Medieval Color Comes to Light
The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University holds four pieces of an important ensemble of Romanesque figural sculpture. These four apostles, along with two… Read More »Medieval Color Comes to Light
Past Projects
Decoding Artifacts
MA in Digital Art History student Jessica Pissini (’15) completed this project as part of her master’s thesis. Below is her explanation of her work:… Read More »Decoding Artifacts
Delos
Ancient cities and sanctuaries were once filled with statues. While digital tools have long been used to reconstruct ancient buildings, there has been little attempt… Read More »Delos
Sta. Chiara Choir Screen
Sta. Chiara is one of the largest churches of Naples, erected between 1310 and c. 1340 by the King and Queen of Naples, Robert the… Read More »Sta. Chiara Choir Screen
Augmenting Scoletta del Carmine
This research project, in part developed in the Wired! Lab at Duke University, celebrates the Scoletta del Carmine, a fifteenth-century space that originally functioned as… Read More »Augmenting Scoletta del Carmine
Eremitani
The Church of the Eremitani in Padua was almost entirely destroyed in the Second World War. Prior to this terrible event, the church was an… Read More »Eremitani
Ghett/App
The Ghett/App mobile application was developed by Paolo Borin, Ludovica Galeazzo and Victoria Szabo of the Visualizing Venice team to complement the physical exhibition “Venice,… Read More »Ghett/App
Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany Collaboration
Duke has established a close relationship with members of the Jacobs University community in Bremen, Germany. In 2012-13 several Jacobs graduate students came to campus… Read More »Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany Collaboration
Old Stones and New Technologies
This project was a Humanities Writ Large funded initiative between Professors Caroline Bruzelius and Carlo Tomasi. It focused on capturing data on medieval chisel marks… Read More »Old Stones and New Technologies
Senses of Venice
This project brings to life the first accurate map of Venice produced in 1729 by Ludovico Ughi. Printed in sections, it included sixteen vignettes of… Read More »Senses of Venice