Emily Ross in Edinburgh
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by m9stansburyo
7h ago
This January, MA student Emily Ross travelled to Edinburgh in Scotland to study the murals by Phoebe Anna Traquair in what is now the Mansfield Traquair Center – a former Catholic Apostolic Church. While in Edinburgh the building had an open day to the public, and on all other days, Emily was in the National Gallery and National Museum of Scotland to see Traquair’s embroidery, enamel work, and paleontological illustrations, and at the National Library of Scotland to read Traquair’s letters and page through her smaller scale work illustrating Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portug ..read more
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Erin Bourget in Northern Ireland
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by m9stansburyo
7h ago
This was my second trip to Belfast, Northern Ireland to see the International Wall murals, so I knew the neighborhood I wanted to go to and what I wanted to document while there.  Due to some issues with my flights, a short trip was even shorter, and I ended up having only one full day in Belfast which provided a great opportunity to get the photos I wanted.  Belfast recently opened their brand new Grand Central Train Station, so my train from Dublin arrived at the new station.  I went to Mass at St. Peter’s Catholic Cathedral in the West Belfast neighborhood, which was not only ..read more
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Michaela Piene in Florence and Rome
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by john70402
1w ago
In September of 2024, graduate student Michaela Piene of the Art History and Museum studies program at the University of St. Thomas received a departmental travel grant to complete her research in Italy in support of her qualifying paper. Michaela’s research focuses on quattrocento devotional art, specifically the usage of visual languages and sensory qualities within the work of Fra Angelico.  The in-person experience of Renaissance art was key to her research, allowing her to study the material and formal qualities that activate these works of art up close and in a more personal way. Sh ..read more
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Elsa Ballata in England
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by john70402
1w ago
In September 2024, Art History graduate student Elsa Ballata traveled to England with her mother, who proclaimed herself Elsa’s research assistant, to research fan vaulting for her qualifying paper. Over the course of a week, Elsa visited six different sites around the country where she toured buildings and spoke with guides about the history of each location. She spent two days in the Oxford area visiting the staircase at Christ Church College in Oxford and taking a day trip to Gloucester to see the Cathedral and the famous cloisters. After finishing up her time in Oxford, Elsa took a train t ..read more
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Research at the Rijksmuseum
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by m9stansburyo
4M ago
In the summer 2023, Dr. Amy Nygaard and graduate students Michaela Peine and Madeleine DeGrace travelled to Amsterdam with the support of a Graduate Research Team Grant from the Center for Faculty Development at UST. Their research project titled, Decoloniality, Decentering, and Didactics: Close Analysis of Antiracism Methodologies in the Rijksmuseum, closely examined 77 gallery labels that were written to highlight each object’s connection to the human slavery for the museum’s 2021exhibition “Rijksmuseum & Slavery”. These 77 labels were juxtaposed with the existing object labels for that ..read more
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Michaela Peine presenting at 40th Annual Art History Graduate Student Symposium
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by m9stansburyo
6M ago
In the beginning of March, Michaela Peine was invited to present her paper, “Tangible Devotion: A Tactile Understanding of Fra Angelico’s Virgin Enthroned,” an excerpt from her QP research, at the Florida State University 40th Annual Art History Graduate Student Symposium. Presenting this paper gave Michaela an opportunity to hone her research and writing, presenting a facet of her work and receiving feedback that will contribute to her ongoing research. Michaela’s paper focused on a small double-sided panel entitled Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints Peter, Paul, and George, Fou ..read more
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Harrison Peck in Sveti Klement, Croatia (summer 2024)
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by m9stansburyo
6M ago
Harrison Peck is an Art History/Archaeology Graduate student at the University of St. Thomas. His work over the summer of 2024 in Sveti Klement, Croatia was focused on the archaeological site at Soline Bay under professors Ivancica Schrunk and Vanessa Rousseau. His areas of focus in academics are Republican Rome and Early America, and he is particularly interested in archaeology and museum administration. During the 2024 excavation at Soline Bay, Harrison worked with a Roman site that likely produced salt, wine, olive oil, and garum (a type of fish-sauce). He also assisted with both the actual ..read more
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Nicole Petersen in Siena
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by m9stansburyo
6M ago
In September 2023 Art History graduate student Nicole Petersen (@nicole.etal_ travelled to Florence and Siena via a travel grant awarded by the department. They visited Italy to work on their Qualifying Paper project, which focuses on the hexagonal bowl in Pietro Lorenzetti’s “Birth of the Virgin” altarpiece (1335-1342) and how women experienced the work in its original placement in Siena Cathedral.   The first photo shows a selfie of them from the top of the Torre del Mangia with Siena Cathedral in the background. The second photo shows one of the many detail photos of “The Birth of the ..read more
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2024 Travel Highlights: Emily Ross in Chicago
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by m9stansburyo
6M ago
Emily Ross (she/her) is a graduate student in the Art History department. She works at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and her focus of studies is on the reinterpretation of medieval art in later revival eras.  In April of 2024, she presented her paper, “Adorning Mary: The Brooch in Latter Quattrocento Florence,” to the Midwest Art History Society (MAHS) annual conference in Chicago. The paper focused on the presence of brooches in Madonna and Child paintings in Florence, and their relative boom in the 1460s and 1470s, corresponding to the height of productivity for goldsmith-painters a ..read more
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Renaissance Florence: Ghirlandaio’s quattrocento goldsmith promotional frescoes
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by m9stansburyo
6M ago
In a seminar on early Renaissance Florentine art with Dr. Lois Eliason, Ingrid became interested in the frescoes of Domenico Ghirandaio (1448-94), one of the most celebrated artists of the late 15th century in Florence. Her research on his Birth of the Virgin (1485-90) fresco in the Tornabuoni Chapel at Santa Maria Novella became the foundation for her Qualifying Paper topic, and draws on a variety of methodologies – including stylistic, feminist, materialistic, and theories about sensory experience in art – to better understand the artist’s work and contributions. Ingrid had two hypotheses th ..read more
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