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Department of History of Art

Research

Current PhD Topics in the Department

Frank Albo

Architecture, Freemasonry, and Enlightenment Thought in Eighteenth Century France

(Prof Watkin)

Josefine Baark

International Art Trade between Denmark and its Global Ports in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century

(Prof Massing)

Richard Braude

Intellectual Property 1200-1450.

(Prof Binski)

Jennifer Brewin

Cultural Production in the Soviet Caucasus in the 1920s and 1930s

(Dr Blakesley)

Gabriel Byng

The English Medieval Economy and Architectural Patronage.

(Prof Binski)

Victoria Camblin

Totality and other problems of the avant-garde: The case of Acéphale (1936-1939)

(Dr Mahon)

Natasha Degen

Imagined Aesthetics: The Historiography of American Postwar and Chinese Postsocialist Art as a Function of their Markets

(Mr Robinson)

Molly Dorkin

British Landscape painters in Italy 1750-1797

(Mr Robinson)

Samar Faruqi

Representations of Women in Late Nineteenth-Century British Orientalist Paintings

(Prof Massing)

Anna Ferrari

Continuation of work on Henri Laurens

(Dr Mahon)

Loyd Grossman

Divided Selves: Benjamin West, his followers and the struggle to be modern

(Mr Robinson)

Emily Guerry

The martyrdom and crucifixion wall paintings in the Sainte-Chapelle

(Prof Binski)

Louise Hardiman

Cultural exchange between Britain and Russia in the Visual Arts 1890-1917

(Dr Blakesley)

Bridget Hembree

 Designing Victorian London: The Career of James Bunstone Bunning, City Architect

(Dr Salmon)

Blaithin Hurley

Music Rooms in Renaissance Venice.

(Prof Howard)

William Johnson IV

The Eighteenth-Century British Reception of Italian Renaissance and Baroque Architecture

(Dr Salmon)

Emma Jones

The Business of Sculpture in Venice, 1525-1625

(Prof Howard)

Nicola Kozicharow

Dmitrii Stelletskii and Filipp Maliavin in Emigration: Dreaming of Russia and Resisting Change

(Dr Blakesley)

Chloe Kroeter

Art and Activism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

(Prof Massing)

William Kynan-Wilson

The Cultural Relationship between Medieval England and the Mediterranean World

(Prof Binski)

Verity Mackenzie

Fetishism in the 19th and 20th Century

(Dr Mahon)

Hannah Malone

Italian cemeteries of the nineteenth century

(Dr Salmon)

Galina Mardilovich

Modern Printmaking in Late Imperial Russia

(Dr Blakesley)

Sarah Mengler

Aboriginal art

(Prof Nicholas Thomas)

Alastair Meredith

Jan Juta's murals in London and Pretoria, c.1932 - 1938

(Mr Robinson)

Rebecca Norris

Art patronage of the Colleoni, Martinengo and Savorgnan: Condottieri families on the Venetian Terraferma

(Prof Howard)

James O'Connor

Abstract Expressionism in Sacred Space

(Dr Mahon)

Rachel Parikh

Narratives in Safavid Book Illustration.

(Prof Massing)

Roberto Pesenti

Responses to experiences of the East in the Medieval Architecture and Monumental Decoration of Italy’s Maritime Republics

(Prof Howard)

Aurelie Petiot

Educational Policies of the Arts and Crafts Movement

(Mr Robinson)

Imma Ramos

Art and Pilgrimage in India: the Shakta Pithas

(Prof Massing)

Otto Saumarez  Smith

Post-War Housing in London

(Dr Nick Bullock)

Fanny Singer

The Photographic Thread in Richard Hamilton's Prints

(Mr Robinson)

Devika Singh

The reception and representation of the Mughal period in twentieth-century India

(Prof Massing)

Laura Slater

Art and Political Thought in Medieval England, c.1150-1400

(Prof Binski)

Kyle Stoneman

Evelyn Waugh and the Arts and Crafts Movement

(Dr Blakesley)

Thomas-Leo True

Sixtus V's Marchigian Cardinals: the cultural development of the Marche (1585-1620)

(Prof Howard)

Elizabeth Upper

Printing Colour in the Age of Dürer: Northern European 'Chiaroscuro' Woodcuts (1485-c. 1588)

(Prof Massing)

Clare Vernon

Visual Culture in Norman Puglia

(Prof Binski)

Josephine von Perfall

Kosmos Kippenberger. Mapping Martin Kippenberger's Artistic Network, 1979-1997

(Dr Skrebowski)

Lauren Weinberg 

Through a Lens Darkly: The Art and Artifice of Man Ray and Cecil Beaton

(Dr Mahon)

Cinthia Willaman

Sonia and Robert Delaunay's Artistic Exchange With Russian Artists of
the International Avant-Garde 1905-1925

(Prof Blakesley)

Lucy Wrapson

The materials and techniques of East Anglian medieval screens

(Prof Binski)

Jonathan Yarker

Copies and copying in 18th Century London and Rome

(Dr Salmon)

Daniel Zamani

A modern quest for the marvellous: Andre Breton and the Middle Ages

(Dr Watras)