Call For Papers: The Future of the Antique, Warburg Insti­tute and Insti­tute of Clas­sical Studies (Univer­sity of London) Wednesday 10, Thursday 11, Friday 12 December 2025 Dead­line: 15 May 2025 The original 1981 Yale Univer­sity Press edition of Taste and the Antique signi­fi­cantly shaped the field’s…

A new book in the series All’an­tica is planned for release in May in print, and in ebook format. Jacopo Galli, and Michelangelo’s Bacchus, 1471–1572, Kath­leen W. Chris­tian On Michelangelo’s first day in Rome, in June 1496, Cardinal Raffaele Riario asked him if he could create ‘some­thing beautiful’…

The Codex Coner, now in the coll­ec­tion of the Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, is an extra­or­di­nary album of archi­tec­tural drawings from the sixte­enth century. The drawings, by the Floren­tine draughtsman Bernardo della Volpaia (c.1475–1521/22), were highly prized in their day and many were copied…

La forma delle Muse: un dialogo di parole e imma­gini Univer­sità degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo 9 — 11 DICEMBRE 2024  Palazzo Bona­ven­tura — Aula Magna Retto­rale, Via Saffi, 2, Urbino  LUNEDÌ 9 dicembre (sessione pome­ri­diana) — ore 15.00–19.00  Saluti isti­tu­zi­o­nali  Giorgio Calca­gnini, Magnifico…

A new essay in both English and German versions has been added to the Census rese­arch blog, Verso: ‘Forgery, Imita­tion, Emula­tion: the Crea­tion of Anti­quity in the Renais­sance’ / ‘Fakt und Fake: Eine Antike neuzeit­li­cher Krea­tion’ by Census student assistant Jorinde Lea Miller. The Census database…

Explo­ring the Legacy of the Past in Venice: Networks and Quan­ti­ta­tive Methods in Archaeo­logy and Art History, Inter­na­tional Sympo­sium 5 December 2024 3:00–5:30 PM Chair: Guido Calda­relli (CNR-ISC/Ca’ Foscari Univer­sity of Venice) 3:00 Keynote Speech Visions for the Future of the “Census of Antique…

The data from the Census data­base is regu­larly exported and depo­sited on the Humboldt University’s e‑doc server, the university’s open access publi­ca­tion portal. About every 6 months, the Census data (exclu­ding image files) is exported, trans­formed into RDF files, and published on the e‑Doc server…

The inter­na­tional confe­rence, La fabrique de l’an­tique: Les sculp­tures anti­ques entre coll­ec­tions et insti­tu­tions muséales 16e – 19e siècles will take place in Rome and in Paris between the 21st and the 25th of October, 2024. The programme is offered jointly by the Académie de France à Rome /…

Between November 2024 and July 2025 Karl-Magnus Brose will be hosted 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 expanded in 2023 to include the Warburg Insti­tute. Karl…

In the Census data­base, many records are asso­ciated with unique Census IDs: not only Antique Monu­ments and Post­clas­sical Works, but also Images, Loca­tions, Periods, Styles, Persons, and Biblio­gra­phic Records. While Census IDs have long been used by rese­ar­chers as a means of refe­ren­cing the Census…

Crea­ti­vity and Inven­tion in Anti­qua­rian Drawings (1400–1600) Work­shop, Ashmo­lean Museum, September 5–6, 2024 An upco­ming work­shop to be held at the Ashmo­lean Museum will center on the crea­ti­vity and inven­tion of Early Modern drawings of anti­qui­ties, which are still too often unders­tood as…

Louvre Museum, Paris, 26 June-11 November 2024 The Torlonia marbles, the most exten­sive private coll­ec­tion of Roman antique sculp­ture ever assem­bled, were acquired by the Prin­cipi Torlonia in the 19th century in Rome. Now, for the first time since the mid-20th century, they are being displayed to…

Work­shop, 11–13 June, 2024, Biblio­theca Hertziana, Villino Stro­ganoff, Via Grego­riana 22 Kath­leen Chris­tian and Katha­rina Beden­bender will parti­ci­pate in a second work­shop on the topic ‘Towards a Colla­bo­ra­tive Cultural Analysis of the City of Rome’ at the Biblio­theca Hertziana in Rome on June…

Traces et empreints dans l’art du Moyen-Âge et des temps moderns Follo­wing meetings at the Univer­sité Catho­lique de Louvain and at the Humboldt-Univer­sität in Berlin, the group Logi­ques du négatif will be holding a third sympo­sium at the Univer­sity of Fribourg on 15–16 May, 2024. The aim of this…

At the Renais­sance Society of America meeting in Chicago, 21–23 March 2024, three sessions will be devoted to topics related to the recep­tion of the anti­quity. These sessions will explore themes related to antique recep­tion in Italy and Medi­ter­ra­nean, Nort­hern Europe, and the Eastern Adriatic.…

The Institut für Kunst- und Bild­ge­schichte, Humboldt-Univer­sität zu Berlin, the Biblio­theca Hertziana – Max Planck Insti­tute for Art History, and the Warburg Insti­tute, School of Advanced Study, Univer­sity of London, are pleased to announce a fellow­ship in Berlin, Rome, and London, offered at…

Linked data (LD) has been a focus of much acti­vity in the fields of cultural heri­tage, huma­ni­ties and art and archi­tec­tural history over the past several years, as evidenced by projects inclu­ding Yale’s Lux search tool and the conver­sion to LD of the data in the Census and the Getty Provenance…

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 scheme, remi­nis­cent of the now…

Between January and June 2024 Barbara Furlotti 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 expanded in 2023 to include the Warburg Institute…

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.…

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 Romanae. The work was never published and…

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…

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,…

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 Rem Kool­haas have joined together…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…