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Gerber, Danièlle. "An iconographic investigation of the attributes and functions of Ancient Egyptian canine deities and their relation to death." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/78057.
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Klingbeil, Martin Gerhard. "Syro-Palestinian stamp seals from the Persian Period (538-332 B.C.): an analysis of their iconographic motifs and inscriptions." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1950.
Full textIn the course of this M.A. thesis, 65 stamp seals (conoids, scaraboids, signet rings and scarabs) have been collected, described, and analyzed. They stem from legal archaeological excavations in Syro-Palestine, and have been found in strata and contexts which can clearly be ascribed to the Persian period. Methodological questions were addressed, including the following: historical outline of the Persian period, geographical limitations of the study, archaeological considerations, and the iconographic and epigraphic aspects of the study. For the description process, a computerized system was developed, by means of which the seals could be described on three levels: general description, element description, modification description. In this way, a uniform way of handling the data was achieved. The description procedure is reflected in the fonn of a catalogue. In order to facilitate the analysis, the seal corpus was organized in three, at times overlapping, classes: iconographic seals, epigraphic seals, and hieroglyphic seals. The different classes were then analyzed according to their peculiarities, e.g. geographical distribution, iconographic motif groups, palaeography, onomastica, etc. It was shown that the corpus of stamp seals from the Persian period consists of a wide variety of objects in tenns of form and content, and could by no means be characterized as being homogenous. A certain relationship between geographical origin, fonn, and content of the seal could be established.
Ako-Adounvo, Gifty. "Studies in the iconography of Blacks in Roman art." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ50980.pdf.
Full textJohnson, Lakesia Denise. "The Iconography of the Black Female Revolutionary and New Narratives of Justice." The Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1213127495.
Full textVeder, Robin. "Dying Virgins and Mourning Mothers: A Study in American Mourning Iconography." W&M ScholarWorks, 1995. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625944.
Full textRask, Katherine. "Greek Devotional Images: Iconography and Interpretation in the Religious Arts." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1338473387.
Full textBiggs, Jeremy. "The Ideological Transformation of the Icon Chairman Mao during the Four Modernisations period : As illustrated by "Melody of Youth, Beautiful Soul"." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Kinesiska, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-23243.
Full text中文摘要:毛主席是中国历史上最有名的文化偶像之一。他的思想是中国共产党的根本基础。作为一个偶像,毛泽东在中国现代文化中是一个很重要的象征意义成分,代表着权力、中国共产党、毛泽东思想等等。 在八十年代,当毛主席死后,毛泽东作为偶像在宣传画中逐渐消失,同时也被商品化了。为了解释毛泽东作为文化偶像的影响,以及毛泽东思想在此时期的转变,本文会运用文化理论家雅克·德里达的?幽灵学?(Hauntology)和解构主义学的方法,对一具代表性的宣传画《青春的旋律,优美的心灵》进行分析。 通过分析,我们可以发现一些与毛主席有关的符号,例如:书,原子符号,光等等。这些与毛主席有关的符号,为了满足中国共产党的宣传目的,已经被转变了。而由于这些符号与毛主席有关,它们便意味着毛主席仍存在于文本中,但是因为这些符号被转变了,他们也意味着毛主席在文本中的缺席。 分析这段时间所使用的这些符号,以及阅读关于?四个现代化?的文章, 我发现,在?四化?时期,为了传达政权转换的合法性,以及保持其政权连续性的假象,不得不依靠已经存在的政治符号。同时为了把实用主义放在政治理论的核心中, 他们也要从旧的思想限制中解放出来,所以他们需要把某些与毛泽东有关的符指从符征里分离出来。 在过程中,偶像毛泽东转变成一种开架商品,各种意识形态都可以藉由毛泽东来贩卖。
Ashley, Angela. "The Roman de la rose : textual, codicological and iconographical aspects of MS. Grey 4c12." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7753.
Full textThis study involves an examination of one particular Old French illuminated secular manuscript, nanlely MS Grey 4 c 12, a fourteenth century copy of the poem Le Roman de la Rose. It attempts to understand the relationship between its illumination and the written text and to describe the unique features of its miniatures and marginalia, as well as including a codicological description of the manuscript.
Moock, Derk W. von. "Die figürlichen Grabstelen Attikas in der Kaiserzeit : Studien zur Verbreitung, Chronologie, Typologie und Iconographie /." Mainz : von Zabern, 1998. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39217252n.
Full textSini, Efthalia-Thalia. "Studies in the choice and iconography of everyday scenes on fourth-century Athenian vases." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670241.
Full textCuvelier, Pierre. "Le mythe de Pélops et d'Hippodamie en Grèce ancienne : cultes, images, discours." Thesis, Poitiers, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012POIT5009/document.
Full textThis is a mythological study concerning mainly two heroic figures of ancient Greece: Pelops and Hippodameia, ancestors of the heroic genos of the Pelopids. In the continuity of the works of Marcel Detienne, Claude Calame or Charles Delattre about the notion of myth, no more considered as an « indigenous category » but as a construct built a posteriori by contemporary scholars, I define, on the basis of the minimal criterias that are the proper nouns of the heroes and their iconographical types, a corpus composed of Greek (and also in some measure Latin) texts and of Greek, Etruscan and Roman figurative works, which I then study systematically in order to find out more precise criterias of unity or discontinuity in the representations of these heroic figures, paying special attention to the great variety of contexts (cults, genres, historical eras) in which they are evoked. I thus study the heroic cults devoted to Pelops and Hippodameia in Olympia, the visual representations of these heroes, and the different forms of speech which mention them, from Homer to Nonnos of Panopolis. I lastly try to provide the main elements for a global study of this corpus in a perspective informed by historical anthropology. If the widest corpus, composed of the mentions of Pelops, has only a limited coherence, several subsets appear more pertinent, mainly that which is formed by the representations of the chariot race that allows the union of two spouses, despite the reluctance of Hippodameia's father, Oinomaos
Thompson, Sheneese. "Oshun, Lemonade and Other Yellow Things: Philosophical and Empirical Inquiry into Incorporation of Afro-Atlantic Religious Iconography." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1555573211820986.
Full textMarshman, Amy G. "Ancient Puebloan Human Effigy Vessels: An Examination of Iconography and Tradition." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4174.
Full textFischer, Julia Claire. "Private Propaganda: The Iconography of Large Imperial Cameos of the Early Roman Empire." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1414586866.
Full textCox, Michael James. "Ba'al and Seth : an investigation into the relationship of two gods, with reference to their iconography (ca. 1500 – 1000 BCE)." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/85852.
Full textENGLISH ABSTRACT: Although the traditional viewpoint of the Ancient Egyptian civilisation is one of isolation and self containment, in fact Egypt and Syro-Palestine had a long history of contact and interaction before the Late Bronze Age, albeit somewhat tenuous and ad hoc. The commencement of the New Kingdom in Egypt heralded a more vigorous period of exchange. This was largely due to the Egyptian policy of increased commercial activity and military campaigns in Syro-Palestine as well as the rising strength of the Asiatic peoples. At the personal level there was always a trend of Asiatics moving into Egypt in search of a better life, which opened the door for the Hyksos rule at the end of the Middle Bronze Age. This foreign rule was an affront on the dignity of the Egyptians. Thus, following numerous military campaigns much of Syro-Palestine was incorporated into the wider Egyptian political entity. In counterpoint to the situation in Egypt, Syro-Palestine was very far from isolated, situated in the open cultural landscape of Syria and Mesopotamia it was the very hub of the Ancient Near East. Inevitably there was considerable interaction, and throughout history, as even today, Syro-Palestine is a crossroads and melting pot of different peoples. At the forefront of any exchange were religious ideas, religious traditions were introduced and foreign gods were spread far and wide. The international nature of the gods seems to have been a characteristic of the Ancient Near East. In this scenario were the Egyptian god Seth and his counterpart the Syro-Palestinian god Baaal, each with a complex story, wherein the iconographical and textual evidence of the gods show much commonality. The association of Seth with Baaal in Egypt is clear, the name of Baaal being written with the Seth-animal determinative, whereas Syro-Palestine has the Mami stele from Ugarit. Major events shook the Ancient Near East ca. 1500-1000 BCE, Egypt reached its apogee and ruled the East; providing the most likely answer regarding the presence and worship of Seth in Syro-Palestine. Certainly Seth was present and worshipped, naturally the massive numbers of Egyptian military and diplomatic personnel required facilities for this practice. Since the earlier Hyksos rulers accepted and worshipped Seth this predicates on a continuum into the period in question. To summarize: Seth equals Baaal and Baaal equals Seth.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Alhoewel die tradisionele siening van die antieke Egiptiese beskawing een van isolasie en selfonderhouding is, het Egipte en Siro-Palestina in werklikheid ʼn lang geskiedenis van kontak en interaksie voor die Laat Bronstydperk gehad, hoewel ietwat beperk en ad hoc. Die aanvang van die Nuwe Koninkryk in Egipte het ʼn meer dinamiese tydperk van wisselwerking ingelui. Dit was grootliks weens die Egiptiese beleid van toenemende handelsaktiwiteit en militêre veldtogte in Siro-Palestina, asook die opkomende mag van die Asiatiese volke. Op persoonlike vlak was daar altyd ʼn neiging van Asiate om na Egipte te trek op soek na ʼn beter lewe, wat die deur vir die Hiksosheerskappy aan die einde van die Middel-Bronstydperk oopgemaak het. Hierdie vreemdelinge heerskappy was ʼn belediging vir die waardigheid van die Egiptenare. Gevolglik, na afloop van talle militêre veldtogte is die meerderheid van Siro-Palestina in die breër Egiptiese politieke entiteit ingelyf. In teenstelling met die situasie in Egipte was Siro-Palestina alles behalwe geïsoleer. Geleë in die oop kulturele landskap van Sirië en Mesopotamië was dit die ware middelpunt van die Ou Nabye Ooste. Daar was noodwendig aansienlike interaksie, en regdeur die geskiedenis, soos selfs vandag nog, is Siro-Palestina ‟n kruispad en smeltkroes van verskillende volke. Aan die voorpunt van enige wisselwerking was godsdienstige idees, godsdienstige tradisies was ingevoer en uitheemse gode wyd en syd versprei. Die internasionale aard van die gode blyk ʼn kenmerk van die Ou Nabye Ooste te wees. In hierdie scenario was die Egiptiese god Seth en sy Siro-Palestynse eweknie Baäl, elk met ʼn komplekse storie, waarin die ikonografiese en tekstuele bronne van die gode baie ooreenstemming toon. Die verbintenis van Seth met Baäl is duidelik in Egipte, waar Baäl se naam met die Seth-dier as determinatief geskryf is, terwyl Siro-Palestina die Mami-stela van Ugarit het. Groot gebeurtenisse het die Ou Nabye Ooste ca. 1500-1000 v.C. geskud, Egipte het sy hoogtepunt bereik en oor die Ooste geheers, wat die mees waarskynlike antwoord aangaande die teenwoordigheid en aanbidding van Seth in Siro-Palestina verskaf. Seth was ongetwyfeld teenwoordig en aanbid, natuurlik het die enorme getalle Egiptiese militêre en diplomatieke personeel fasiliteite vir hierdie praktyk vereis. Aangesien die vroeëre Hiksosheersers Seth aanvaar en aanbid het, bevestig dit ‟n kontinuum in die periode onder bespreking. Om op te som: Seth is gelyk aan Baäl en Baäl is gelyk aan Seth.
Masek, Brooke Heather. "'Kalos thanatos': The ideology and iconography of the Demosion Sema at Athens in the 5th and 4th centuries BCE." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11288.
Full textThe Demosion Sema ["Public Tomb"] was an area of the Kerameikos in Athens that in the 5th and 4th centuries BCE functioned as the state burial ground--the repository of mass graves for those who had lost their lives in war. In an annual ritual known as the patrios nomos ["the ancestral custom"], the war-dead were eulogized and publicly mourned. Their mass graves [ polyandria ] were regularly marked by marble monuments with reliefs of soldiers in combat, under which the names of the dead were listed according to their tribe, but without demotic or patronymic information. This thesis explores the various aspects of the patrios nomos and the iconography of the funerary monuments of the state burial ground. By analyzing features of the ritual, such as the attendant funeral orations ( epitaphios logos ), and aspects of the imagery found in the polyandria , we are able to learn not only about the function of the Demosion Sema within the Athenian polis but also how Athenians mourned and remembered their war-dead within the context of a democratic ideology.
Committee in charge: Jeffrey M. Hurwit, Chairperson; James Harper, Member; Christopher Eckerman, Member
Pampanay, Élise. "Représentations imagières et textuelles des femmes sur les monuments funéraires attiques de l’époque classique." Thesis, Lyon, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019LYSE2130.
Full textDespite the difficulties in identifying women’s voices in classical Athens, the funerary context is quite enlightening about iconographic and written representations of the deceased. Epitaphs, short inscriptions as well as more detailed epigrams, give us an insight into how women, whether Athenians’ wives, mothers, sisters or daughters, were named and commemorated. Studying together connected inscriptions and images as a whole puts a light on a new set of meanings. Funerary monuments, displayed in public spaces, are indeed communication devices, addressing the passer-by or the deceased themselves.Epigraphical and iconographical evidence are crossed-referenced in this study, which focuses on archaeological data, but also literary ones, in order to define masculine and feminine views on women. Most of conventional representations inscribe Athenians wives and daughters in their social relativity, to such an extent that they appear framed, in the inscriptions as well as in the images. However, our analysis shows that the communication embedded in epigrams, especially between husbands and wives, temper this framing phenomenon, by giving us access to a more personal situation. Some even echo the husband’s or the deceased wife’s voice. Finally, representing women in a frontal view on classical attic funerary monuments is another way for these women to express themselves, if not by their speech, at least by their gaze
Cwiek, Andrzej. "Relief decoration in the royal funerary complexes of the Old Kingdom : studies in the development, scene content and iconography /." [S.l. : s.n.], 2003. http://www.gizapyramids.org/pdf%20library/cwiek%5Froyal%5Frelief%5Fdec.pdf.
Full textBeaumont, Lesley Anne. "Studies on the iconography of divine and heroic children in Attic red-figure vase-painting of the fifth century." Thesis, Online version, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.366348.
Full textGraves, Margaret Susanna. "Worlds writ small : four studies on miniature architectural forms in the medieval Middle East." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/5489.
Full textMornat, Isabelle. "La femme et la satire : étude sur le corps féminin et les femmes dans la caricature de mœurs à Madrid (1864-1894)." Phd thesis, Université Toulouse le Mirail - Toulouse II, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00639526.
Full textDeSantis, Gary G. "Penn State: Symbol and Myth." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002889.
Full textSuleman, Fahmida. "The lion, the hare and lustre ware : studies in the iconography of lustre ceramics from FaÌ?tÌ£imid Egypt (969 - 1171 CE)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.404878.
Full textAndersen, Angela Lyn. "Cem Evleri: An Examination of the Historical Roots and Contemporary Meanings of Alevi Architecture and Iconography." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1436301378.
Full textNelson, John T. "American Cultural Icons Defining the Cold War: A Study of the Attributes Embodied in the Rosenthal Iwo Jima Photograph, the John Wayne Screen Persona, Apollo Images, and Berlin Wall." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1278946239.
Full textAdams, John. "The problems of applying theories of depiction to non-figurative art." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/5266.
Full textEklund, Sophia. "Prinsessan och livet : En ikonografisk-ikonologisk studie av prinsessan Eugénies konstverk." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Konstvetenskapliga institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-449319.
Full textWinquist, Marcus. "Konsten och den helige Antonius frestelse : En hagiografisk och ikonografisk studie." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-104194.
Full textThis thesis explores the legend of Saint Anthony and his temptations, and the impression his hagiography has left on the visual arts. An iconographic method is employed to investigate literature connected to the origin and later evolution of the story, which is used to classify motifs and concepts subsequently translated into painting. Via analysis of nine different depictions of Anthony, a chronological sequence is formed which lists the transformation these portrayals have undergone since the 16th century.
Rönnfjord, Vedin Malin. "En bild säger mer än tusen ord : Analys av gudabilder i religionsläroböcker." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-162056.
Full textImages in swedish schoolbooks for religions studies in secondary school will be analysed in this essay. The purpose of the essay is to review and analyse how iconic and aniconic images of gods within hinduism are presented in images from textbooks that are produced since the new swedish policy documents (Lgr11) were introduced. The intent with the analyse is to find if the images represent a domestic perspective (hindu iconography) or an oriental perspective. The results from that will then be compared to how the swedish school policies about religion education present that iconic and aniconic images of gods within hinduism should be mediated in religious studies. The essay includes semiotic analyses of the images and analyse of the belonging texts, also an analyse of the policy documents. The results shows that the images in the schoolbooks meet the hindu iconography, while the text and explanations that comes with the images have an oriental perspective. The result also shows that the images meet the school documents guidelines but there is a lack of information and facts. This may affect the students ability to properly understand what hindusim is from a domestic perspective and will instead continue the be influenced with an oriental perspective.
Neiß, (Neiss) Michael, B. Sholts Sabrina, and Sebastian K. T. S. Wärmländer. "3D laser scanning as a tool for Viking Age studies." Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-180568.
Full textForskningsfinansiärer: Helge Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse, Svenska institutet (Visby-programmet), Kungliga vitterhets historie och antikvitets akademin (Montelius minnesfond); Svenska fornminnesforeningen
3D-laserskanning som verktyg vid vikingatidsstudier
Fox, Tatiana Eileen. "The Cult of Antinous and the Response of the Greek East to Hadrian's Creation of a God." Ohio University Art and Sciences Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouashonors1399414457.
Full textMiller, Laura Gail. "A Grand Tragedy: The Progression and Regression of Gender Roles in Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls Trilogy and House of Splendid Isolation." Ohio Dominican University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=odu1386704511.
Full textPlatevoet, Marion. "Médée en échos dans les arts : La réception d’une figure antique, entre tragique et merveilleux, en France et en Italie (1430-1715)." Thesis, Paris 4, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA040166.
Full textThe exceptional scope provided by the myth of Medea, which spans from the Conquest of the Golden Fleece to her return to the throne of Colchis, was received in its entirety by the Early Modern Arts and offers a multi-faced prism : Medea “tue-enfant” (La Péruse), the character left by the Ancient ancient Greek tragedy that became an archetypal figure of monstrous violence, crosses the path of the oriental lover of a civilizing hero, and also the enchantress who scatters lineages and timelines. Sculpted by the Christian culture and allowed into the official artistic repertory, this ambivalent figure absorbs the aesthetics and ethical debates of modernity. Indeed, Her Medea’s myth can be used for the expression of horror, allegories of glory, as well as expression of the passions.In addition, from the establishment of the Order of the Golden Fleece, by the Duke of Burgundy in 1430, to the end of the War of the Spanish Succession (which redefined the entire map of major European powers), Medea’s myth becomes one of the most efficient fictional mirrors of the political disputes between the most influential families of Europe, as an instrument of the publication of the Prince programme. Into the landscape of the cultural influences shared by the States of Early Italy and the French Kingdom, this study intends to show, by analysingthe spread of iconography of Medea, her presence in printed material and her classical performance reception and rewriting, how the exchanges between visual and literary productions work towards the definition of a paradoxical heroic standard. Where Medea “becomes Medea” and renews the oath that Seneca made her take: “Fiam”
Lailach, Michael. ""Der Gelehrten Symbola" - Studien zu den "Emblematum Tyrocinia" von Mathias Holtzwart (Straßburg 1581)." Doctoral thesis, [S.l. : s.n.], 2000. http://dochost.rz.hu-berlin.de/dissertationen/lailach-michael-2000-07-05/.
Full textJägerskog, Mattias. "Naturligt farligt : Hur visualiseringar av klimatförändringar är laddade med tecken och känslor." Thesis, Örebro University, School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-9187.
Full textThe purpose of this thesis was to examine the relationship between feelings and visualizations of climate change. A case study was done on visualizations of climate change from a web page concerning climate change published by the Swedish newspaper Expressen and from the American photographer Gary Braasch’s web page “World view of global warming”. The thesis is based on the article ”Emotional anchoring and objectification in the media reporting on climate change” by Birgitta Höijer. I have been aiming to understand the feelings of fear, hope, guilt, compassion and nostalgia through semiotic theories of icon, index and symbol.
Previous research has proven the difficulties in bringing the issue of climate change up on the public agenda – which is connected to the difficulties of visualizing climate change. The nature of climate change being slow and hard to spot on an individual level has been highlighted as a cause of both of these difficulties. Pictures and photos have in this thesis been seen as the “interface” between science and the public – and hence decoders of the science of climate change. Höijer’s article about feelings has been used to understand this process of decoding.
The results show that the analyzed material could be linked to and described by the semiotic theories of icon, index and symbol. The emotional anchoring found in the material and the semiotic application have been shown to work complementarily with each other, leading to a broader understanding of the material’s relationship to social cognitions. The results further demonstrated that context is essential in some of the analyzed visualizations of climate change. Generic pictures found in the material could have been regarded as icon, index or symbol of other messages – but is through its contexts anchored with feelings, and becomes visualizations of climate change. The analysis also suggests that if icons of nature could be connected with feelings – so could nature itself. The consequences are speculated to lead to objectification of nature and ecophobia. By objectifying nature and using generic pictures, the material’s relationship to the concepts of “truth” and “myth” is questioned.
In conclusion, understanding of the analyzed material is advantageously achieved through complementary use of Höijers emotional categories and the semiotic theories of icon, index and symbol.
Norrby, Malin. "Text utan kontext : en granskning av kyrkobeskrivningar utifrån forskning om antijudiska motiv i svenska kyrkobyggnader." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-403209.
Full textLangran, Johanna. "Drakdräparen och dräktdelaren : En stilkritisk, ikonografisk och kontextuell studie av två medeltida träskulpturer föreställande Göran och Martin." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Konstvetenskapliga institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-451046.
Full textShonk, Gregory J. "Vision and Presence: Seeing the Buddha in the Early Buddhist and Pure Land Traditions." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1338148835.
Full textWadhera, Piyush. "Représenter le compositeur de musique à l’ère de l’industrie visuelle : entre gloire et célébrité, 1830-1871." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020SORUL030.
Full textThe advent of the July monarchy led to the appearance of an artist, whose symbolic importance in French culture continued to grow throughout the 19th century. However, the plural conception of this social category struggled to include music composers, only a few of which managed to access the symbolic power offered by the artist's new representation in French society. The pre-revolutionary conception of the composer's "glory" is thus called into question by the reassessment of his status, the latter thus trying to assert himself in a cenacle of artists where places are traditionally occupied by representatives of the fine arts. With the Second Empire, the cultural industry allowed the development of a new conception of the artist, more commercial and more accessible. The combined rise of musical drama and photography allowed the birth of the modern celebrity through the "star system". The music composer, the traditional representative of the musical work, is now faced with competition from his own performers. How does the music composer negotiate his place in French society in the light of these political and cultural phenomena? In this study, the aim is to restore the composer's place in a transdisciplinary conception of art history, in order to study the profound transformations undergone by the artistic profession of music and the symbolic conception of the composer, before the cinema industry was born. Between traditional glory and modern celebrity, the composer tries to find his place in a new market of images and spectacles. Through these representations, the music composer thus influences certain general conceptions of the artist and of art in the 19th century, some of which continue to this day
af, Klinteberg Kristina. "Diadem och identitet : En studie kring identiteter i kejsarinnan Josephines pärl- och kamédiadem." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Konstvetenskapliga institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-438810.
Full textNorandi, Elina. "Tránsitos entre París y Barcelona en la primera mitad del siglo XX: obra y trayectoria de Olga Sacharoff." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/666892.
Full textThis Thesis work is about the artistic trajectory of the painter Olga Sacharoff (Tbilisi 1881 - Barcelona 1967) and a proposal to interpret her work which, apart from some texts in catalogues of exhibitions, did not yet dispose of a thorough and complete research. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the artist moved to Paris where, until the Second World War, she developed a style based in the avant-garde languages. Considering the spaces where she exhibited and the artistic circles that she frequented, this work —from the documentation found— proposes to include her as a firm member of the School of Paris because, it was in that context, where she painted her works that are considered the most relevant. Since 1945 the artist established her residence in Barcelona, where she already had personal and artistic links. She merged herself in the post-war artistic and cultural context of that time. This stage of her activity is the most well-known and documented. However, due to the fact of her feminine status at a time when female artists were still a minority, the Barcelona critique judged her production from parameters related to femininity and the categories that the gender system of the time attributed to it. This research aims to study her work using new methodological approaches with which to interpret it from other perspectives that allow a complex artistic discourse to emerge, as well as to establish ways of continuity between the periods of Paris and Barcelona, beyond the dual vision that has been left to us from this painter. The first volume or this Thesis is divided into two parts: the first one is dedicated to the life and artistic path of Olga Sacharoff, and the second part, to the studies of her work. Note: Volume II is the reasoned catalogue of the work of Olga Sacharoff. We have included more than seven hundred index cards of her paintings where her artistic production is organised and classified. This catalogation will remain open in order to add, expand or correct with new information that might come to light in the future. To maintain the privacy of collectors and owners, this part of the work is not available on the Internet.
af, Klinteberg Kristina. "Ett diadem och dess ikonografi : En studie av kejsarinnan Josephines pärl- och kamédiadem i porträtt mellan 1812 och 2010." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Konstvetenskapliga institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-438793.
Full textMerseburger, Maria. "Gemalte Gewandung im Florentiner Quattrocento." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/18687.
Full textThe thesis presents an art historical methodology that assesses clothing and its pictorial representations in order to interpret how material culture relates to social construction. Using as an example an impressive patronage project of the Tornabuoni family – a newly rich family of merchants in the circle of the Medici – reveals the possibilities as well as the limitations of symbolic communication through dress in early modern Florence. In addition to outward style, these subtle symbols helped to establish and renegotiate their bearer’s position in the shifting hierarchy of an uncertain political climate. By closely examining Tornabuoni commissions, the thesis demonstrates how clothing is a critical means of understanding social motivations and aspirations.
Eiman, Simoné Marianne. "A visual semiotic analysis of the hidden meanings, myths and ideologies in Old Mutual South Africa's CSR 2.0 corporate advertising." Diss., 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/23130.
Full textThe aim of this exploratory study was to investigate the underlying meanings of Old Mutual South Africa’s (OMSA’s) CSR 2.0 corporate advertisements. It specifically examined the underlying myths and ideologies conveyed through the texts. This qualitative study was conducted by means of a visual semiotic analysis (Machin 2012) on eight CSR 2.0 corporate advertisements, which were purposively selected. A theoretical framework to measure visual CSR 2.0 corporate advertisements was developed, which aided in the sampling, data analysis and interpretation processes. The findings of the study indicated that by positioning its CSR 2.0 positively in terms of change and transformation, progress and equal opportunities for all citizens, OMSA is fostering stakeholder-organisation relationships. In addition, it was also found that OMSA adopts established representational tropes of CSR 2.0 and use them repetitively that firmly entrenches the intended/encoded message to the viewer.
Die doel van hierdie verkennende studie was om die onderliggende betekenis van CSR 2.0 korporatiewe advertensies in Ou Mutual Suid-Afrika te ondersoek. Dit is spesifiek gemoeid met die onderliggende mites en ideologieë wat deur middel van die tekste oorgedra word. Die kwalitatiewe studie is uitgevoer deur middel van 'n visuele semiotiese ontleding (Machin 2012) op agt CSR 2.0 korporatiewe advertensies, wat doelbewus gekies is. 'n Teoretiese raamwerk, om visuele CSR 2.0 korporatiewe advertensies te meet, is ontwikkel, dit het bygedra tot die steekproefneming, data-analise en interpretasie prosesse. Die bevindinge van die studie dui daarop dat deur CSR 2.0 positief in terme van verandering en transformasie, vooruitgang, en gelyke geleenthede vir alle burgers te posisioneer, OMSA verhoudings met belanghebbendes kan bevorder. Daarbenewens is ook gevind dat OMSA gevestigde temas van CSR 2.0 implementeer en hulle herhaaldelik gebruik wat juis die beoogde / gekodeerde boodskap stewig aan die kyker bevestig.
Communication Science
M. A. (Communication Science)
Dong, Lan. "Cross -cultural palimpsest of Mulan: Iconography of the woman warrior from premodern China to Asian America." 2006. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3242314.
Full textHUANG, BO-HUA, and 黃柏華. "The Iconography in Publications of Religious Tract Societies in China (1876-1950) and the Case Studies on the “Broad and Narrow Way” and “Prodigal Son”." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/btk344.
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The thesis aims to investigate the missionary posters published by R.T.S. during 1876-1950 in China. Through analyzing their stylistic characteristics, design concepts, historical context and sales management, this study clarifies the missionary strategies of R.T.S. at its different stages, and how its missionary posters and iconography reflect the diverse challenges in delivering Gospel in a country with different cultures. Through the case studies on the missionary posters “Broad and Narrow Way” and “Prodigal Son” in Tainan (Taiwan), focusing on the themes, motifs, artistic forms and the way they were creatively displayed to replace the traditional Buddhist and Taoist shrine, the cross-cultural encounters between China and Europe in 19th-20th century, as well as the accommodation of Christian values in the Chinese society are vividly illustrated. The missionary posters of R.T.S. as visual materials document not only western missionaries’ attitude towards Chinese traditional beliefs and customs, but also the missionary strategies of R.T.S. in China, contributing new insights in terms of missionary, art historical and cultural history in China and Taiwan.
Coetzee, Derick. "The impact of the symbolism and iconography of the Ankh, sun-disk and Wadjet eye on modern (“western”) society." Diss., 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/23328.
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M.A. (Ancient Near Eastern Studies)
"Surreal Classicism: Salvador Dalí Illustrates Don Quixote." Doctoral diss., 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.44422.
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Machková, Magda. "Podoby Orfea. Ikonografická studie o motivu Orfea v evropském a českém výtvarném umění 19. století." Doctoral thesis, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-336121.
Full textKlopper, Frances. "Oë in die wildernis : die religieuse funksie van fonteine en putte in die Hebreeuse Bybel : 'n godsdienshistoriese studie." Thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/802.
Full textDie proefskrif ondersoek die funksie van fonteine en putte in die religie van ou Israel. Die religie van die Hebreeuse Bybel word tradisioneel beskryf as 'n historiese religie waarin Jahwe, die god van Israel, fundamenteel gemoeid is met die verlossing van sy volk in die gang van die geskiedenis, terwyl die wêreld van die natuur van marginale belang is. Dit is egter duidelik dat die natuur in die vorm van haar grondwaterbronne 'n belangrike rol in ou Israel se leefwerêld gespeel het, nie alleen as lewegewende bronne in die droē fisiese Palestynse landskap nie, maar ook in hulle narratiewe en simboliese wêrelde. Fonteine en putte was kultiese plekke en heilige ruimtes waar teofanieē plaasgevind het, konings gekroon is, regsgedinge gevoer is, voorvadergeeste opgeroep is en die nageslag van ou Israel verseker is toe die voorvaders hulle toekomstige bruide by putte ontmoet het. Deur middel van die ou Nabye Oosterse ikonografie as hulpwetenskap in die interpretasieproses, is gevind dat die rede vir die sakrale waarde wat aan die waterbronne geheg is, opgesluit is in ou Israel se kosmologie wat hulle met hulle mitologies-gesinde en natuurvererende bure gedeel het. Daarvolgens ontspring fonteine uit die kosmiese onderaardse oeroseaan om lewe en vrugbaarheid te bring aan alles wat lewe. Die beeld het daartoe aanleiding gegee dat fonteine en putte metafories vir vroulike seksualiteit en vrugbaarheid gedien het. Die waterbronne tree ook as draers van hoop op. In verhale oor die wonderbaarlike ontstaan van fonteine in die wildernis deur lewensonderhoud aan die Israetiete tydens hulle woestynomswerwinge te voorsien. Ons kan met sekerheid aanneem dat ou Israel hulle watergate as lokaliteite van integrasie, sin en orde teen die aanslae van die chaosmagte ervaar het. Deur die eeue het die mensdom nagedink oor eksistensiele kwessles soos lewe en dood, vrugbaarheid en steriliteit, die redes vir rampe en oor wat die toekoms inhou. Dit is ten diepste religieuse vrae wat die vervloe bybelskrywers vir hulle tyd en omstandighede aangespreek het deur 'n refigurasie van Palestina se waterbronne. Grondliggend aan hierdie studie as 'n herevaluering van die natuur in die Hebreeuse Bybel om menslike wesens as deel van die natuur op te stel en nie as staande bo die natuur nie.
The dissertation investigates the function of springs and wells in the religion of ancient Israel. The religion of the Hebrew Bible has traditionally been descibed as a historical religion in which Yahweh, the god of Israel, was fundamentally concerned with the salvation of Yahweh's people In history in which the world of nature is of marginal interest. However, it is evident that nature in the form of its groundwater sources played an important role, not only as life giving sources in the arid physical environment of Palestine, but also in their narrative and symbolic worlds. Springs and wells served as cultic centres and sacred places where theophanies took place, kings were crowned, lawsuits conducted, ancestral spirits conjured up and the future progeny of Israel was ensured when patriarchs betrothed their future brides at wells. By means of ancient Near Eastern iconography as an interpretation aid, this study finds the reason for the sacred value attributed to groundwater sources in the cosmology of ancient Israel which she shared with her mythically-minded and nature-worshipping neighbours. Springs were believed to arise from the cosmic subterranean ooean to bring life and fertility to all living things. This image caused springs and wells to serve as metaphor of female sexuality and fertility. They also act as agents of hope in stories of miraculous springs in the desert which provide sustenance during the Israelites' desert wanderings. We can safely conclude that ancient Israel experienced their springs and wells as localities of integration, meaning and order amidst the threatening forces of chaos. Through the ages humankind reflected on existential questions regarding life and death, fertility and sterility, the reasons for disasters and what the future holds. These are profoundly religious questions addressed by the biblical authors for their time and circumstances by implementing a refiguration of the groundwater sources of Palestine. Ultimately this study serves to re-evaluate nature in the Hebrew Bible and to construe human beings not as standing above nature, but as part of nature.
Religious Studies and Arabic
D. Litt. et Phil. (Religious Studies)