Ahh the dreaded dissertation. I'm doing my MLitt in art history with a concentration in the Venetian Renaissance.
My thesis topic is shaping up to be Lorenzo Lotto and the influence of his religion on portraiture.
I'll finalise it in January and will submit the finished dissertation by July.
As for my PhD, my topic is still in the very rough stages, but I want to look at anatomical deformity in Venetian Renaissance art and compare it to how anatomy was used in the High Renaissance in Rome or Florence.