Rinascimento

1 Topical Catalogues of the iconography of Venus from the Middle Ages to Modern Times. At the present two catalogues have been published:
Vol.1.1
'The Italian Venus' with 1840 artworks of 649 Italian artists and
Vol.2.1 'The French Venus' with 2997 artworks of 977 French artists;
Vol.3.1 'The Venus of the Low Countries' is scheduled for 2010 and other volumes will be published later.
2 Research Papers on the quantitative analysis of the Topical Catalogues, i.e. the time distribution of artworks and artists and the changing popularity of the topics; a singularity in art history is the application of an inverse power-law, known in bibliometry and informetrics as Lotka's law.

3 Connectivity Maps, a term borrowed from graph theory and network analysis, using VUE-Visual Understanding Environment, an open source
programme of Tufts University; these Maps explore the possibilities of a graphical presentation of the links between masterworks, preparatory drawings or earlier related artworks, and later copies, prints and other
closely related or derived artworks; two examples have been developed: 'Venus and the Musician' of TIZIANO and 'The embarkation to Cythere' of WATTEAU.

The project includes all the documentary records of the cathedral’s Opera, or Board of works, which oversaw not only the work site for the construction of the cupola and the rich furnishings and works of art that adorned the church, but also the residence of the clergy in the nearby canonry and other real estate owned by the Opera, as well as important outside projects ordered by the city’s communal government, from fortifications throughout the territorial state to the papal apartments in the convent of Santa Maria Novella. The sources document the provision of building materials, the management of the work force, the institutional structure of the Opera itself and its efforts to collect the publicly decreed financing due it, its presence in the liturgical context and its relations with the city of Florence, that saw itself reflected in the great civic enterprise of the cathedral.

Please note that for the time being the current version serves as a working tool under construction. Thus it it is not the definitive version yet. Eventually it is planned to connect this catalogue with the Lineamenta data base of architectural drawings developed by the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Art, Rome.

The University of Chicago Library's copy of the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae contains nearly 1,000 prints and is the largest in the world. The Library's copy arrived in the 1890's as a part of the Berlin Collection, a large lot of books and manuscripts purchased for the Library from S. Calvary and Co. in Berlin.

Please note that for the time being the current version serves as a working tool under construction. Thus it it is not the definitive version yet. Eventually it is planned to connect this catalogue with the Lineamenta data base of architectural drawings developed by the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Art, Rome.