MapTap and Cornelia Slow Digital Art History and Formal Art Historical Social Network Research

Koenraad Brosens; Klara Alen; Astrid Slegten; Fred Truyen

doi:10.1515/ZKG-2016-0025

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MapTap and Cornelia Slow Digital Art History and Formal Art Historical Social Network Research

Koenraad Brosens , Klara Alen , Astrid Slegten and Fred Truyen

Published/Copyright: September 1, 2016

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From the journal Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte Volume 79 Issue 3

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The essay introduces MapTap, a research project that zooms in on the ever-changing social networks underpinning Flemish tapestry (1620 – 1720). MapTap develops the young and still slightly amorphous field of Formal Art Historical Social Network Research (FAHSNR) and is fueled by Cornelia, a custom-made database. Cornelia’s unique data model allows researchers to organize attribution and relational data from a wide array of sources in such a way that the complex multiplex and multimode networks emerging from the data can be transformed into partial unimode networks that enable proper FAHSNR. A case study revealing the key roles played by women in the tapestry landscape shows how this kind of slow digital art history can further our understanding of early modern creative communities and industries.

^* We would like to thank Nils Büttner (Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart), Katlijne Van der Stighelen (University of Leuven), and the anonymous reviewers for their valuable remarks and suggestions.

Photo Credits: 1 – 5 MapTap.

Published Online: 2016-09-01

Published in Print: 2016-09-01

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