Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Culture and Computing (Culture Computing), 2011 Second International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kyoto
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1593-8
DOI :
10.1109/Culture-Computing.2011.17
