On May 14th, the 4th edition of Iconclass launched. This edition has a dataset of images, indexed over the years by a large group of heritage institutions using Iconclass. It also has an iconographic bibliography of more than 60,000 items and deep links to other sources of iconographic information such as the Warburg Institute’s Iconographic…
The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies is pleased to introduce the scholarly community to BASIRA (Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art), a new, open-access online database of representations of books and other textual documents in the figurative arts between approximately 1300 and 1600 CE, the period encompassing the advent of print culture in Europe and…
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Application Deadline: October 15, 2023, 23:59 CET / 2:59 PM PDT The Wikiverse, with its suite of collaborative structures and applications, has great potential as an infrastructure for exploration in art history and museum/collection research. The possibility to build linked art and collection data, to visualise data and information, and to connect with a global…
A Portrait of Tenochtitlan is a reconstruction of the city as it was in 1518. The narrative that accompanies the images can be read in English, Español, and Nahuatlahtolli. “Mexico City is built on top of the ruins of Tenochtitlan. The temples were demolished and the stones were repurposed after the Spanish conquest. The lake has…
Beautiful Public Data, is a curated selection of visually interesting datasets collected by local, state and federal government agencies by Jon Keegana. From his About page: I’m an investigative data reporter with a background in visuals. While digging through government agencies’ websites looking for data, I’ve always loved coming across data sets that are collections…