This year, the IRC DIL lecture series has focused on Mapping, culminating in a hands-on map-making workshop. However, sometimes we’re looking for historical maps and ways to work with them. A magnificent resource for the study and research about and with historical atlases and maps is David Rumsey’s Map Collection. At his last count, there…
Renaissance Polychrome Sculpture in Tuscany is an online open-access database of photographs of and information about over 350 objects, produced by Una D’Elia, Heather Merla, and Rachel Boyd. High-resolution photographs are freely available for research, teaching, and publication. Clicking on “show full item record” reveals further information and bibliography. The database also includes an integrated…
The first 1,000 of Britain’s 150,000 publicly-owned sculptures have been published this week thanks to a project organized by Art UK. These works are global in nature and range in date from c. 1000 CE to modern times. The project includes photographing works that have yet to be been properly documented and the remaining works…
The painting below, “The Republican Club” by Andy Thomas, hangs in the White House, in the Oval Office in fact. It depicts several living and dead Republican presidents. This article in the Guardian breaks down each individual portrait very nicely. Discuss! Points for identification of the fellow in the background on the right.
There was an interesting piece on NPR this week about high-resolution images, panoramas and 3D scans of archaeological sites. This type of capture is very useful for all sites, but has been particularly invaluable for sites which have been destroyed in recent years. In addition to viewing a structure that may no longer exist, they…
Feminist art historian Linda Nochlin died on the weekend. There’s a lengthy obituary in Art News. And you may want to read this illustrated guide to her 1971 essay, “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” Or view this video of her 2009 lecture at the Smithsonian, “Consider the Difference: American Women Artists.”