Little Buildings: A Study of Aedicular Furniture from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (1500 - 1900)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25772/VKES-NS62
Defense Date
2011
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
Art History
First Advisor
Charles Brownell
Abstract
For millennia, furniture design has emulated architecture. In Western design, furniture has taken the structural conventions suggestive of a "little building" or an aedicule. This thesis will present close examination of the development of aedicular design through the ages with a chronological study of exemplary case pieces in the permanent collection at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
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Is Part Of
VCU University Archives
Is Part Of
VCU Theses and Dissertations
Date of Submission
May 2011