The Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance (formerly http://www.census.de/) is a 76-year-old project concerned with the knowledge and interpretation of antiquities in the Renaissance era. Since 1996 it has been based at the Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin as part of the Professorship of Early Modern Art.
The open-access database of the Census, which contains over 200,000 records, links together ancient monuments with texts and images from the Renaissance era. As part of a major technical update which is currently underway, the database of the Census will have a new URL and from April 21, 2022 will be available at www.database.census.de.
For a minimum of one year, a redirect will be set up so that links to Census records from other databases and websites will continue to work. On a permanent basis, the Census IDs that identify each record in the Census database will continue to remain the same; only the domain will change.
In a second step planned to be completed by Autumn, 2022, the database will be upgraded with new photographs and a new, more user-friendly interface. We will be sending out updates about the new version of the Census database at a later time.
For questions about the redirection, the URL change and other issues please write to: census.ikb@hu-berlin.de.