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

Religion/Cosmology/Spirituality
Dissertations Completed by Subject, 2018

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Gellert, Carl, “From the Earthly to the Celestial: Material Culture and Funerary Practice at Japan's Sixth-Century Fujinoki Kofun” (University of California, Berkeley, G. Levine)

Morrissey, Elizabeth, “Memorializing Imperial Power through Ritual in the Illustrated Legends of Ishiyama-dera Handscroll” (University of Pittsburgh, K. Gerhart)

Palermo, Melisa, “Cor ad cor loquitur: Burning Hearts and the Iconography of Divine Charity in the Catholic World, 1570-1770” (Rice University, J. Manca)

Sandoval, Elizabeth, “A Material Sign of Self: The Book as Metaphor and Representation in Fifteenth-Century Northern European Art” (Ohio State University, K. Whittington)

Zumaya, Diva “Clandestine Devotion, Spiritual Reformation and Community Perseverance in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Catholic Visual Culture” (University of California, Santa Barbara, A. Adams)