Departament d'Història i Història de l'Art (2009-): Recent submissions
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Intercessió celestial i mecenatge sacre: la imatge del sant patró ciutadà a la Barcelona moderna (1517-1760)
During the early modern age, the patron saint was a key element in the configuration and definition of urban identities, impregnated with an important sacred component. In this context, strongly influenced by the post-Tridentine ...
World heritage brand personality comparative analysis
Currently, World Heritage Sites (hereafter, WHSs) are perceived as a prominent tourism brand, a fact that encourages many countries to increase their listed WHSs (Su & Lin, 2014) so that they may benefit from the use of ...
Joseph Bernard Flaugier (1757-1813). Vida i obra
Joseph Bernard Flaugier was born in Martigues, Bouches-du-Rhône, on December 10, 1757. On January 23, 1775, the Escola Gratuïta de Dibuix of Barcelona was inaugurated and Flaugier was one of the first students. After ...
L'obrador d'Antoni Peitaví i la producció de retaules als comtats del Rosselló i la Cerdanya (c. 1560-1592)
This research paper focuses on the study of the professional career of the painter Antoni Peitaví and his workshop. Furthermore, it presents a critical analysis of his artistic culture. Born in Toulouse in the mid-16th ...
L’impacte social dels museus. El cas de les associacions d’amics dels museus
This thesis is entitled "L’impacte social dels museus. El cas de les associacions d’amics dels museus" and focuses on the most loyal audience of museums: museum friends. This associative phenomenon is one of the largest ...
El movimiento social cristiano en los siglos I al IV: un análisis sociológico de la historia
“Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven” (Mt.6, 7-15) This prayer attributed to Jesus by the Synoptic Gospels, read in its historical-sociological context, clearly indicates the call for a new ...
Estratègies cinegètiques i aprofitament animal en el pas del MIS-3 al MIS-2 al nord-est de la península Ibèrica
So as to understand how hunter-gatherer communities faced the climatic deterioration that ended in the last glacial maximum, the research of this PhD thesis is focused on the study of osteoarchaeological remains retrieved ...
Dans l'ombre du démarrage industriel: les manufactures des maisons de charité. L'Hospice de Gérone et la bonneterie de coton en Catalogne (1750-1830)
The charity institutions of the early modern Europe have not traditionally been seen as spaces with an economic, and particularly manufacturing, dimension. Although they housed a variety of craft workshops with the aim of ...
La "Història moral de Cathalunya" de Pere Gil (1550-1622) i la historiografia catalana de l’època moderna
The thesis is the edition of the manuscript 112 of the Episcopal Public Library that contains Història moral de Cathalunya written by Pere Gil, a jesuit from Reus. This is the second book of a larger project, Història ...
Protecting archaeological heritage during conflicts. Syria’s archaeological heritage during the conflict and the local efforts to protect it
Since the start of the Syrian conflict Syria‘s archaeological heritage was a victim, the role of the international heritage organization was very modest and limited , the Directorate General of Antiquities and Museums ...
Turismo de base comunitaria: perspectivas para el desarrollo sostenible de destinos rurales en México
The development of community tourism has been considered essential for sustainable practices due to its ability to benefit the local population while reducing the negative impacts of tourism. Faced with this circumstance ...
"Quattro quadri, di pittura molto vaga e bella". Las spalliere con la Historia de Nastagio degli Onesti de Sandro Botticelli
In 1483 Sandro Botticelli completed with the collaboration of his workshop the quartet with the story of Nastagio degli Onesti. It was the first pictorial transcription on panel of the novella of the Decameron and its ...
Guerra i fortificació a la Catalunya moderna: la plaça forta de Girona (1635-1720)
The history of Gerona changed suddenly with the Treaty of the Pyrenees because the cordon established by then (basically, Perpignan and the fortress of Salses) was dismantled. The inability of the Spanish Monarchy to ...
Fatiga i èxtasi. Cossos, subjectivitats i cinemes als escrits publicats i inèdits de Jean Epstein
This dissertation studies the thought of filmmaker and essayist Jean Epstein, focusing on the motif of the body and the organism in his writings and incorporating his unpublished work into the object of study. Epstein's ...
I castelli della Sicilia nell'età aragonese-catalana (1282-1400)
The long fourteenth century in Sicily can begin with the revolt of the Sicilian Vespers (1282) and end with the Congress of Caspe, the arrival of the first viceroy on the island and the defeat of the last baronial rebellions ...
Camilo Egas, el precursor del indigenismo y concitador de las vanguardias en Ecuador (1889-1962)
The thesis: "Camilo Egas, the precursor of indigenism and instigator of the avant-garde in Ecuador (1889-1962)", exposes a comprehensive study of the painter's author career in two dimensions of analysis: 1) the ...
Modernidad y colonialidad en el modernismo brasileño: Tarsila do Amaral y Emiliano Di Cavalcanti
The present study tries to analyze the artistic production of the painters Tarsila do Amaral (1886-1973) and Emiliano Di Cavalcanti (1897-1976) through the concepts of modernity, coloniality and nation. The Brazilian ...
Furthering social exchange theory in the study of resident impact perceptions: three approximations to the limits to tourism growth
This thesis links the limits of tourism growth and social exchange theory (SET) through tourism impacts perceptions of residents. SET has been the most widely used theory to explain the perceptions by residents of tourism ...
"Fragmente-Stille, an Diotima" de Luigi Nono: escuchar lo imposible
This thesis presents an analysis of Luigi Nono’s Fragmente-Stille, an Diotima, as a starting point to investigate that this piece for string quartet provides in terms of the notions of sound and silence, the temporary and ...
Arte fantástico: estrategias visuales de lo imposible
Distinguishing between “marvellous art”, “fantastic art” and what we call “daimonic art”, the first objective of this doctoral thesis consists of elaborating a functional definition of fantastic art that brings together ...
