Sökning: "cultural patronage"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade orden cultural patronage.
1. Muses and Patrons : Cultures of Natural Philosophy in Seventeenth Century Scandinavia
Sammanfattning : This study analyses the development of natural philosophy in Scandinavia in the 16th and 17th century. Rather than dealing with individual natural philosophers and ideas, it evolves around groups of natural philsophers - the Bartholin family and the former assistants of Tycho Brahe in Denmark, the Rudbeck family in Sweden. LÄS MER
2. Material Worlds : Queen Hedwig Eleonora as Collector and Patron of the arts
Sammanfattning : The thesis portrays the role of Hedwig Eleonora (1636-1715) dowager queen of Sweden, born princess of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf, as a patron and collector. Her role is analysed as to have played a great part in the Swedish cultural political visual production before and during the age of absolutism in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century. LÄS MER
3. Up the Stylish Staircase : Situating the Fürstenberg Gallery and Art Collection in a Late Nineteenth-Century Swedish Art World
Sammanfattning : This dissertation investigates the establishment (in 1885), the influence, the critical reception, and the legacy of the Fürstenberg Gallery and Art Collection in Gothenburg, Sweden. The aim of this research is to demonstrate how the gallery and the collection were products and producers of specific art-historical situations, within a particular nineteenth-century Swedish art world. LÄS MER
4. Poesins drottning : Christina av Sverige och de italienska akademierna
Sammanfattning : The present dissertation treats the position of Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-1689) in Italian literature during the second half of the 17th century. The investigation centres primarily on two aspects: her role as art patron and her appearance as a literary figure in Arcadian literature. LÄS MER
5. Openness as Political Culture : The Arab Spring and the Jordanian Protest Movements
Sammanfattning : This study is an exploration of the origins of the Arab Spring in Jordan and across the region. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among the leadership of the Jordanian protest movements, it suggests a new way of understanding why these movements fell apart. LÄS MER