The DFK Paris is pleased to present the database of the art collection of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. Based on the inventories of Nicolas Guérin (1715) and Antoine-Nicolas Dezallier d’Argenville (1781), the database lists 653 paintings, sculptures, prints, and plaster casts assembled by the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture…
A study conducted recently in the US suggests artistic depictions of environmental data can help counter climate scepticism. Art may be one tool to help bridge ideological splits over climate change in the United States, a new study in the 31 May issue of the journal Nature finds. Its five authors say that art offers…
Watermark Match Discoveries in Drawings by Rembrandt Wednesday, May 17 @ 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. EDT / 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. PDT Hosted by Frick Madison – Live via Zoom C. Richard Johnson, Jr. (Cornell University and Utrecht University) Robert Fucci (University of Amsterdam) Join the Frick Art Reference Library for a digital art history…
Museikon, from physical to virtual reality: a continuous challenge, Tuesday, February 21, 4:00PM – 5:30PM GMT / 8:00AM – 9:30AM PST, Online via Zoom After securing an EEA Grant, Museikon was required to make their entire collection of icons and ancient books available to the public, which they accomplished by digitizing and displaying the approximately…
Mark your calendars for Sunday, February 5, when Southern California museums from Long Beach to Santa Barbara will band together for their annual “Museums Free-For-All” Free Admission Day. The event will have over thirty museums—presenting art, cultural heritage, natural history, and science—opening their doors to visitors to explore their permanent collections (note that this offer…
OpenBibArt is a bibliographic database born out of a collaboration between the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (INHA), the Getty Research Institute (GRI) and the Institut de l’Information Scientifique et Technique of the CNRS (Inist-CNRS). It unifies the contents of four related datasets, whose history is described below, into a single open search platform developed…