All theses

L’église d’El Nazar en Cappadoce est un cas remarquable parmi l’architecture rupestre, incorporant dans son plan des éléments architectoniques étonnamment proches de ceux des monuments construits. Elle conserve aussi les vestiges de trois phases de peintures, permettant d’interroger le réemploi des espaces ecclésiastiques. Par ailleurs, la situation de l’église au cœur d'un site pourvu d'installations monastiques, d'habitats séculiers et d’installations agricoles, offre une opportunité de s’interroger sur le monachisme en Cappadoce et ses interactions avec la société laïque.

In 1947, Levitt and Sons inaugurated Levittown, NY, the first of a series of three suburban housing developments designed to accommodate young families of World War II veterans. Comprising 17,447 standardized and affordable single-family homes, Levittown met the fundamental needs of the American nuclear family while offering a degree of flexibility conducive to its evolution. A decade later, William Levitt, the company’s leading figure, launched Belair at Bowie, a more modest project that nevertheless reflected the middle class’s growing aspirations for comfort and personalization.

This dissertation explores the architectural, urban, and theoretical genealogy of dense-low housing (tæt-lav boligbebyggelse), a movement of neighborhood design that emerged in Denmark during the 1960s as an alternative to both detached single-family homes and multi-storey, high- or medium-rise dwellings.

This thesis investigates the uses and functions of colour in Florentine panel painting of the Trecento. As the first study on this topic, it moves beyond a mere analysis of hues, using a multidisciplinary approach that in-corporates lexicography, material studies, and visual analysis. To determine the role of colour within Floren-tine society, the first section undertakes a comprehensive examination of colour vocabulary in 14th-century Italian languages, revealing both the significance of red within Florentine culture and the neutrality of colour terms regardless of context.

This thesis seeks to highlight the exchanges between art, ethnology and anthropology in the context of the exhibition, from the 1930s to the 1970s. It is based on the study of three major figures: Georges Henri Rivière, curator at the Musée d’Ethnographie in Paris, his counterpart Jean Gabus in Neuchâtel, and the Bernese exhibition curator Harald Szeemann. The challenges of this study are multiple.

Attribution in art history meets various criteria, which can be studied with regard to the history of the art market but also the history of taste. Raphael, whose art has been the subject of numerous attributions or disattributions, is in this respect a textbook case. The study of six drawings and paintings corresponding to the three periods of Raphael's career made it possible to identify characteristics relating to attribution reasoning not only for the painter studied but also for modern painting in general.

The study of urban and architectural transformations in the vast territory of the Soviet Union after the death of Joseph Stalin in March 1953 has so far been the subject of only fragmentary studies. This work attempts to fill this historiographical gap by approaching architecture, urban planning, and territorial development as inseparable domains, intersecting with the history of ideas and techniques.