Discovering a history : the school of art at the University of Denver

Discovering a History: The School of Art at the University of Denver explores the early history of art education in Denver, and the significance of visual art education at the University of Denver within that history beginning in 1865, when the first classes in art were offered, and ending in 1929 when the University acquired the Chappell School of Art—an independent art school—and appointed Vance Kirkland as director. This paper also explores competing art institutions, which at times posed great hindrances to the University. Further, it illustrates how the artists who taught at the University of Denver School of Art, such as Ida De Steiguer, Preston Powers, Emma Richardson Cherry, and Henry Read, were amongst the great contributors to Denver’s burgeoning artistic culture.

The Dragon Tree in the Age of Exploration

he dragon tree, a peculiar species native to Socotra, southwest Arabia, east Africa, Morocco, Macaronesia, and the Canary islands, possesses an intriguing iconographic history. The first wave of images date from 1470 to 1550, beginning with Martin Schongauer’s 1470 engraving of The Flight into Egypt. These depictions portray the dragon tree in the context of a handful of biblical themes and with apparent symbolic import. After 1550, religious images of the dragon tree vanish abruptly and are replaced by representations of an empirical nature. Dragon tree iconography is notable for the extent to which it did and did not leave an impression on European art. In this paper I examine the inability of dragon tree images to gain the momentum required to propel them into European iconography more permanently, and the forces that may account for the abrupt change from biblical to botanical renderings.

Sights for Sounds: The Roles of Illuminated Initials in Italian Music Manuscripts

The scholarship on illuminated initials is substantial, yet there is a significant absence of information when discussing the initials found in music manuscripts specifically. In this paper, I endeavor to supplement the current scholarship by focusing my research on music manuscripts produced in Italy between 1250 and 1500 A.D. in order to provide examples of the relationships between image, music, and text in the context of use. I use mainly iconographic research methods, though a considerable amount of background information is reliant on the research of other authors in the field of medieval philosophy and theology. Through my research I have concluded that the use of illuminated initials in medieval Italian music manuscripts enhances the function of the manuscript by providing another layer of understanding which audience members could use to aid them in their meditation, prayer, and in the performance of the music.

Creating Beautiful Art: Challenging Comfort

Creating Beautiful Art: Challenging Comfort investigates the notion of beauty and its relationship to art while asking what is and can be art. Throughout the work, research supports the concept of beauty elevating art even with the use of atypical, unconventional, or mundane materials. Direct attention is given to this idea by completion of a Creative Capstone Project. I incorporated aesthetics with unconventional materials in order to challenge viewing comfort, as well as added value to the existing body of knowledge concerning beauty in contemporary art. The reflective section summarizes the importance of unconventional materials creating beauty in art in order to progress itself linearly by creating and reinventing the new.

Some considerations of hazards in the use of lasers for artistic displays /

Mode of access: Internet.

Les antiquités, les tableaux et les objets d'art de la collection Alfred Ritleng à Strasbourg /

The collection was sold May 14, 1906 at an auction held at Château des Rohan in Strassburg.

Modern chromatics, with applications to art and industry.

Series title also at head of t.-p.

Beschreibung der Gemälde des Polygnotos von Thasos in der Lesche zu Delphi /

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Art and artists of Indiana,

"Who's who in art; Indiana painters, sculptors, and illustrators": p. 349-405.

Book of the dead: the chapters of Coming forth by day; the Egyptian text according to the Theban recension in hieroglyphic,

v. 1.--The Egyptian text in hieroglyphic.--v. 2. An English translation with introduction, notes, etc.--v. 3. A vocabulary in hieroglyphic.

Das Teuflische und Groteske in der Kunst.

Mode of access: Internet.

Das Teuflische und Groteske in der Kunst, mit 103 Abbildungen.

Mode of access: Internet.

Het sociaal conflict in de beeldende kunst /

Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-235)

Schreiben eines Freundes der Kunst an Herrn Gallerie-Director Krahe in Düsseldorf, die Beleuchtung eines Gemäldes vorzüglich betreffend.

An essay on the use of lightning in two landscape paintings by Nicolaas Pietersz Berchem and Aelbert Cuyp.

Bilder aus der Geschichte der altchristlichen Kunst und Liturgie in Italien

Text in German; notes in Latin.