by Kathleen Christian | Feb 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
The new Census database received a positive review from Matthew C. Coleman in the journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (vol. 46, no. 1 (2023), pp. 217–221). Highlights from the review include: ‘Census’s old, bright blue and grey colour...
by Kathleen Christian | Nov 8, 2023 | Uncategorized
A new user handbook for the Census database has been published and is now available here. The handbook offers a complete guide to all of the features and search functions of the database. The handbook also reflects adjustments have been made to the new...
by Kathleen Christian | Nov 7, 2023 | Uncategorized
The Census project has over the last year begun to work in close cooperation with the project and database Ubi Erat Lupa directed by Ortolf and Friederike Harl (Vienna). Ubi erat Lupa charts the geographic reach of the Roman ’she-wolf’ with a...
by Kathleen Christian | Nov 1, 2023 | Uncategorized
Alonso Chacón (†1599), known by his Latinised name Alphonsus Ciacconius, was a Spanish antiquarian and scholar active in Rome. Ciacconius planned the publication of several volumes of an illustrated antiquarian compendium referred to as the Antiquitates...
by Kathleen Christian | Oct 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
As part of her PhD research and thanks to the Erasmus traineeship program, Giorgia Agostini will conduct research at the Census for six months, between October 2023 and March 2024. Giorgia Agostini is a PhD student in the History of Art programme at the...
by Kathleen Christian | Oct 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
Christopher G. Lu, a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, has published a new blog post for Verso. Lu is currently reading for an MSt in Modern Languages at Oxford and specialises in Renaissance art and intellectual history. Lu’s post for Verso follows...
