AP9041: Guided Study in Ontologies, Data Mapping, and Knowledge Aggregation from Arts and Humanities to Interactive Media
Instructor: Associate Professor Andrea Nanetti | Designed for Hedren Sum, PhD Candidate at NTU-ADM
Course Summary
This course will provide students with the practical skills to design, implement, and interrogate relational databases and linked data. The key questions covered in this course include: How do we formally model the relationships between entities (e.g., events, people, locations) of the same or different types in one or multiple datasets? How do we organize the data so that meaningful questions can be asked against the data efficiently? How do we provide a data infrastructure for modeling and sharing the data among researchers and also the general public?This class will provide the critical skills necessary for students to develop effective methods for storing, modeling, and querying relevant datasets at the interface of different disciplines (e.g., Arts, Humanities, Cognitive Sciences, Computer Science, Complexity, etc.)
Weekly readings
Week 1: Representing the virtues, screws, affections, and human passions in paintings.
- Reading1: Ripa, C. (1593). Iconologia overo descrittione dell’imagini universali cavate dall’antichita’ et da altri luoghi. Opera non meno utile, che necessaria a poeti, pittori, et scultori, per rappresentare le virtù, vitii, affetti, et passioni humane [without illustrations]. Roma: Gigliotti.
EN: https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_zev001199501_01/_zev001199501_01_0003.php - Reading 2: Ripa, C., & Maser, E. A. (1991). Baroque and Rococo pictorial imagery: The 1758-60 Hertel edition of Ripa’s ‘Iconologia’ with 200 engraved illustrations. New York: Dover Publications.
Week 2: Shifting traditional disciplines into the digital. History as a showcase
- Reading1: Nanetti, A. & Cheong, S. A. (2018). Computational History: From Big Data to Big Simulations. In Chen, S.-H. (Ed.), Big Data in Computational Social Science and Humanities (pp. 337-363). Cham (Switzerland): Springer International Publishing AG.
- Reading 2: Nanetti, A. & Benvenuti, D. (2019). Animation of two-dimensional pictorial works into multipurpose three-dimensional objects. The Atlas of the Ships of the Known World depicted in the 1460 Fra Mauro’s mappa mundi as a showcase. SCIRESit (SCIentific RESearch and Information Technology), 9/2, 29-46.
Week 3: Iconography as a method. From Vasari’s Ragionamenti (1588) to Henri van de Waal’s Iconclass (1946-1972)
- Reading 1: Vasari, G., & Draper, J. L. (1977).Vasari’s decoration in the Palazzo Vecchio: The Ragionamenti. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International.
Alternative version: DRAPER, J. L. (1973). Vasari’s Decoration In The Palazzo Vecchio: The “ragionamenti” Translated With An Introduction And Notes (Order No. 7405914). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (302745180). - Reading 2: Tinagli Baxter, P. (1988). Vasari’s’ Ragionamenti’: the text as a key to the decorations of Palazzo Vecchio (Doctoral dissertation, University of Edinburgh).
- Reference (reading guided by the instructor): Vasari, G. (1588). Ragionamenti del Sig. Cavaliere Giorgio Vasari, pittore et architetto aretino: Sopra le inuentioni da lui dipinte in Firenze nel Palazzo di loro Altezze Serenissime ; con lo Illustriss. et Eccellentiss. Signor Don Francesco Medici allora Principe di Firenze ; insieme con la inuentione della pittura da lui cominciata nella cupola ; con 2 tavole, una delle cose più notabili, et l’altra delli huomini illustri, che sono ritratti e nominati in quest’opera. Firenze: Filippo Giunti.
- Reading 3: familiarise with http://www.iconclass.org/help/outline
- Reading 4: van Straten, R. (1986). Panofsky and ICONCLASS. Artibus et historiae: an art anthology, (13), 165-181.
Week 4: Erwin Panofsky (1892-1968)
- Reading: Panofsky, E. (1939). Studies in iconology. New York: Oxford University Press.
Chapter 1 can be downloaded here.
Week 5: Richard Krautheimer (1897-1994)
- Reading: Krautheimer, R. (1942). Introduction to an “Iconography of Mediaeval Architecture”. Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 5(1), 1-33.
Week 6: Hieronymus Bosh, The Ship of Fools (and its tryptich)
- Assignment: Iconographic reading of the painting according to the discussion made in Weeks 1-5)
Week 7-12: Paintings as Maps. Mapping and (re)visualising paintings
- Assignment: Mapping The Ship of Fools on www.engineeringhistoricalmemory.com
Week 13: Public presentation of the results