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The Journal of Aesthetic Education, 2008
Going Dutch: The Dutch Presence in America 1609-2009, 2008
One of the earliest "schools" of American painting, the Hudson Valley patroon painters,... more One of the earliest "schools" of American painting, the Hudson Valley patroon painters, has often been considered to have derived from seventeenth-century English portraiture. Portraits of English aristocrats appealed to Dutch patroons as displays of the kind of social status they aspired to in their new country British mezzotints after original paintings by Sir Godfrey Kneller and others provided the patroon painters with readily available models on which to base their portraits of wealthy Dutch Americans. Unfortunately, this convincing analysis vastly underestimates the influence of Dutch art and taste on the development of these paintings. Dutch art in all its forms was the first art to come to New York, and the first art to be produced here. Its influence lasted well into the eighteenth century and through an onslaught of British portraiture, which was in itself an offshoot of the Netherlandish portrait tradition. Keywords:American painting; Dutch art; Hudson Valley patroon painters
Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art, 2013
Art Libraries Journal
The PHAROS consortium of fourteen international art historical photo archives is digitizing the o... more The PHAROS consortium of fourteen international art historical photo archives is digitizing the over 20 million images (with accompanying documentation) in its combined collections and has begun to construct a common access platform using Linked Open Data and the ResearchSpace software. In addition to resulting in a rich and substantial database of images for art-historical research, the PHAROS initiative supports the development of shared standards for mapping and sharing photo archive metadata, as well as for best practices for working with large digital image collections and conducting computational image analysis. Moreover, alongside their digitization efforts, PHAROS member institutions are considering the kinds of art-historical questions the resulting database of images could be used to research. This article indicates some of the prospective research directions stimulated by modern technologies, with the aim of exploring the epistemological potential of photographic archives...
Art Libraries Journal
The PHAROS consortium of fourteen international art historical photo archives is digitizing the o... more The PHAROS consortium of fourteen international art historical photo archives is digitizing the over 20 million images (with accompanying documentation) in its combined collections and has begun to construct a common access platform using Linked Open Data and the ResearchSpace software. In addition to resulting in a rich and substantial database of images for art-historical research, the PHAROS initiative supports the development of shared standards for mapping and sharing photo archive metadata, as well as for best practices for working with large digital image collections and conducting computational image analysis. Moreover, alongside their digitization efforts, PHAROS member institutions are considering the kinds of art-historical questions the resulting database of images could be used to research. This article indicates some of the prospective research directions stimulated by modern technologies, with the aim of exploring the epistemological potential of photographic archives...
XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students
The Frick Art Reference Library has been researching the potential of computer technology to enha... more The Frick Art Reference Library has been researching the potential of computer technology to enhance the methods art historians have historically used to do their research. The Frick has launched a number of exciting new collaborative projects with the hopes of bringing the normally staid world of art history into the 21st century.
IEEE computer graphics and applications, Jan 5, 2017
Art historians have traditionally used physical light boxes to prepare exhibits or curate collect... more Art historians have traditionally used physical light boxes to prepare exhibits or curate collections. On a light box, they can place slides or printed images, move the images around at will, group them as desired, and visually compare them. The transition to digital images has rendered this workflow obsolete. Now, art historians lack well-designed, unified interactive software tools that effectively support the operations they perform with physical light boxes. To address this problem, we designed ARIES (ARt Image Exploration Space), an interactive image manipulation system that enables the exploration and organization of fine digital art. The system allows images to be compared in multiple ways, offering dynamic overlays analogous to a physical light box, and supporting advanced image comparisons and feature-matching functions, available through computational image processing. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our system to support art historians tasks through real use cases.
Burlington Magazine, 2012
The article discusses a c. 1588 landscape painting by Jan Brueghel the Elder, suggesting that the... more The article discusses a c. 1588 landscape painting by Jan Brueghel the Elder, suggesting that the painting "Landscape with hunters," in a private collection in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, can be attributed to Brueghel. The author discusses the depiction of the landscape in the Brueghel and Pieter Paul Ruben's painting "Allegory of Sight," and compares the landscape to a version by Pieter Brueghel the Younger. The author suggests that both versions are made after a painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
... ITEM METADATA RECORD. Title: Paul Bril: the drawings. Other Titles: The drawings of Paul Bril... more ... ITEM METADATA RECORD. Title: Paul Bril: the drawings. Other Titles: The drawings of Paul Bril: a study of their role in seventeenth-century European landscape. Authors: Rudy, Louisa Wood. ...
Journal of the Historians of Netherlandish Art Volume 5: Issue 2 (2013)
... ITEM METADATA RECORD. Title: Paul Bril: the drawings. Other Titles: The drawings of Paul Bril... more ... ITEM METADATA RECORD. Title: Paul Bril: the drawings. Other Titles: The drawings of Paul Bril: a study of their role in seventeenth-century European landscape. Authors: Rudy, Louisa Wood. ...
The Journal of Aesthetic Education, 2008
Going Dutch: The Dutch Presence in America 1609-2009, 2008
One of the earliest "schools" of American painting, the Hudson Valley patroon painters,... more One of the earliest "schools" of American painting, the Hudson Valley patroon painters, has often been considered to have derived from seventeenth-century English portraiture. Portraits of English aristocrats appealed to Dutch patroons as displays of the kind of social status they aspired to in their new country British mezzotints after original paintings by Sir Godfrey Kneller and others provided the patroon painters with readily available models on which to base their portraits of wealthy Dutch Americans. Unfortunately, this convincing analysis vastly underestimates the influence of Dutch art and taste on the development of these paintings. Dutch art in all its forms was the first art to come to New York, and the first art to be produced here. Its influence lasted well into the eighteenth century and through an onslaught of British portraiture, which was in itself an offshoot of the Netherlandish portrait tradition. Keywords:American painting; Dutch art; Hudson Valley patroon painters
Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art, 2013
Art Libraries Journal
The PHAROS consortium of fourteen international art historical photo archives is digitizing the o... more The PHAROS consortium of fourteen international art historical photo archives is digitizing the over 20 million images (with accompanying documentation) in its combined collections and has begun to construct a common access platform using Linked Open Data and the ResearchSpace software. In addition to resulting in a rich and substantial database of images for art-historical research, the PHAROS initiative supports the development of shared standards for mapping and sharing photo archive metadata, as well as for best practices for working with large digital image collections and conducting computational image analysis. Moreover, alongside their digitization efforts, PHAROS member institutions are considering the kinds of art-historical questions the resulting database of images could be used to research. This article indicates some of the prospective research directions stimulated by modern technologies, with the aim of exploring the epistemological potential of photographic archives...
Art Libraries Journal
The PHAROS consortium of fourteen international art historical photo archives is digitizing the o... more The PHAROS consortium of fourteen international art historical photo archives is digitizing the over 20 million images (with accompanying documentation) in its combined collections and has begun to construct a common access platform using Linked Open Data and the ResearchSpace software. In addition to resulting in a rich and substantial database of images for art-historical research, the PHAROS initiative supports the development of shared standards for mapping and sharing photo archive metadata, as well as for best practices for working with large digital image collections and conducting computational image analysis. Moreover, alongside their digitization efforts, PHAROS member institutions are considering the kinds of art-historical questions the resulting database of images could be used to research. This article indicates some of the prospective research directions stimulated by modern technologies, with the aim of exploring the epistemological potential of photographic archives...
XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students
The Frick Art Reference Library has been researching the potential of computer technology to enha... more The Frick Art Reference Library has been researching the potential of computer technology to enhance the methods art historians have historically used to do their research. The Frick has launched a number of exciting new collaborative projects with the hopes of bringing the normally staid world of art history into the 21st century.
IEEE computer graphics and applications, Jan 5, 2017
Art historians have traditionally used physical light boxes to prepare exhibits or curate collect... more Art historians have traditionally used physical light boxes to prepare exhibits or curate collections. On a light box, they can place slides or printed images, move the images around at will, group them as desired, and visually compare them. The transition to digital images has rendered this workflow obsolete. Now, art historians lack well-designed, unified interactive software tools that effectively support the operations they perform with physical light boxes. To address this problem, we designed ARIES (ARt Image Exploration Space), an interactive image manipulation system that enables the exploration and organization of fine digital art. The system allows images to be compared in multiple ways, offering dynamic overlays analogous to a physical light box, and supporting advanced image comparisons and feature-matching functions, available through computational image processing. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our system to support art historians tasks through real use cases.
Burlington Magazine, 2012
The article discusses a c. 1588 landscape painting by Jan Brueghel the Elder, suggesting that the... more The article discusses a c. 1588 landscape painting by Jan Brueghel the Elder, suggesting that the painting "Landscape with hunters," in a private collection in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, can be attributed to Brueghel. The author discusses the depiction of the landscape in the Brueghel and Pieter Paul Ruben's painting "Allegory of Sight," and compares the landscape to a version by Pieter Brueghel the Younger. The author suggests that both versions are made after a painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
... ITEM METADATA RECORD. Title: Paul Bril: the drawings. Other Titles: The drawings of Paul Bril... more ... ITEM METADATA RECORD. Title: Paul Bril: the drawings. Other Titles: The drawings of Paul Bril: a study of their role in seventeenth-century European landscape. Authors: Rudy, Louisa Wood. ...
Journal of the Historians of Netherlandish Art Volume 5: Issue 2 (2013)
... ITEM METADATA RECORD. Title: Paul Bril: the drawings. Other Titles: The drawings of Paul Bril... more ... ITEM METADATA RECORD. Title: Paul Bril: the drawings. Other Titles: The drawings of Paul Bril: a study of their role in seventeenth-century European landscape. Authors: Rudy, Louisa Wood. ...