Texte remanié de: Dissertation--Philosophischer Fachbereich I--Würzburg, 1975" / Bibliogr. p. XI-XIV. Index.

Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Glasgow, 1996. / BLL : DX192053. Ph.D. thesis submitted to the Faculty of Art, Department of Archaeology, University of Glasgow, 1996. Includes bibliographical references. Print copy also available.

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Texte remanié de: Diss.--Kunstgeschichte--München, 1970. / Bibliogr. p. 371-393. Index.

Fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Portuguese tomb sculptures stand as major artistic accomplishments that remain virtually untapped sources for European history, especially for the so-called “Age of Discoveries.” This dissertation reframes tomb sculptures as essential sources for early modern history by elucidating the role of these monuments as works intended to construct legacies as well as to commemorate them. It argues that an accurate interpretation of Portuguese tomb sculptures relies upon the acknowledgment of their rhetorical nature and the appreciation of their context as memorials to the aristocracy of a nascent global empire. It reveals Africa’s singular political, economic, and cultural importance to the early modern Portuguese, even when their empire stretched from Brazil in the west to Macau in the east. It also sheds light upon cultural links between England and Iberia in this period, a subject that remains curiously overlooked in art historical scholarship despite its clear manifestation in the medium of tomb sculpture. The first chapter comprises the first comprehensive survey of Portuguese funerary monuments, with my analyses drawn from extensive fieldwork and archival research throughout Portugal. The subsequent chapters address themes of power, chivalry, and empire through the medium of tomb sculpture. These analyses are drawn from a combination of historical, archival, and object-based study, which also produced the illustrated inventory of monuments that accompanies this dissertation as an appendix. Included in this inventory are transcriptions and translations of over one hundred tombs’ information-rich epitaphs, which reveal the nobility’s use of tombs to attempt to influence their historical legacy. By integrating Portuguese tomb sculpture into broader dialogues and identifying this genre of art as a powerful instrument of idealization and persuasion with significant and long-reaching cultural impact, this study seeks to reintegrate and recontextualize fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Portuguese patrons, artworks, and artists within the dynamic artistic milieu of early modern Europe from which they have been excluded. Providing an introduction to this rich corpus of artworks, this dissertation is intended to serve as a springboard for further study and to contribute to a clearer picture of this period, its people, and the enduring power of tombs.

Report submitted to the Faculty of Science, University of the Witwatersrand, in Partial fulfilment of the Requirements for Masters in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing in the Faculty of Science. School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand. March 2016. / This study is an initial attempt to investigate the spatial arrangement of graves which are believed that they can shed new light on the mortuary behaviours of ancient societies. The aim of this study is to utilise Geographic Information System (GIS) and remote sensing to document and explore the funerary landscape of the Wadi ash-Shati, Libya using a comprehensive set of environmental variables that might have influenced the spatial distribution of Garamantian funerary monuments. In view of that argument, this study is motivated by these two objectives; documenting all the Garamantian funerary monuments and settlements visible in high resolution satellite imagery and investigating their spatial patterns in their topographic setting. Spatial patterns were achieved by plotting digitised graves data from remotely sensed imagery (accessed through Google Earth) and hand held Global Positioning System (GPS) data in a GIS environment in order to extract patterns and structure in the dataset. In order to better understand these patterns and structures, the following GIS approaches; slope, elevation, visibility, clustering, directional distribution analyses were utilised. The results of the GIS analyses showed that there was correlation between graves location, qsurs or settlements, wells and with the environmental variables (slope, elevation, and distance to water resources). On the basis of the results of this research, it can be concluded that environmental variables were major factor in the placement of graves, qsurs and wells. The placement of these site locations can be related to as an expression of the socio-political, economic, cultural and ideological characteristics of the Garamantian society that created the burials and organised the Wadi ash-Shati landscape. The present study concluded that the Garamantian civilisation had established changes in the landscape that promoted the development of elaborate funerary monuments which peaked significantly during the time when aridity became immense in the study region. However additional research is necessary to provide more conclusive results and interpretations of this study, as such results from the analyses carried out should not be viewed as absolute, but as a stepping ladder for future investigation in the Wadi ash-Shati region. Keywords: GIS, Remote sensing, Funerary Landscape, Wadi ash-Shati, Libya, Spatial Analysis, Garamantian, Google Earth, Global Positioning System (GPS), Environmental Variables / LG2017

Texte remanié de: Diss.--Philosophische Fakultät für altertumskunde und Kulturwissenschaften--München--Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 1992. / Bibliogr. p. 345-354. Index.

Diss.--Universität Wien, 1992. / Bibliogr. p. 410-422. Index.

Texte remanié de: Diss.--Frankfurt am Main--Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, 2000. / Bibliogr. p. 157-189.

Mémoire de maîtrise--Histoire contemporaine--Nice, 2001. / Bibliogr. p. 160-164. Notes bibliogr. Adresse d'après la déclaration de dépôt légal.