Browsing Theses by Subject "Renaissance"
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"Covetous to parley with so sweet a frontis-peece": Illustration in Early Modern English Play-Texts
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-28)This dissertation studies visual artifacts associated with early modern theatre and book culture, and through them examines acts of communication in the marketplace. These artifacts, illustrated play-text title pages from ... -
Intelligentia Spiritualis: Platonism, the Latin Polemical Tradition, and the Renaissance Approach to the Prophetic Sense of History
(University of Waterloo, 2022-07-25)This study sheds light on key figures and trends in the medieval Latin West that influenced the intellectual lives of the humanist theologians Marsilio Ficino (1433–99) and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–94), specifically ... -
Liquid Monumentality: A Search for Meaning
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-02)Contemporary architecture suffers from an acute malaise: it has lost its sense of meaning, and in turn, its sense of significance. In our world of economy and utility—the liquid world—architecture can only allude to a ... -
Lire la tragédie protestante française à la Renaissance: trois approches des oeuvres
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-12)Notre thèse, composée d’une introduction, d’un état de la recherche et de deux modules autonomes, porte sur certaines fonctions de la tragédie biblique d’inspiration calviniste à la Renaissance. Bien que le drame protestant ... -
Perspective in Two Dimensions for Computer Graphics
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-28)Computer graphics perspective is based on photography, the pin-hole camera model. This thesis examines the perspective as practiced by artists, who develop the picture geometry within the planar surface of the canvas. Their ...