Jo Applin, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “Being Together with Others : Queer American Art and the Family, 1990-2020.” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2022., 2022.
Noelle, Alexander J, Scott Nethersole, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “The Life, Death, and Afterlife of Giuliano de’ Medici in Art and Literature (1450–1600).” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2022., 2022.
PhD Theses completed in 2021
Subelytė, Gražina, Parkinson Gavin, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “Kurt Seligmann : Surrealism and Occultism.” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2021., 2021.
O’Brien, Janet, Sussan Babaie, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “Nādir Shāh : The Emergence of Royal Portraiture and a New Body Politic in Eighteenth-Century Iran.” Dissertation (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2021., 2021.
Merkling, Emma, Caroline Arscott, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “Imponderable : Physics, Mathematics, Psychical Research, and Evelyn De Morgan’s Spiritualist Art, 1885–1910.” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2021., 2021.
Concin, Adriana, Guido Rebecchini, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “The Habsburg-Medici Wedding of 1565 : Art, Diplomacy, and Display.” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2021., 2021.
Bondini, Saida, Nicolas Bock, Guido Rebecchini, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “Urban and Social Spaces : Art, Architecture, and Family Patronage in Bologna (1470-1520).” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2021., 2021.
Amato, Silvia Rita, Aviva Burnstock, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “The Contribution of Reflectance Imaging Spectroscopy and Macro X-Ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy in the Investigation of Paintings by Édouard Manet from the Courtauld Gallery.” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2021., 2021.
Harrison, Madeleine, David Peters Corbett, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “Aaron Douglas’ ‘Art Era,’ 1925-34.” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2021., 2021.
Crosland, Margaret Susannah, Alixe Bovey, Susie Nash, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “Servans Tous Les Jours : Devotion, Interaction, and Familial Piety in the Grandes Heures of Philip the Bold.” Dissertation (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2021., 2021.
Sanders, Laura, Joanna Woodall, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “The Image of the Tower in Early Modern Antwerp.” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2021., 2021.
PhD Theses completed in 2020
Stolyarov, Denis, Sarah Wilson, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “(Post)-Soviet Art in the Era of Wild Capitalism, 1985-1995.” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2020., 2020.
Beltrami, Costanza Ludovica, Tom Nickson, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “Juan Guas and Gothic Architecture in Late-Medieval Spain : Collaborations, Networks, Geographies.” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2020., 2020.
Leam, Sooyoung, Sarah Wilson, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “Lee Seung-Taek : The Making and Unmaking of Sculpture in Contemporary Korean Art.” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2020., 2020.
Biedarieva, Svitlana, Klara Kemp-Welch, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “Challenging the Legacies of the Olympics : Cultural Programmes of Mexico ‘68 and Moscow ‘80.” Dissertation (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2020., 2020.
Dalvit, Giulio, Scott Nethersole, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “Rethinking Lorenzo Di Pietro, Known as Vecchietta (Siena, 1410-80).” Dissertation (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2020., 2020.
Delorey, Amanda Kate, Julian Stallabrass, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “Modernist Planning and Informal Settlements : The History of Social Housing Architecture in Mexico City.” Dissertation (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2020., 2020.
Godetzky, Albert, Joanna Woodall, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “Strength and Sinews : ‘Haarlem Mannerism’ and the Emergence of a Dutch Body Politic, 1585-1595.” Dissertation (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2020., 2020.
Gurevich, Sofia, Klara Kemp-Welch, Matthew Gale, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “Soviet Book Design and the World of Art Circle, 1917–1930.” Dissertation (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2020., 2020.
Morris, Natasha Anne, Sussan Babaie, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “Lions and Sons : The Masculine Image in Qajar Iran (1789 –1925).” Dissertation (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2020., 2020.
Ayres de Campos, Miguel, John Lowden, Alixe Bovey, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “Mirabilia Depicta : Image and Imagination in the Anglo-Saxon Wonders of the East.” Dissertation (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2020., 2020.
Röstel, Alexander, Scott Nethersole, and 鶹TVվ of Art. “Artistic Patronage Networks in Fifteenth-Century Florence : The Corbinelli and Gondi Altarpieces.” Thesis (PhD)–University of London (鶹TVվ of Art), 2020., 2020.