Concise, critical reviews of books, exhibitions, and projects in all areas and periods of art history and visual studies

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Dissertations in Progress by Subject, 2022

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Ahn, Jaeun Cabelle, "Multiple Exposures: Drawings, Displays, and their Spaces in Eighteenth-century France" (Harvard University, E. Lajer-Burcharth) 

Archie, Ellen, " Entangling Dionysos: Abundance Decoration in 4th-2nd centuries BCE Northern Greece" (Emory University, B. Wescoat)

Edwards, Jacqueline, "Painting Saints and Men: Art and Dress in El Greco’s Toledo, 1577–1614" (Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), A. Wunder, J. Ball)

Forniotis, Brittany, "The Architecture of Healing: Hospitals in the Mediterranean (600–1700) (Duke University, S. Galletti)

Galardi, Elisa, "The Relief Icon in Byzantium In progress" (University of Pennsylvania, I.Drpić)

Gittleman, Elena, "Second Act: Legacies of Ancient Theater in Middle Byzantine Visual Culture (ca. 843–1204)" (Bryn Mawr College, A. Walker, H. King)

Gonzalez, Ella, "Bearing Weight: Caryatids and Women's Labor in Ancient Greek Art" (Johns Hopkins University, J. Stager, M. Feldman)

Hogan, Dana V., "Expanding Worlds: Italian Women Artists and Cross-Cultural Encounters in Early Modernity" (Duke University, S.Galletti)

Hutchingame, Laura, "Ship Hull Ceilings in the Upper Adriatic: Wood, Labor, and Craft, 1300–1450" (University of California, Los Angeles, B. Wilson)

Jensen, Claire, "Annunziata Art: The Medieval Kingdom of Naples Beyond Conquest" (University of Toronto, J. Caskey)

Kylindreas, Miltiadis, "Building up the Classical Past: The Politics of Architectural Reconstruction in Modern Greece" (Emory University, B. Wescoat)

LaGatta, Anne, " 'The Most Beautiful and Enduring Images': Visual Culture in the Principate of Tiberius (14–37 CE)" (University of Southern California, J. Pollini)

Lash, Drew, "Painting Spanish Faith: Intertextuality in Old Testament Images in Seventeenth-Century Spain and New Spain" (University of California, Los Angeles, Black. C.V.)

Lee, Sunghoon, "Escala: Art, Scale, and Geographic Vastness in the Habsburg Spanish Empire" (University of Pennsylvania, D. Kim)

Mackin, Elliot, "Seeing Christ Queerly: Beauty, Power, and the Body of Christ in Byzantine Art" (University of Pennsylvania, I. Drpić)

Margulis, Noah, "The Proof State of Art: Printmaking and the Graphic Arts in Rome, 1520–1550" (New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, A. Nagel)

Minden, Ariella, "In Dialogue: Medial Thinking in Bolognese Printmaking, 1500–1530" (University of Toronto, E. Levy)

Mohr, Emily C., "Assembling Women: Performance and Community in the Tanagra Figurines"(Duke University, S. Dillon)

Neill, Elizabeth, "Ancient Geographies, Modern Travels: Provenance(s) of Imagined Creatures on Archaic Painted Pottery (660–480 BCE)" (Boston University, S. R. Martin)

Qian, Wenyi, "The Artisanal Interface: The Art of Pietre Dure Tables in Early Modern Italy, 1550–1660" (University of Toronto, P. Sohm)

Racaniello, Kris Hahn, "The Power of Material Narratives: Constructing Shrines Across the Pyrenees Over the Long Twelfth Century" (Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), C. Hahn, J. Ball)

Rose, Shannah, "The Codex Ríos and the Reception of Mesoamerican Pictography in Early Modern Italy" (New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, A. Nagel, E.J. Sullivan)

Salem, Rebecca, A., "The Temporality of Greek Temples: Diachronic Building in the Archaic and Classical Periods" (New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, C. Marconi, J. N. Hopkins)

Thompson, Peter, "Rendering the Past in the Archaic Greek World" (New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, C. Marconi)

Truc, Alice, "Opus International: histoires plurielles de la critique d'art. Proposition d'édition critique d'une revue d'art historique en contexte numérique" (University of Montreal, N. Thély, E. Château-Dutier)

Zigomalas, Alexandra, "Bernini's England: The Artistic Exchange between London and Rome, 1625–1700" (Emory University, S. McPhee)