Advances in Computation al Art Connoisseurship
Basic digital image processing is an un derexploited computational tool in the incorporation of digital techn ology into art history research. This thesis covers a pioneering effo rt undertaken since 2007 addressing the closure of this gap. The path taken was the development of digital image processing methods to ide ntify matching patterns in art supports and apply the data visualizat ions produced to art historical connoisseurial studies of fifteenth- to nineteenth-century European paintings on canvas and to fifteenth- to seventeenth-century European prints, drawings, and manuscripts on laid paper. The software developed produces striped maps of canvas th read density that have been used to identify canvas from the same rol l, principally for the paintings of Vincent van Gogh and Johannes Ver meer, and watermark overlays that confirm exact matches indicative of sheets of paper made on the same mold, principally among the prints of Rembrandt van Rijn, the codices of Leonardo da Vinci, and seventee nth-century Dutch drawings. These new digital tools have provided sig nificant insights into the attribution and dating of paintings and th e dating of drawings.
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DESCRIPTION: Basic digital image processing is an underexploited compu tational tool in the incorporation of digital technology into art his tory research. This thesis covers a pioneering effort undertaken sinc e 2007 addressing the closure of this gap. The path taken was the dev elopment of digital image processing methods to identify matching pat terns in art supports and apply the data visualizations produced to a rt historical connoisseurial studies of fifteenth- to nineteenth-cent ury European paintings on canvas and to fifteenth- to seventeenth-cen tury European prints, drawings, and manuscripts on laid paper. The so ftware developed produces striped maps of canvas thread density that have been used to identify canvas from the same roll, principally for the paintings of Vincent van Gogh and Johannes Vermeer, and watermar k overlays that confirm exact matches indicative of sheets of paper m ade on the same mold, principally among the prints of Rembrandt van R ijn, the codices of Leonardo da Vinci, and seventeenth-century Dutch drawings. These new digital tools have provided significant insights into the attribution and dating of paintings and the dating of drawin gs. More information on the thesis Advances in Computational Art Connoisseurship END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR