Thesis
Secular wall painting in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
- Abstract:
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Wall paintings survive in many houses dating from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries yet, apart from recording the phenomenon, there has been very little written about them. This research explores how common wall paintings were, what sort of houses had them, when they were painted and most importantly, what was their significance in terms of what they can reveal about the lives of the people who chose to decorate their homes in this manner. Research has concentrated on the ...
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- Publication date:
- 2003
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
- Language:
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English
- Subjects:
- UUID:
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- Local pid:
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td:602323171
- Source identifiers:
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602323172 and 602323171
- Deposit date:
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2013-01-18
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- Copyright holder:
- Baird, K
- Copyright date:
- 2003
- Notes:
- The digital copy of this thesis has been made available thanks to the generosity of Dr Leonard Polonsky
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