Research Projects

Historical Spaces in Flavio Biondo's Italia illustrata

Texts and maps do not simply describe landscapes and territories, they create intellectual spaces. Based on Flavio Biondo's Italia illustrata from the 15th century, the research project examines the specific textual expression of space that Biondo creates in his literary description of Italy by combining topographical and historical information from antiquity onward. Cognitive-semantic analyses of the text are studied side by side with historical maps which require special attention as they process information visually and store spatial knowledge in a graphical encoding. Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Tanja Michalsky

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Naples Digital Archive

Historical maps provide an invaluable tool for understanding the form and development of a city. The project will involve combining, for the first time, georeferenced historical maps with graphic and iconographic materials relating to the city of Naples. Based on digital layers, the result will allow movement through the city in time and space. Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Tanja Michalsky

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Gesture Atlas

An interactive visualization of clustered images. Powered by OpenPose (CMU Perceptual Computing Lab) and Pix-Plot (Yale DH Lab). Principal Investigator: Prof. Leonardo Impett

Facades of Siena

Siena retains a unique historic city centre that was formed in the Middle Ages and transformed, more in its appearance than in its fabric, throughout the 20th century. The research database (2005–2007) brings together the available historical-artistic information on the façades of most major streets. The data allows for the reconnaissance of the existing buildings, historical-artistic analysis, reconstruction of building phases, and presents a bibliography as well as a typologic apparatus. Principal Investigator: Dr. Matthias Quast †.

Galleries of European Palaces

The aim of the research project (2007–2013) consists in a census of galleries in European palaces 1650–1850 that were commissioned, furnished and inhabited by sovereigns, princes, dignitaries, powerful statesmen and their families. It is the fruit of a collaboration between the Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles, which initiated a research programme on the “Grande Galerie”, its typology, history, decoration and use, and the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome that provided technical expertise. Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Christina Strunck.

ArsRoma

This research database (2001–2019) focuses on art production in Rome from 1580–1630 and on history painting in particular. Technically it is based on ZUCCARO-and contains paintings, painters and their social and artistic environment in Rome as well as datasets for expressions, gestures and antique motives in their paintings. The Archivio Diagnostico Digitale - Corpus Caravaggesco, a database containing diagnostic information and technical images of 110 paintings from the circle of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio is also part of the project. Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Sybille Ebert-Schifferer.

3D-Bridge: A Baroque Architectural Project in Virtual Reality

The Hertziana's contribution to the 3D-Bridge project (2005–2006) is a computer-based visualization of Filippo Juvarra's design for the Concorso Clementino of 1705: A palace for three noble persons of equal range.The 3D-model reveals the conceptual thinking of this important european architect. The original drawings were scanned, prepared in Adobe Photoshop and used as sources for Autodesk Maya. The textured model was then edited in Unreal Editor for realtime presentation. The project succesfully shows how new technologies help to discover spatial relationships in a historical design.Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Hermann Schlimme †.

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