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Women Artists who depicted Aphrodite/Venus (I)
TweetAn investigation into this subject would necessitate an interdisciplinary team, analysing not only the iconography and iconology of the artworks, but also the socio-cultural background of the...
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The Iconclass System (I)
In this blog dedicated to 'Iconography in Art History' the Iconclass System should not be omitted. My first post about Iconclass is a short description of the system, illustrated with the example of...
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A great source for research collection freaks
TweetThe Royal Academy of Arts in London has, of course, a website with plenty of information and its collection online fully searchable. But even more important is the ongoing project of digitising...
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The fabulous Medici Archive online Project
TweetConsisting mostly of letters (nearly three million filling a full kilometer of shelf-space) of the Medici family from 1537 to 1743, documented and annotated, the fully searchable database is now...
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Best practice of an online catalogue: Cat’zArts
Tweet There are numerous art catalogues online of all brands, types and level of functionality. Unfortunately, not all of them apply 'best practice' rules for end-users like me (if such rules have ever...
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The Iconclass System (II)
TweetThis is the sequel to my introductory post 'The Iconclass System (I)' of August 29, 2011. It discusses the relationship between Iconclass and my 'Topical Catalogues' extracted from my Thematic...
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'Of the Nature of Things' illustrated
Tweet It's a bliss to read the announcement about the Conference 'Lucretius and Modernity' New York University, October 26-28, 2011. 'De Rerum Natura' is the principal work ofTitus Lucretius Carus...
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The 'Twin Venuses' of Titian or 'Sacred and Profane Love' revisited
TweetWithin an interval of six days, the 'Art History Mystery' Blog London, British Museumpublished two posts about the masterwork of TIZIANO Vecellio (ca 1488-1575), entitled 'Amor sacro e Amor...
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Shakespeare and La Fontaine: a comparison 'ut pictura poesis'
TweetWilliam Shakespeare(1564-1616) - no doubt the best known author of theatre and poetry in English literature - published in 1593 the highly successful narrative poem 'Venus and Adonis' of 1194...
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A lost painting by Adriaen VAN DER WERFF copied on a porcelain plaque
TweetBerlin porcelain plaque by E. BohmWhile compiling my fourth Topical Catalogue of the Iconography of Venus from the Middle Ages to Modern Times of identified artists, I came across a nice picture...
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Photo-Archives, Old and New
TweetThe discovery in the 19th century and the subsequent impressive development of photography in the 20th century have overthrown the 400 year monopoly of engravings for the propagation of artworks....
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Mapping the relationship between artworks and weighing masterworks
TweetIntroduction Masterworks attract patrons and customers and the result is often a group of replicas of the original artwork by the artist himself or his workshop. Famous examples among the Old...
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Exhibition Catalogues in the Digital Age
Tweet IntroductionWhatever your particular interest as an art lover, you will always rely on catalogues to increase your knowledge: catalogues raisonnés of artists, museum collection catalogues,...
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'Déjà-vu?' or complex networks in art history
Tweet Inspiration for this postStaatliche Kunsthalle in Karlsruhe (DE) features an exhibition with an intriguing title: 'Déjà-vu? Die Kunst der Wiederholung von Dürer bis YouTube' . This exhibition...
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Digital Art History: a brave report and a new project
TweetThe Kress Foundation published on June 1, 2012 an audacious report (1)'Transitioning to a Digital World - Art History, Its Research Centers, and Digital Scholarship' By coincidence, 7 days later...
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Cybernetics and art history: an odd relation?
TweetThere is much talk nowadays about the digital age, digital humanities and digital art history. Obviously, the word digital underwent a semantic shift: it means literally numerical, but it got the...
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What is needed in the digital world of art history : an old kind of scholarship
TweetThe title of this post is inspired by two quotes :'(...) we need to make room for both kinds of digital humanities, the kind that seeks to make arguments and answer questions now and the kind that...
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A thematic compilation of 3200 German, Swiss and Central-European artworks
TweetThanks to Internet, the WEB and the on-going digitizing of many documents, the compilation of large thematic catalogues becomes more feasible than ever before. The endless information about a...
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Women Artists who depicted Aphrodite/Venus (II)
TweetLists and time distribution of 93 women artists, born or educated in Germany, Switzerland and Central-Europe, who depicted Aphrodite/Venus in their artworks.The lists are extracted from my fourth...
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Flemish Painting and French Literature: Marguerite Yourcenar
TweetThe small Musée de Flandre at Cassel, Département du Nord in France, remembers the 25th anniversary of the death of Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987) with a beautiful exhibition entitled “...
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