Schools of art represent one of the building blocks of art history. The notion of a school of art emerged in artistic discourse and disseminated across various countries in Europe during the early ...modern period. Whilst a school of art essentially denotes a group of artists or artworks, it came to be configured in multiple ways, encompassing different meanings of learning, origin, style, or nation, and mediated in various forms via academies, literature, collections, markets and galleries. Moreover, it contributed to competitive debate around the hierarchy of art and artists in Europe. The ensuing fundamental instability of the notion of a school of art helped to create a pluriform panorama of both distinct and interconnected artistic traditions within the European art world. This edited collection brings together 20 articles devoted to selected case studies from the Italian peninsula, the Low Countries, France, Spain, England, the German Empire, and Russia.
•ICC++ is explainable and content-based image retrieval method.•ICC++ is based on compositional patterns for semantic understanding of art historical images.•Introducing Web Gallery of Art 500 ...(WGA500) dataset - to encourage further research in this domain.•Rigorous evaluations against traditional methods, deep features & SOTA methods.•Our method outperforms SOTA, while has an advantage over deep features in terms of explainability.
Image compositions are helpful in the study of image structures and assist in discovering the semantics of the underlying scene portrayed across art forms and styles. With the digitization of artworks in recent years, thousands of images of a particular scene or narrative could potentially be linked together. However, manually linking this data with consistent objectiveness can be a highly challenging and time-consuming task. In this work, we present a novel approach called Image Composition Canvas (ICC++) to compare and retrieve images having similar compositional elements. ICC++ is an improvement over ICC, specializing in generating low and high-level features (compositional elements) motivated by Max Imdahl’s work. To this end, we present a rigorous quantitative and qualitative comparison of our approach with traditional and state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods showing that our proposed method outperforms all of them. In combination with deep features, our method outperforms the best deep learning-based method, opening the research direction for explainable machine learning for digital humanities. We will release the code and the data post-publication.
Some of the recent acquisitions by the Rijksmuseum include: Jesus and the Canaanite Woman, Northern Netherlands?, c. 1550-55Oil on oak panel, 85 x 67 cm, Inscribed, on the reverse: Rap Sanc: Vrbino. ...pinx. / 1510; Model: Willem Danielsz van Tetrode (Delft c. 1525-1580 Westphalia), Rome or Florence, c. 1562-66 Cast: anonymous, Florence (?), c. 1560-1620 Écorché (flayed figure)Bronze, with warm brown organic patina, h. 43.5 cm; Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (Leiden 1606-1669 Amsterdam)The Standard Bearer, 1636Oil on canvas, 120.5 x 97.5 cm, Signed and dated, lower left: Rembrandt f/1636; Maria van Oosterwijck (Nootdorp 1630-1693 Uitdam)Vanitas Still Life, c. 1675, Oil on canvas, 82 x 105 cm.
I am pleased to announce that Konsthistorisk Tidskrift/Journal of Art History has been granted the highest ranking in The Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers, which ...rates scholarly publishing channels around the world on a bibliometric scale from 0 to 2. 1 The journal is one of only 20 international journals on art history that has been acknowledged as a level 2 publication. The promotion to level 2 is testimony to the journal's position as a prominent publishing channel that reaches an international readership and acknowledges the journal as the leading peer-reviewed periodical on art history in the Nordic countries.
Between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries, the west central African kingdom of Kongo practiced Christianity and actively participated in the Atlantic world as an independent, cosmopolitan ...realm. Drawing on an expansive and largely unpublished set of objects, images, and documents, Cecile Fromont examines the advent of Kongo Christian visual culture and traces its development across four centuries marked by war, the Atlantic slave trade, and, finally, the rise of nineteenth-century European colonialism. By offering an extensive analysis of the religious, political, and artistic innovations through which the Kongo embraced Christianity, Fromont approaches the country's conversion as a dynamic process that unfolded across centuries.The African kingdom's elite independently and gradually intertwined old and new, local and foreign religious thought, political concepts, and visual forms to mold a novel and constantly evolving Kongo Christian worldview. Fromont sheds light on the cross-cultural exchanges between Africa, Europe, and Latin America that shaped the early modern world, and she outlines the religious, artistic, and social background of the countless men and women displaced by the slave trade from central Africa to all corners of the Atlantic world.
Japanische Holzschnitte (ukiyo-e) zählen heute zu den berühmtesten Kunstformen Ostasiens. Doch wie haben die Drucke aus der Edo-Zeit diesen Status erhalten? Als Ursprung für ihren Weltruhm wird ...häufig auf die Japonismus-Epoche Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts verwiesen. Dabei blenden Kunstwissenschaft und Museumswelt aus, dass die Drucke in den letzten siebzig Jahren vielfach präsentiert wurden. Marina Sammeck verfolgt, wie japanische Holzschnitte durch Ausstellungen und Allianzen zu einer der populärsten japanischen Kunstformen im Westen aufsteigen konnten. Im Mittelpunkt ihrer Analyse steht die Beschreibung des Prozesses, in dem spezifische Objekte zu »Kunst« werden - und was dieser für die zukünftige Ausstellungspraxis bedeutet.
Addendum
The Art bulletin (New York, N.Y.),
01/2021, Volume:
103, Issue:
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Journal Article
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We recognize that the coeditors’ note for the issue published in September 2020 could have been misunderstood. Any equivalence between the movement of people and the movement of objects was never ...intended. We apologize if the note minimizes the horrors of human suffering. We remain steadfast in our commitment to diversity and inclusivity. And we continue to welcome and encourage the submissions that address race and art history.
In Picturing Casablanca , Susan Ossman probes the shape and
texture of mass images in Casablanca, from posters, films, and
videotapes to elections, staged political spectacles, and changing
rituals. ...In a fluid style that blends ethnographic narrative,
cultural reportage, and the author's firsthand experiences, Ossman
sketches a radically new vision of Casablanca as a place where
social practices, traditions, and structures of power are in flux.
Ossman guides the reader through the labyrinthine byways of the
city, where state bureaucracy and state power, the media and its
portrayal of the outside world, and people's everyday lives are all
on view. She demonstrates how images not only reflect but inform
and alter daily experience. In the Arab League Park, teenagers use
fashion and flirting to attract potential mates, defying
traditional rules of conduct. Wedding ceremonies are transformed by
the ubiquitous video camera, which becomes the event's most
important spectator. Political leaders are molded by the state's
adept manipulation of visual media. From Madonna videos and the
TV's transformation of social time, to changing gender roles and
new ways of producing and disseminating information, the Morocco
that Ossman reveals is a telling commentary on the consequences of
colonial planning, the influence of modern media, and the rituals
of power and representation enacted by the state.
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