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Publications by Ellen Prokop
In "Collecting Spanish Art: Spain’s Golden Age and America’s Gilded Age," edited by Inge Reist and José Luis Colomer, 3–29. New York: The Frick Collection in association with CEEH, Madrid, and CSA, New York, 2012
Discusses the 1914 renovations to Fenway Court, the museum founded by Isabella Stewart Gardner (1... more Discusses the 1914 renovations to Fenway Court, the museum founded by Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840–1924), including the design and decoration of the Spanish Chapel and Cloister.
Collecting El Greco in Nineteenth-Century Europe: The Pre-History of ‘Grecomania’
In "El Greco Comes to America: The Discovery of a Modern Old Master," edited by Inge Reist and José Luis Colomer. New York: The Frick Collection in association with CEEH, Madrid, and CSA, New York, 2017
Hispanic Research Journal, Jan 1, 2007
The final expense report for the construction and decoration of the new retrochoir of the cathedr... more The final expense report for the construction and decoration of the new retrochoir of the cathedral of Burgos contains an inconsistency that may reflect conflicting opinions among the early modern clergy concerning religious imagery displayed in a public setting. The Benedictine artist and architect Fray Juan Ricci was one of the artists involved in this important commission: Ricci was awarded 5,515½ reales for a series of six paintings destined for the side altars, a series that included The Ecstasy of St Francis, one of his most powerful celebrations of visionary experience. Yet soon after Ricci’s series was completed, two canons, Diego and Manuel de la Moneda, purchased an additional canvas of St Francis from a local artist, perhaps as a replacement for Ricci’s version of the miraculous event. The possible controversy surrounding Ricci’s painting provides an opportunity to examine the role of devotional painting in seventeenth-century Castile.
In "Art in Spain and the Hispanic World: Essays in Honour of Jonathan Brown," edited by Sarah Schroth, 106–27. London: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2010
Discusses a painting recently attributed to Fray Juan Ricci (1600–1681) and poses a possible inte... more Discusses a painting recently attributed to Fray Juan Ricci (1600–1681) and poses a possible interpretive model for addressing the artist's work.
Re-viewing Digital Technologies and Art History
The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/category/issues/issue-twelve/), 2018
Theme issue of "The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy" co-edited with Kimon Keramidas.
AI and the Digitized Photoarchive: Promoting Access and Discoverability
Art Documentation, 2021
The Frick Art Reference Library in New York launched a pilot project with Stanford University, Co... more The Frick Art Reference Library in New York launched a pilot project with Stanford University, Cornell University, and the University of Toronto to develop an algorithm that applies a local classification system based on visual elements to the library’s digitized Photoarchive. As a test case, the Cornell/Toronto/Stanford team focused on a dataset of digital reproductions of North American paintings and drawings and employed recent advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning to produce automatic image classifiers. The results of this preliminary experiment suggest that automatic image classifiers have the potential to become powerful tools in metadata creation and image retrieval.
Archives, Access and Artificial Intelligence
This chapter introduces the technical aspects of a useful model for effective interaction between... more This chapter introduces the technical aspects of a useful model for effective interaction between the fields of computer science and cultural heritage preservation.
Život umjetnosti: Journal for Modern and Contemporary Art and Architecture, 2019
“Digital Art History for the Masses? The Role of the Public Digital Art History Lab.” Život umjet... more “Digital Art History for the Masses? The Role of the Public Digital Art History Lab.” Život umjetnosti: Journal for Modern and Contemporary Art and Architecture 105, no. 2, 196–213.
Život umjetnosti
Digital Art History (DAH), which embraces massive datasets, innovative methodologies based on com... more Digital Art History (DAH), which embraces massive datasets, innovative methodologies based on computational techniques, and collaborative paradigms, promises to offer new perspectives on the history of art. For example, DAH has the potential to shift the discipline’s focus from the traditional topics of inquiry to less explored aspects of the field—in short, to reposition the discipline’s central preoccupations with the issues of patronage, which are the concerns of the elite, to broader structures at work in a society, including the experiences of the marginalized. This displacement from center to periphery is not restricted to DAH research questions, but often applies to other aspects of DAH as well: to its status within the Digital Humanities (DH); to the demographic it frequently attracts; and to the infrastructure(s) developed to support it. Yet despite this potential, in many respects DAH occupies the periphery. This essay problematizes these issues as crystallized by the esta...
Review of "The Spanish Craze: America’s Fascination with the Hispanic World, 1779–1939," by Richard L. Kagan
Bulletin of the Comediantes
Review of "August L. Mayer y la pintura española: Ribera, Goya, El Greco, Velázquez," by Teresa Posada Kubissa
caa.reviews, 2018
Review of "Re-Reading Leonardo: The “Treatise on Painting” across Europe, 1550–1900," edited by Claire Farago
caa.reviews, 2011
Teaching Documents by Ellen Prokop
Undergraduate seminar on the life, career and historiography of Caravaggio.
Graduate seminar on the urban morphology of early modern Rome. Other themes of the course include... more Graduate seminar on the urban morphology of early modern Rome. Other themes of the course include the patronage of the papal courts and Counter-Reformation painting.
Undergraduate lecture on Baroque and Rococo art and architecture in Europe and the New World.
Undergraduate survey of museum studies.
Undergraduate seminar on the life, career and historiography of Diego Velázquez.
Preliminary bibliography for undergraduate research in Baroque art and architecture (sources in E... more Preliminary bibliography for undergraduate research in Baroque art and architecture (sources in English only).
Preliminary bibliography for undergraduate research in Italian Renaissance art and architecture (... more Preliminary bibliography for undergraduate research in Italian Renaissance art and architecture (sources in English only).
Key to some of the most popular methodological approaches currently applied in the study of art h... more Key to some of the most popular methodological approaches currently applied in the study of art history in America.
In "Collecting Spanish Art: Spain’s Golden Age and America’s Gilded Age," edited by Inge Reist and José Luis Colomer, 3–29. New York: The Frick Collection in association with CEEH, Madrid, and CSA, New York, 2012
Discusses the 1914 renovations to Fenway Court, the museum founded by Isabella Stewart Gardner (1... more Discusses the 1914 renovations to Fenway Court, the museum founded by Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840–1924), including the design and decoration of the Spanish Chapel and Cloister.
Collecting El Greco in Nineteenth-Century Europe: The Pre-History of ‘Grecomania’
In "El Greco Comes to America: The Discovery of a Modern Old Master," edited by Inge Reist and José Luis Colomer. New York: The Frick Collection in association with CEEH, Madrid, and CSA, New York, 2017
Hispanic Research Journal, Jan 1, 2007
The final expense report for the construction and decoration of the new retrochoir of the cathedr... more The final expense report for the construction and decoration of the new retrochoir of the cathedral of Burgos contains an inconsistency that may reflect conflicting opinions among the early modern clergy concerning religious imagery displayed in a public setting. The Benedictine artist and architect Fray Juan Ricci was one of the artists involved in this important commission: Ricci was awarded 5,515½ reales for a series of six paintings destined for the side altars, a series that included The Ecstasy of St Francis, one of his most powerful celebrations of visionary experience. Yet soon after Ricci’s series was completed, two canons, Diego and Manuel de la Moneda, purchased an additional canvas of St Francis from a local artist, perhaps as a replacement for Ricci’s version of the miraculous event. The possible controversy surrounding Ricci’s painting provides an opportunity to examine the role of devotional painting in seventeenth-century Castile.
In "Art in Spain and the Hispanic World: Essays in Honour of Jonathan Brown," edited by Sarah Schroth, 106–27. London: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2010
Discusses a painting recently attributed to Fray Juan Ricci (1600–1681) and poses a possible inte... more Discusses a painting recently attributed to Fray Juan Ricci (1600–1681) and poses a possible interpretive model for addressing the artist's work.
Re-viewing Digital Technologies and Art History
The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/category/issues/issue-twelve/), 2018
Theme issue of "The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy" co-edited with Kimon Keramidas.
AI and the Digitized Photoarchive: Promoting Access and Discoverability
Art Documentation, 2021
The Frick Art Reference Library in New York launched a pilot project with Stanford University, Co... more The Frick Art Reference Library in New York launched a pilot project with Stanford University, Cornell University, and the University of Toronto to develop an algorithm that applies a local classification system based on visual elements to the library’s digitized Photoarchive. As a test case, the Cornell/Toronto/Stanford team focused on a dataset of digital reproductions of North American paintings and drawings and employed recent advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning to produce automatic image classifiers. The results of this preliminary experiment suggest that automatic image classifiers have the potential to become powerful tools in metadata creation and image retrieval.
Archives, Access and Artificial Intelligence
This chapter introduces the technical aspects of a useful model for effective interaction between... more This chapter introduces the technical aspects of a useful model for effective interaction between the fields of computer science and cultural heritage preservation.
Život umjetnosti: Journal for Modern and Contemporary Art and Architecture, 2019
“Digital Art History for the Masses? The Role of the Public Digital Art History Lab.” Život umjet... more “Digital Art History for the Masses? The Role of the Public Digital Art History Lab.” Život umjetnosti: Journal for Modern and Contemporary Art and Architecture 105, no. 2, 196–213.
Život umjetnosti
Digital Art History (DAH), which embraces massive datasets, innovative methodologies based on com... more Digital Art History (DAH), which embraces massive datasets, innovative methodologies based on computational techniques, and collaborative paradigms, promises to offer new perspectives on the history of art. For example, DAH has the potential to shift the discipline’s focus from the traditional topics of inquiry to less explored aspects of the field—in short, to reposition the discipline’s central preoccupations with the issues of patronage, which are the concerns of the elite, to broader structures at work in a society, including the experiences of the marginalized. This displacement from center to periphery is not restricted to DAH research questions, but often applies to other aspects of DAH as well: to its status within the Digital Humanities (DH); to the demographic it frequently attracts; and to the infrastructure(s) developed to support it. Yet despite this potential, in many respects DAH occupies the periphery. This essay problematizes these issues as crystallized by the esta...
Review of "The Spanish Craze: America’s Fascination with the Hispanic World, 1779–1939," by Richard L. Kagan
Bulletin of the Comediantes
Review of "August L. Mayer y la pintura española: Ribera, Goya, El Greco, Velázquez," by Teresa Posada Kubissa
caa.reviews, 2018
Review of "Re-Reading Leonardo: The “Treatise on Painting” across Europe, 1550–1900," edited by Claire Farago
caa.reviews, 2011
Undergraduate seminar on the life, career and historiography of Caravaggio.
Graduate seminar on the urban morphology of early modern Rome. Other themes of the course include... more Graduate seminar on the urban morphology of early modern Rome. Other themes of the course include the patronage of the papal courts and Counter-Reformation painting.
Undergraduate lecture on Baroque and Rococo art and architecture in Europe and the New World.
Undergraduate survey of museum studies.
Undergraduate seminar on the life, career and historiography of Diego Velázquez.
Preliminary bibliography for undergraduate research in Baroque art and architecture (sources in E... more Preliminary bibliography for undergraduate research in Baroque art and architecture (sources in English only).
Preliminary bibliography for undergraduate research in Italian Renaissance art and architecture (... more Preliminary bibliography for undergraduate research in Italian Renaissance art and architecture (sources in English only).
Key to some of the most popular methodological approaches currently applied in the study of art h... more Key to some of the most popular methodological approaches currently applied in the study of art history in America.
Bielefeld University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2022
This chapter introduces the technical aspects of a useful model for effective interaction between... more This chapter introduces the technical aspects of a useful model for effective interaction between the fields of computer science and cultural heritage preservation.
Baroque and Rococo Art and Architecture
In this Section: 1) Brief Table of Contents 2) Detailed Table of Contents BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS... more In this Section: 1) Brief Table of Contents 2) Detailed Table of Contents BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS: Chapter 1: The Birth of Baroque Painting in Italy Chapter 2: The Sacred and Secular in Painting in Seventeenth-Century Italy Chapter 3: Italian Baroque Sculpture and the Bel Composto Chapter 4: Baroque Architecture in Italy Chapter 5: The Golden Age of Spain and Viceregal America Chapter 6: The Human Figure in Dutch Seventeenth Century Painting Chapter 7: Picturing Holland in the Dutch Republic's Golden Age Chapter 8: Flemish Baroque Painting in the Age of Rubens Chapter 9: French Painting and Prints of the Seventeenth Century Chapter 10: Baroque Architecture in France and England Chapter 11: French Painting from the Regency to the Reign of Louis XV Chapter 12: The Public and the Private in French Painting of the Enlightenment Chapter 13: French Sculpture and Architecture in the Eighteenth Century Chapter 14: The Georgian Panorama in British Painting and Prints Chapter 15: Architec...
Kunsttexte.de: E-Journal für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte, 2018
NYARC Blog: Photographic Study Collections Consolidated
The Frick Art Reference Library’s Photoarchive consists of more than 1,000,000 reproductions of w... more The Frick Art Reference Library’s Photoarchive consists of more than 1,000,000 reproductions of works of art of the Western tradition dating from the 4th to the mid-20th century. Although photoarchives were the foundation of art historical study in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, these extraordinary resources, which allow researchers to review comprehensive holdings of individual artists and regional schools, have become increasingly rare during the past decade. Because of limitations of space, staff, or funds, many photoarchives have been dismantled. Several historic research collections, however, including those of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Museum of Modern Art, have been preserved in part or in their entirety at The Frick Art Reference Library.
Discoveries in the Photoarchive (editor)
Significant scholarship, from new attributions to updated provenance, is undertaken daily in the ... more Significant scholarship, from new attributions to updated provenance, is undertaken daily in the Photoarchive of The Frick Collection's Art Reference Library in New York City. This departmental blog not only shares some of this research but also highlights special reproductions and collections in our holdings.