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Digital Art History

"Technological Revolutions and Art History": Four-Part Symposium Weighs Urgent Questions in the Field

Color photograph of Dr. David Stork presenting at the 2018 conference, "Searching Through Seeing."

Co-sponsored by the Museum of Modern Art and the Frick Art Reference Library, this upcoming four-part symposium examines the connections between science, technology, and art history. Read more for a preview of the important topics under consideration, including what technological advances might benefit the study of art in the near future.

Datasets of the Dutch Golden Age

Painting of a woman in red and blue seated at a table set near a window with a man handing her a sheet of music.

Since its founding in 2014, the Digital Art History Lab (DAHL) has served the public with workshops and symposia to introduce the possibilities that the digital world holds for art historians. During these events, DAHL staff have encountered a wealth of enthusiasm but a lack of workable art datasets. Thus, we are excited to announce the release of two datasets, the Montias database and a Vermeer dataset on GitHub, an online repository and hosting service built for collaboration.

Visualizing the Spanish Artists Dictionary

A painted portrait of an old man in red robes standing at a desk upon which a large book lies opened.

Photoarchive intern Alexandra Provo and her collaborator Diana Sapanaro discuss their projects to use visualization technologies and Python scripts to make one of the Library's research tools, Spanish Artists from the Fourth to the Twentieth Century: A Critical Dictionary, accessible to the public in new ways.

Digital Art History

"Technological Revolutions and Art History": Four-Part Symposium Weighs Urgent Questions in the Field

Datasets of the Dutch Golden Age

Visualizing the Spanish Artists Dictionary

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