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New User Handbook and Changes to the Census Database
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…
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New User Handbook and Changes to the Census Database
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.…
Cooperation with Ubi erat Lupa
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…
Erasmus Fellow Giorgia Agostini
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…
New post for Verso by Christopher Lu
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…
New SPARQL Endpoint
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…
Census x Hertziana x Warburg Fellow: Hugh Cullimore
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…
New post for Verso by Juan Carlos G. Mantilla
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…
Towards a Collaborative Cultural Analysis of the City of Rome
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…
Warburg Institute joins Census x Hertziana Fellowship
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…
Contact: Transcultural Techniques and Metaphors of Imprinting (30–31 May)
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…
New database interface now live
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…
New post for Verso by Clara Sawatzki
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…
New Hypotheses blog: Verso
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…
Systemumstellung der Census-Datenbank
Diesen Freitag, den 13. Januar 2023, wird die Census-Datenbank für einen Tag nicht zu erreichen sein aufgrund einer Systemumstellung. Alle Daten werden an diesem Tag kopiert und in eine neue Datenbank eingespeist, die ab Februar 2023 verfügbar sein wird. Spätestens am Montag, dem 16. Januar 2023,…
The Census joins ARIADNEplus
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…
Recycling Beauty: Salvatore Settis and Rem Koolhaas in Milan
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 Rem Koolhaas have joined together…
The Early Modern Invention of the Ancient Andes
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…
The Census Joins CORDH
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…
New Census x Hertziana Fellowship
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…
Census Semantic Data Models published
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…
RSA Dublin, 4.2022
Beim Treffen der Renaissance Society of America am 2. April 2022 in Dublin, Irland, leiteten Kathleen Christian und Cammy Brothers gemeinsam eine Doppelsitzung zum Thema „The Antiquarian Drawing as a Site of Creative Invention“. Die Veranstaltung markiert eine der Initiativen des aktuellen…
NFDI4Culture Forum: Der Census als Linked Open Data
Am 2. Mai 2022 werden Kathleen Christian und Franz Engel (HU Berlin) gemeinsam mit Denitsa Nenova (Takin.solutions Athen) die anstehende Entwicklung der Census-Datenbank hin zu Linked Open Data (LOD) vorstellen. Das Census-Team wurde von der Arbeitsgruppe für Datenstandards und Datenqualität…
Neue Webadresse für die Census-Datenbank
Im Rahmen einer größeren technischen Aktualisierung, die derzeit durchgeführt wird, Die Datenbank des Census wird eine neue URL erhalten. Ab dem 21. April 2022 wird sie unter https://database.census.de verfügbar sein. Für mindestens ein Jahr wird eine Umleitung eingerichtet, so dass Links zur…
Ausstellung “I Farnese” in Parma
Am 18. März wurde die Ausstellung I Farnese. Architettura, Arte, Potere in Parma im Complesso monumentale della Pilotta eröffnet. Sie wird bis zum 31. Juli 2022 zu sehen sein. Die von Simone Verde kuratierte Ausstellung wird einen umfassenden Überblick über die Sammlungen der Familie Farnese und…
Jetzt online: Die Ausstellung zum 75. Jubiläum
Das 75-jährige Jubiläum des Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance findet 2021 statt. Aus diesem Anlass hat eine Gruppe von Student*innen der Humboldt-Universität und des Warburg Institutes die Online-Ausstellung „75 Jahre, 1946–2021. Von Karteikarten zur…
Pegasus Heft 20.2020 erschienen
Die jüngste, nunmehr zwanzigste Nummer des Pegasus entfaltet ein breites Themengebiet der Antikenrezeptionsforschung. Unter anderem werden mit dem Beitrag von Henri De Riedmatten neue Fundamente für die künftige Forschung zur Lukretia-Ikonographie im 16. Jahrhundert gelegt. Archivrecherchen Lothar…
Neue Fotokampagne
Die Census-Datenbank wird seit 2021 im Rahmen einer Fotokampagne, die bis 2022 fortgeführt wird, durch tausende neuer Fotos bereichert. Diese großangelegte Kampagne soll die visuellen Ressourcen aus Antike und Renaissance signifikant verbessern. Der Census war in der Lage Bilder zu erwerben und…
Der Census legt die Grundlagen für Linked Open Data
2021 arbeitet der Census gemeinsam mit der Firma Takin.solutions daran, den Census-Datenbestand als Linked Open Data aufzubereiten. Obwohl die derzeitige Census-Datenbank als Open-Access-Resource im Internet frei zugänglich ist, kann der Datenbestand aktuell nicht mit anderen Forschungsprojekten…
Neue Mittel für die Census-Datenbank
Mit der Berufung von Kathleen Christian als Professorin für Kunstgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit ans Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte zum Sommersemester 2020 haben die Humboldt-Universität und die Berlin University Alliance zusätzliche Mittel für den Ausbau und die Umgestaltung der…