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A portal for art history including extensive collections of resources for Renaissance art both within and without Italy
Tag: Art & Architecture
Letturatura artistica
‘Letteratura artistica’ (Art Literature) is a private, non-profit blog publishing reviews of books and investigations on art history sources. All the articles are available both in English and in Italian (the author is based in Bologna, Italy and possesses a specialized library of more than 2000 volumes on the topic). The blog presents more than 400 articles covering the Middle Ages to contemporary art. A special focus is dedicated to Cennino Cennini’s Libro dell’Arte and Giorgio Vasari’s Vite (1550 and 1568 editions). Renaissance treatises are discussed, not only in Italian, but in Dutch, English, French and Spanish. An index of all the published articles is available here.
Italian Renaissance Learning Resources
Italian Renaissance Learning Resources
A project of the National Gallery of Art, this website features eight teaching units that explores a theme in Italian Renaissance Art including “Presentation of Self,” “Pictuing Family and Friends,” and “Time and Narrative.” Includes thematic essays, 300 plus images, a glossary, and primary source texts.
French Art at the Saint Louis Art Museum
French Art at the Saint Louis Art Museum
French Art at the Saint Louis Art Museum includes artwork from the French Renaissance with images and texts on the work, historical moment, artistic genre, and artist. The site is bilingual in French and English and provides guides for educators.
Graphik Portal
https://www.graphikportal.org
The Graphikportal – Europe’s first union online catalogue especially designed for drawings and prints. The art historical database developed at the German Documentation Centre for Art History – Bildarchiv Foto Marburg, provides a large online pool of works of art of the European cultural heritage. At the start, around 300,000 works of art from 24 European collections are online, including the prints and drawings departments of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and the Hamburger Kunsthalle. The Albertina and the MAK Bibliothek und Kunstblättersammlung in Vienna, the Graphische Sammlung of the ETH Zurich and the Zentralbibliothek Zürich or the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for the History of Art in Rome are also present. Last but not least, the collections of the Virtuelles Kupferstichkabinett, a cooperation between the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum and the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, will be integrated as well. For the first time across collections the new Graphikportal makes these hidden treasures of the European cultural heritage accessible to a wider public on the Internet. All these institutions are members of the international working group «Graphik vernetzt» (Graphics networked), which aims to agree on common digitization standards and designing strategies for the further digital networking of graphic collections. This digital networking offers a real scientific added value, which can be used for the first time in the graphics portal on this scale. For example, all proofs deriving from the same plate or block are brought together in one search result.
Early Modern Architecture
A good resource for pan-European early modern architecture with bibliographies, links to relevant e-books, and it’s less Italian-centric than many other resources. There is also information about conferences, fellowships, current research, etc.
Map of Early Modern London (MoEML)
Map of Early Modern London (MoEML)
The Map of Early Modern London includes four interoperable projects: a digital edition of the 1561 Agas woodcut map of London; an Encyclopedia and Descriptive Gazetteer of London people, places, topics, and terms; a Library of marked-up texts rich in London toponyms; and a versioned edition of John Stow’s Survey of London.
Robert Hooke’s Books
An online source on the library of the 17th-century experimental philosopher and architect, Robert Hooke (1635–1703). The site is comprised of an extensive editors’ introduction and a searchable database of 2,711 records.
Digital Cicognara Library
Contains the full text of Conte Leopoldo Cicognara’s Catalogo ragionato dei libri d’arte e d’antichità, published in 1821, integrated with digital images of the full text of every title in the Cicognara Library. Includes both black-and-white facsimiles of the original volumes in the Vatican Library (digitized from microform masters), and one or more high-resolution, color digital facsimiles of unique copies from project partner libraries, along with thorough bibliographic information.
History of the Accademia di San Luca, c. 1590-1635: Documents from the Archivio di Stato di Roma
History of the Accademia di San Luca, c. 1590-1635: Documents from the Archivio di Stato di Roma
A project of the Center for Advanced Study of the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, the searchable database includes a complete transcription of every extant notarial record of the period from the Archivio di Stato di Roma identified by the project team, as well as a digital images of the original documents. The site also features artist bibliographies and a database of images associated with the early history of the Accademia di San Luca and its members during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.