This path is a commentary on the book, written by Caterina Agostini on 11 May 2022.
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1commentary2022-05-11T07:51:43-07:00Caterina Agostini3a93fb6353ab7b4287084e23865acdfa1d305df0407063When fresco cycles dating back to the 14th century in Padua were inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage list in July 2021, I designed a digital project to teach and showcase art and geospatial information of local artworks, as part of a larger cultural phenomenon and medieval studies worldwide.gallery2022-05-11T07:54:08-07:00Caterina Agostini3a93fb6353ab7b4287084e23865acdfa1d305df0Medieval and cultural history have come to the fore recently, with the celebration of 14th-century art in Italy, when fresco cycles within Padua city walls were inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage list in July 2021 (https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1623). Padua, located in the north-east of Italy, was named ‘Urbs Picta’ or ‘The Painted City’, in recognition of the main artists working on medieval fresco cycles in the 1300s – Giotto, Guariento di Arpo, Giusto de’ Menabuoi, Altichiero da Zevio, Jacopo Avanzi, and Jacopo da Verona. As medieval artists, patronage and schools have been ascertained, the question of local and global cultural heritage, however, invites further inquiries to examine the role of global collections and global medieval studies and narratives. The digital project I propose, “Digital Cultural Heritage: Medieval Padua Art in the UNESCO World Heritage List,” remedies this gap by analyzing fresco cycles in my hometown, Padua, as part of a larger cultural phenomenon in Italy, and current medieval studies worldwide.
By addressing advanced undergraduate, and graduate students, this project has a pedagogical approach and strategy integrating a visual section, and a mapping section as well. We will collect information on medieval artists and schools, and also current cultural heritage institutions where artworks are located. Next, we will build geospatial datasets and integrate provenance notes for collection artifacts, in light of the Getty Provenance Index Database (https://github.com/chnm/doingdh) to trace artists’ work, training, and schools, and visualize such information through contemporary and historical maps from the David Rumsey Map Collection (https://www.davidrumsey.com). Outcomes include a digital collection and exhibition, with International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) digital images allowing for deep zoom, comparison, and annotation of images. Artworks made in Italy, and showcased worldwide, offer ideal frames for geospatial investigations of art in Padua, the Veneto region and Italy, and world-class museum collections today.
12022-05-11T05:34:51-07:00Caterina Agostini3a93fb6353ab7b4287084e23865acdfa1d305df0Padua Urbs Picta, or The Painted City3plain2022-05-11T07:55:30-07:00Caterina Agostini3a93fb6353ab7b4287084e23865acdfa1d305df0
1media/UNESCO_World_Heritage_Logo.png2022-05-10T07:53:29-07:00Caterina Agostini3a93fb6353ab7b4287084e23865acdfa1d305df0UNESCO9The Unesco World Heritage Listimage_header2022-05-11T06:30:53-07:00Caterina Agostini3a93fb6353ab7b4287084e23865acdfa1d305df0
1media/Santo-PadovaUrbsPicta-021_thumb.jpeg2022-05-11T06:24:35-07:00Basilica of Saint Anthony, Saint James Chapel1media/Santo-PadovaUrbsPicta-021.jpegplain2022-05-11T06:24:35-07:00
1media/Palazzo_Ragione_WC_thumb.jpeg2022-05-11T07:38:48-07:00Palazzo della Ragione, Padua1media/Palazzo_Ragione_WC.jpegplain2022-05-11T07:38:48-07:00
This path is a commentary on the book, written by Caterina Agostini on 11 May 2022.