The Art-Space of a Global Community: The Network of Baroque Paintings in Hispanic-America

Author

Suarez, J.-L. ; Caparrini, Fernando Sancho ; de la Rosa Pérez, Javier

Author_Institution

CulturePlex Lab., Univ. of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada

fYear

2011

fDate

20-22 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

45

Lastpage

50

Abstract

This paper presents the results of a multidisciplinary collaboration in Digital Humanities that focuses on the multi-scale analysis of the network of Baroque paintings in the territories of the Hispanic Monarchy from the 16th through the 18th centuries. We apply graph analysis and visualizations as well as natural language analysis over a database of over 11,000 artworks in order to address three types of questions related, respectively, to the formation and sustainability of large cultures, the semantic content of the network we analyze, and the role of art as an institution that contributes to sustain large-scale socities. The results also help to design a methodology that can be exported to other projects in Digital Humanities.

Keywords

art; data visualisation; natural languages; painting; Baroque paintings; Hispanic monarchy; Hispanic-America; artwork; digital humanities; global community; graph analysis; large culture; large-scale socities; multidisciplinary collaboration; multiscale analysis; natural language analysis; semantic content; visualization; Art; Communities; Cultural differences; Europe; Global communication; Humans; Painting; Art-space; Baroque; Complex Systems; Cultural Areas; Digital Geography of Art; Graphs; Visualizations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Culture and Computing (Culture Computing), 2011 Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kyoto

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1593-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/Culture-Computing.2011.17

Filename

6103208