A Window on Nature and Art: The Virtual Research Environment of the Berlin Kunstkammer (Das Fenster zur Natur und Kunst: Forschungsumgebung zur Brandenburgisch-Preußischen Kunstkammer) is a “research environment” that provides digital access to the most important inventories, catalogs, and descriptions of this collection, including objects that have been reconstructed from a selection of sources. The…
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…
Earlier this year, LC Labs worked with three research fellows in digital history, digital art history, and software librarianship on individual computational research projects. Computational research applies computing processes like algorithms to traditional research topics, such as the study of history. For example, digital history researchers often use computational methods to uncover relationships between historic materials,…
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is the latest violent development in a long and turbulent history in the land of the steppes, and the Library has international resources on the region that go back for hundreds of years. You can learn a lot here, from one of the first maps that used the name “Ukraine”…
The Philadelphia Museum of Art is pleased to announce that the Duchamp Research Portal is now live! It provides free access to more than 18,000 documents and artworks, comprising nearly 50,000 digitized images related to the work and life of Marcel Duchamp. The cross-cultural and multilingual portal is the outcome of a seven-year partnership between…
It was a year ago this week that the Black Lives Matter signs came down from the Lafayette Park fence where they had garnered national attention as a rallying point for protests for nearly a year. The park, across the street from the White House, had been fenced off to keep protesters at a distance.…