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Introduction to digital Art Historical resources
Karolina Badzmierowska
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triarcThe Department’s Irish Art Research Centre
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/TRIARC
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TARA
Trinity’s Access to Research Archive
http://www.tara.tcd.ie/
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Trinity College Library
https://www.tcd.ie/Library/
Digital Collections
http://digitalcollections.tcd.ie/
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Wikipedia is not a reliable resource.
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Example:
Wikipedia entry for “Vincent van Gogh”
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8456 revisions since 2001 by 2698 editors
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Images: source, licensing / copyright
information and quality vary!
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Google as digital Art Historical resource?
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Google Advanced Search
http://www.google.com/advanced_search
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Google Images
http://images.google.ie/
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Google Images
http://images.google.ie/
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Google Images
http://images.google.ie/
Visually similar images
The same image but
different sizes and
sources
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Google Books
http://books.google.ie/
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Google Books
http://books.google.ie/
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Google Scholar
http://scholar.google.com/
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Google Scholar
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Google Maps
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Street view
Florence
Piazza del Duomo
Panoramic view
Florence
Santa Maria Novella
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Google Maps:
Earth View
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Google Earth
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Google Art Project
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Google Art Project
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Collections
Exhibitions
Research
Learning
Library
Archive
Publications
Museum Websites – what to look for?
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British Museum http://www.britishmuseum.org/
The National Gallery (UK) http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/
Metropolitan Museum of Art http://www.metmuseum.org/
MOMA http://www.moma.org/
TATE http://www.tate.org.uk/
National Gallery of Art (US) http://www.nga.gov/
The Rijksmuseum https://www.rijksmuseum.nl
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JSTOR
http://www.jstor.org/
Academic Journals
Primary sources, Books
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ARTSTOR
http://library.artstor.org/
Digital Images Library
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PROJECT GUTENBERGhttp://www.gutenberg.org/
Ebooks
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QUESTIONS?
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BREAK
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Primary sources
Vitruvius
The Ten Books on Architecture
Jacobus de Voragine
Golden Legend
Giorgio Vasari
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors & Architects
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Vitruvius The Ten Books on ArchitectureRoman architect and engineer | 1st century BC
3 principles of good architecture
Firmitas / solid
Utilitas / useful
Venustas / beautiful
Human body as a source
of architectural proportion
Leonardo da Vinci | Vitruvian Man | 1492
Pen, ink, watercolour and metalpoint on paper
343 x 245 mm
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
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Jacobus de Voragine Golden LegendItalian chronicler and archbishop of Genoa | 13th century
A collection of factual and fictional
stories from the saints' lives
• The most widely read book, after the
Bible, during the late Middle Ages
• The most important source and “a guide’
to saints’ attributes and iconography
Artist Unknown | St. Patrick (Detail) | Late 13th c.
Jacobus de Voragine Golden Legend
Illuminated manuscript
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical
Gardens, San Marino, California
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Giorgio Vasari Lives of the ArtistsItalian painter, architect and writer | 16th century
A compendium of biographies of the
artists from the late Middle Ages to
Vasari’s time
• one of the principal resources for study
of the art and artists of the Italian
Renaissance
• the first art history book
Title page of Giorgio Vasari’s ‘The Lives of the
Most Excellent Italian Architects,
Painters and Sculptors’
1st Edition, Florence, 1550
Library, National Gallery of Art, Washington
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EXERCISE 1
Using the online resources listed in the presentation, please find one copy of each of the three books and save it on your desktop as a file or as a bookmark in your Internet browser:
Vitruvius
The Ten Books on Architecture
Jacobus de Voragine
Golden Legend
Giorgio Vasari
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors & Architects
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EXERCISE 1
Feedback
Was it easy / difficult?
If you found a few digital editions of the same book what
made you to decide which one is the best to keep?
Any other comments?
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EXERCISE 2
Visit and explore the following online resources and
discuss in pairs (groups) your thoughts on each as art
historical resource.
In pairs (groups) come up with the following (with
examples):
3-5 characteristics of a reliable online resource
3-5 characteristics of not a reliable resource
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EXERCISE 2
Online
resources:
Ancient Egypt Onlinehttp://www.ancientegyptonline.co.uk/
Skenographia Projecthttp://www.skenographia.cch.kcl.ac.uk/
Digital Karnakhttp://dlib.etc.ucla.edu/projects/Karnak/
The Corpus of Medieval Narrative Arthttp://www.medievalart.org.uk/
The Bayeux Tapestry Digital Edition http://www.sd-editions.com/bayeux/
Gothic Pasthttp://www.gothicpast.com/
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EXERCISE 2
Feedback
Was it easy / difficult?
What resource would you rate on the top and why?
Any other comments?
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EXERCISE 3
Using the resources from the
presentation, search for information
about Folio 32v, Book of Kells:
‘Christ enthroned’ and find:
• 2 articles
• 2 books
• the best reproduction
• 3 different looking reproductions
• 1 map
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EXERCISE 3
Feedback
Was it easy / difficult?
Which resource did you find the most challenging to use?
Any other comments?
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DISCUSSION
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CONCLUSIONS
Your priorities:
reading list, recommended online resources
and consultations with the librarian
Information (digital) literacy:
finding, assessing, evaluating, using and
referencing information
Be critical about online resources.
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Karolina Badzmierowska