Art History Masters Theses
School staff and students participate in University-wide research centres such as the St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies and the Scottish Studies Network. Our principal strengths lie in the areas of medieval and Renaissance art, in European and American modernism, the history of photography, the decorative arts in Britain and Museum and Gallery Studies.
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Recent Submissions
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The Lothian picture collection : history and context
(1991-03-08) - ThesisThe historic picture collection of the earls and marquises of Lothian hung, until the middle of this century, at their Sottish seat, Newbattle Abbey (near Edinburgh). The first pictures came to the house in the mid-sixteenth ... -
The House of Dun, c.1720-c.1750 : inception, development and realisation
(1987-07) - ThesisThe House of Dun (near Montrose) was built to designs by William Adam (1689-1748) for David Erskine, Lord Dun (1673-1758), a judge of the court of session. The history of its inception is complex and intriguing. First ... -
Sir David Wilkie : his creative processes, with special reference to 'Blind man's buff' and 'Sir David Baird discovering the body of Tippoo Sahib'
(University of St Andrews, 1987) - ThesisFor most of his paintings, Wilkie made a substantial body of preparatory work, and it is chiefly through the examination of such studies that we are able to trace his creative processes. Such an exercise reveals the changes ... -
T.J. Honeyman : policies towards the popularization of art and the Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove
(1992-09-30) - ThesisThe thesis will examine Dr. T. J. Honeyman's policies towards the popularization of art and of the Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove. From 1939-1954, Honeyman was the Director of the Art Gallery and Museum, ... -
P. Signac's 'D'Eugène Delacroix au néo-impressionisme' : a translation and commentary
(1985) - Thesis‘Paul Signac's 'D'Eugène Delacroix au néo-impressionnisme' : a translation and commentary’ is, to begin with, the first English translation of the painter Signac's treatise written in defense of Neo-Impressionism in 1899. ...
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