Disclosing Collections Studies, Catalogues and Data in the Arts and the Humanities

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Aims & Scope
Inspired by the process of scientific analysis and contextual public disclosure of collected materials in the wider Humanities, this academic book series aims at setting a new standard in producing catalogues, inventories, indexes, collection displays, data sets, and item lists. The series is grounded on the idea of both mapping and disclosing unprecedented territories, which are then left with infrastructures that allow them to be available to the research community and the wider public. In this sense, the series intends to go beyond traditional concepts such as the ‘catalogue raisonné’ or full inventory lists, rather trying to present publications in print and digital form that cut across a given collection of items and thus highlight categorisations, interconnections, and relevance attribution. Of particular importance is the methodology applied to the production of the finalised publication, which takes into account recent interdisciplinary stances, modes of research and forms of presentation prompted by scholars in the Digital and Public Humanities, particularly the development and importance gained by relational databases. The scope of the series embraces the entire array of the Humanities: from Textual Scholarship to History, from Art History to Cultural Heritage, from Archaeology to Archival Studies. A distinctive feature of the series is its institutional interconnectedness, since publications are each the unique product of intense and planned collaboration with specific museums, libraries, collections, archives, estates, excavations, field works, and research institutions.

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  • Indexing the Early Modern Printed Image
  • A Digital Catalogue on the Illustrated Book in Lyon (1480-1600)
  • Barbara Tramelli
  • Nov. 28, 2024
  • Between around 1480 until the end of the sixteenth century, the city of Lyon became one of the most important printing hubs in Europe, second in France only to Paris. Developed along the banks of the two rivers Saône and Rhône, placed in a unique strategic position bordering Italy, Switzerland, and the south of Germany, the Renaissance city was a crossover of people, goods, and ideas. In Lyon was published the first illustrated book in France, Le Mirouer de la Rédemption de l’Humaine Lignage (Huss, 1478). Funded by the Equipex Biblissima (CNRS), the project Le Livre Illustré à Lyon (1480-1600) collected a substantial number of illustrated editions printed in the city in the sixteenth century, indexing these illustrations iconographically. The corpus includes more than 3300 indexed images currently hosted in the Warburg Institute Iconographic Database. These images also served as material to initiate a digital project in collaboration with the Visual Geometry Group in Oxford and the Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities in Venice. In between Digital Iconography, Digital Art History and the History of Collections, the book offers insight into the new methodologies of the Digital Humanities to index, search, and share early modern printed images.





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