Postgraduate researchers

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The Vulliamy workshop at Pall Mall – 100 years of creating luxury in London

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The Question of Identity in the Life and Career of Mohammed Al-Saleem (1967-1997)

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21, 39 Jeddah Art: The influence of cultural identity, education, and globalism on contemporary art in Saudi Arabia (2013-present)

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Moral Allegories and Gendered Spaces: Representing Women in Strasbourg Cathedral

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Reassessing the Pre-Raphaelite label (1848-2022)

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Charles Rutherston - The North of England's forgotten modernist pioneer? A case study into the collection and reception of modern art in the North of England, c.1900-1945

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Reinterpreting Kazimir Malevich’s Planity Series and Arkhitektony Experiments

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The Two ‘Authors’ of Work: Ford Madox Brown and Thomas Edward Plint

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Enduring Associations: The Art of Alter-Communities

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The Haptic Sense in the Dada movement

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Anglo-Saxon architectural sculpture in its social, aesthetic, and theological context

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Transboundary: Contemporary Chinese ink art in a global context

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A Comparative study of the representations of Hong Kong, Malaysian and Singaporean Art (Art of the Commonwealth states in South-East Asia) over international exhibition platforms from 1960s to early 1980s

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Settings and Subjects in Early Netherlandish Painting

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The Impact of British Art in Bohemia/Czech Lands around 1900

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The Development of Mihrab Design and Ornamentation in the Central and West Asia: Circa 7th to 14th Centuries

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Reinstating Mrs Jameson: revolutionary iconographer and Revival shaper

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A study of the phenomenon of the influence of English Pre-Raphaelitism in Italy on criticism, but especially on art.

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Beyond Superficial Senescence: Art and Old Age in Victorian and Edwardian Britain

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‘Venus surrounded by mirrors, reflecting her in different views': uncertain desires and aesthetic uncertainties in D. G. Rossetti’s double-works

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Enabling Feminist Readings of History Through Architecture

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The Architecture of Lord Burlington reconsidered

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To what extent did the architecture of the early modern grammar school affect, impede or complexify its formal educational and broader social learning functions?

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The Hall of Mirrors: A re-assessment of value making practices in the contemporary art market through the lens of NFTs

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British Victorian Busts

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Female Friendship Among English Artists at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

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Reforming Female Autonomy: Fifteenth Century Sisters of the Franciscan Observant Reform in the Upper Rhine

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From Umayyad Madinat al-Zahra to Almohad Seville: The Reuse of Caliphal Capitals in the Twelfth Century

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The Sized Body: The British Women’s Fashion Industry Production of the Modern Middle Class Consumer circa 1870-1930.

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The influence of trade, textiles, and patronage on the early portraiture of Thomas Gainsborough from his Ipswich period.

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The impetus provided by the Ernst-May-Siedlungen housing projects in Frankfurt during the Weimar Republic to the development of dweller-designed domestic interiors in Modernist mass-housing.

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Descriptiveness and Decorativeness: The Style and Reception of Full-length, Life-sized Portraits by James McNeill Whistler

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Bartholomeus Spranger’s Mythological Paintings: Gender Play in Rudolfine Prague

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German Expressionism and the Aporia of Time, c.1900-c.1925

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Designs in coloured light: The religious stained glass iconographies of Karl Parsons (1884-1934)

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Peach Blossom Spring’ and ‘Great Unity’: the Representation of Utopia in Contemporary Chinese Art after 1978

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Beyond Black and White: a comparative study of German Expressionist and Chinese Modernist woodcut prints during the interwar period

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Glamour, English Art, and the Re-Enchantment of High Society, 1918-39

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Early British Women Travellers to Ravenna and Their Impact Upon Early Studies of Byzantine Art

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The Novelty of Reproduction: Translating Fine Art into Two-and-a-Half-Dimensions in the Long Nineteenth Century

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Fashioning Identity through Material Culture and Architectural Legacy

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From Ritual to Rapture: representations of the quest myth in mid-Victorian illustration.

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Shifting patterns of taste and identity through iconographic analyses of mid-Victorian ceramics

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Simulating antiquity: Monochrome faux antique façade painting from a cross European perspective (1530-1630)

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A cross-cultural examination of late medieval circular world maps from the western and eastern traditions

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Reflections of European Medieval Revival styles in Russian nineteenth-century architecture

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The Eye of Its Beholder: A Medical and Scientific Study of Religious Visuality and Image Agency in Thirteenth Century England

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A Different View of Turner: Private Collectors, Agnew's and the Art Market, 1852-1906

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Body and Words: the assimilation of Carla Lonzi’s theory in the work of Simona Weller, Suzanne Santoro, Marinella Senatore, and Claire Fontaine

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Commemorating Imperialism in Eighteenth-Century Westminster Abbey

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The Persistence of Modernity; Railways Art and Relativity

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John Flaxman: art, design and the intermedial body

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An Ecological Art History: The Seventeenth-Century Cloth Industry and the Environment in the Low Countries

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Research topic: Re-threading the Modernist Grid in the Work of Bice Lazzari and Carlo Scarpa

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Mining (in) the gap: Nineteenth Century Traveller-Artists in the Anglo-Prone Frontier

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Camp-ulsive Beauty: Freak Reconfigurations of Surrealism in American Queer Photography (1985-2016)

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Convent Thoughts: Community and Religion in the Works of Charles Allston Collins.

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The afterimages of a deceased dynasty: The circulation of late Qing photography in the age of decolonisation

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Most Women have no Characters at all': Gender and Agency in Godfrey Kneller’s Portraits of Women 1676-1723

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Self-Fashioning and International Artistic Patronage of Merchants in Pre- and Post- Reformation London: The Merchant Taylors 1400-1610

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The Privately Founded Contemporary Art Museum’s Social Responsibility and Cultural Function in China

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An in-depth analysis of Stella Snead’s paintings, photographs and photomontages, contextualized within her connection to the wider art world in a transnational and comparative perspective

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Contemporary Artworks Based on Chinese Characters Since the 85 New Wave

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Ecosystems in Contemporary Art in China: Participation and Engagement, 1995-2019