I would like to express my utmost appreciation to the members of my thesis committee—Dr. Peter Holliday, Dr. Julia Miller, Dr. Douglas Domingo-Foraste, and Dr. Ann Irvine Steinsapir—and to the administrative staff of the Department of Art for their advice and guidance during this undertaking. Thanks also to Dr. Ben Bronson, Jamie Kelly, and Armand Esai from the curatorial department of Asian and European Archaeology and Ethnology at the Field Museum of Natural History for their assistance and letting me review their records and photograph the frescoes in their collection. I am also grateful to the library staff at California.
