Art History

Poverty in Painting: Maintaining Strict Social Hierarchy in a Time of Religious Schism

A paper analyzing nine Baroque paintings in 17th century Spain, focusing specifically on Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Jusepe de Ribera and Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez.

The Great Mosque of Córdoba and the Legitimacy of the Umayyads of al-Andalus

A paper analyzing the history of the Great Mosque of Córdoba as it relates to Abd al-Rahman I's establishment of the al-Andalus emirate and the further development into a caliphate.