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 data­base since its launch in April, 2023.…

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 conti­nu­ally-expan­ding coll­ec­tion of records on the…

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 Univer­sity of Florence, Pisa and Siena. She…

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 up on a topic he began to explore in…

The data of The Census of Antique Works of Art and Archi­tec­ture Known in the Renais­sance has been seman­ti­cally modelled accor­ding to the CIDOC-CRM frame­work and trans­formed into RDF/XML files. These files will soon be depo­sited on the edoc server of the Humboldt-Univer­sität, where they will be…

Between November 2023 and March 2024, Hugh Culli­more will be conduc­ting rese­arch in Berlin, Rome and London as a Census x Hertziana x Warburg fellow. The fellow­ship was first inau­gu­rated as a part­ner­ship between the Census and the Hertziana in 2022, and it now expands for the first time this year…

Juan Carlos G. Mantilla, an assistant professor of world lite­ra­tures at Cali­fornia State Univer­sity in Fresno (USA) has written a new essay for the Census rese­arch blog Verso. Mantilla’s essay, titled Sacsay­hu­aman in Early Moder­nity: the Inven­tion of New Ancient Edifices, examines the various ways…

The Census project will parti­ci­pate in a work­shop at the Biblio­theca Hertziana between 26.6.2023 and 28.6.2023 on the topic of a colla­bo­ra­tive digital project focused on the city of Rome. Please see below for a descrip­tion of the confe­rence by the orga­nisers: The purpose of the work­shop is to…

We are very pleased to announce that the Warburg Insti­tute has joined the Census x Hertziana Fellow­ships in the recep­tion of anti­quity.  Thanks to a gene­rous contri­bu­tion from the Warburg Insti­tute, the Census fellow­ship can also now also be offered for a longer period.  One fellow per year will…

With the explo­sion of new repro­duc­tive tech­no­lo­gies starting in the fifte­enth century, anti­qui­ties were among the most sought-after subjects for copies, repro­duc­tions, impres­sions, seals, casts and moulds. Although there has been exten­sive rese­arch on anti­qua­rian prints and other types of…

The Census data­base has upgraded to a new system and a new inter­face. There are several aides to help you navi­gate the new system: A user guide (available in English only) A webpage with FAQs (in German and English) A help video (available in English only) A live discus­sion and trai­ning session…

Student Assistant Clara Sawatzki has written the first blog post for Verso, the new Hypo­theses rese­arch blog of the Census. Please follow the link below for the full version of her text, published in both English and in German. Geflü­gelte Pferde und schne­cken­för­mige Delfine: Eine erwei­terte Sicht…

We are pleased to announce the launch of the Hypo­theses rese­arch blog Verso, a plat­form for short, illus­trated essays dealing with the history, metho­do­logy, tech­no­logy and use of the Census of Antique Works of Art and Archi­tec­ture Known in the Renais­sance. Verso will offer members of the Census…

The Census data­base will be unavailable this Friday, January 13, 2023, for one day due to a system update. All data will be copied that day and migrated into a new data­base, which will be available starting in February 2023. The old data­base will be acces­sible again as usual by Monday, January 16,…

Over the past year efforts have been underway to inte­grate the Census data accor­ding to the CIDOC-CRM frame­work so that its resources can be shared with those of other projects.  Inte­gra­tion with similar art-histo­rical projects is underway through colla­bo­ra­tion with CORDH, and to link Census data…

From 17 November 2022 to 27 February 2023, the Fonda­zione Prada in Milan will be hosting a new exhi­bi­tion on the recep­tion of anti­qui­ties from the Medieval to Baroque era. Follo­wing up on the successful ‘Serial / Portable Classic’ (2015), Salva­tore Settis and…

The Institut für Kunst- und Bild­ge­schichte is very pleased to welcome the first Census x Hertziana Fellow, Juan Carlos Mantilla, who has begun a 6‑month rese­arch project titled, ‘The Early Modern Inven­tion of the Ancient Andes’.  During his fellow­ship, Mantilla will parti­ci­pate in both the Census…

We are very pleased to announce that the Census project has become a member of the inter­na­tional consor­tium CORDH, Consor­tium for Open Rese­arch Data in the Huma­ni­ties.  This group brings toge­ther rese­arch insti­tu­tions committed to deve­lo­ping shared data models, using in parti­cular in CDOC-CRM, in…

The program “Art History in a Global Context” at the Biblio­theca Hertziana – Max Planck Insti­tute for Art History and the “Census of Antique Works of Art and Archi­tec­ture Known in the Renais­sance” at the Institut für Kunst– und Bild­ge­schichte, Humboldt–Universität zu Berlin, are pleased to…

In 2021–2022, George Bruseker and Denitsa Nenova of Takin.solutions have been coor­di­na­ting the Census data with the semantic frame­work used most often for cultural heri­tage data, the CIDOC-CRM. More speci­fi­cally, they have been alig­ning the Census data with the CIDOC-CRM model­ling stan­dards for…

At the Renais­sance society of America meeting in Dublin, Ireland on 2 April, 2022, Kath­leen Chris­tian and Cammy Brot­hers co-chaired a double-session on the topic of “The Anti­qua­rian Drawing as a Site of Crea­tive Inven­tion.” The event marks one of the initia­tives of the current Census research…

On May 2, 2022, Kath­leen Chris­tian and Franz Engel (HU Berlin) toge­ther with Denitsa Nenova (Takin.solutions Athens) will present the upco­ming deve­lo­p­ment of the trans­for­ma­tion of Census data into Linked Open Data (LOD). The Census team was invited by NFDI4Culture’s Working Group on Data Standards…

As part of a major tech­nical update which is curr­ently underway, the Census data­base will have a new URL and from April 21, 2022 will be available at https://database.census.de. For a minimum of one year, a redi­rect will be set up so that links to Census records from other data­bases and websites…

On 18 March the exhi­bi­tion I Farnese. Archi­tet­tura, Arte, Potere will open in Parma at the Comp­lesso monu­men­tale della Pilotta. It will continue until 31 July, 2022. The exhi­bi­tion, curated by Simone Verde, will will take a compre­hen­sive view on the Farnese family’s coll­ec­tions and their patronage…

The 75th anni­ver­sary of the Census of Antique Works of Art and Archi­tec­ture Known in the Renais­sance falls in 2021, and to mark the occa­sion a group of students at the Humboldt-Univer­sität and the Warburg Insti­tute have created an online exhi­bi­tion, ’75 Years, 1946–2021. From Index Cards to Online…

The latest issue of Pegasus, number 20, offers a broad spec­trum of ​​rese­arch on the recep­tion of anti­quity. Among the contri­bu­tions is an article by Henri De Ried­matten, which lays the foun­da­tions for future rese­arch on the icono­graphy of Lucretia in the 16th century. Lothar Sickel’s archival…

A photo campaign begun in 2021 and which will continue over the next years will add thou­sands of new photo­graphs to the data­base. This wide-ranging campaign will signi­fi­cantly improve the visual resources of the Census, both for antique monu­ments and for Renaiss­sance works of art. The Institute…

In 2021 the Census is working with the company Takin.solutions to make the Census data Linked Open Data. Although the current Census data­base is an open access resource that is freely available online, its data cannot curr­ently be linked to that of other rese­arch projects. The first step towards…

With the appoint­ment of Kath­leen Chris­tian as Professor of Early Modern Art at the Institut für Kunst- und Bild­ge­schichte in the Summer of 2020, the Humboldt-Univer­sität and the Berlin Univer­sity Alli­ance have provided new funding for the deve­lo­p­ment and reno­va­tion of the Census data­base. This…