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SUMMARY:Second Digital Humanities Fall School in Venice
DTSTART:20141006T090000
DTEND:20141010T160000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Theme of the 2014 falls school: Palaces and collections. Model
 ing the coevolution of architectural spaces and artworks display (XVth-XIX
 th centuries)\nThis year\, the students will work on a theme at the inters
 ection of history of art and architecture: modeling the coevolution of arc
 hitectural spaces in relation with artworks display\, circulation and gath
 ering. Venetian Palaces provide a unique testimony on how European elites 
 - nobles\, politics\, merchants\, humanists – progressively invented new
  ways of living surrounded by magnificent artworks. In Venice\, display of
  artworks in palaces\, was associated with an etiquette and hierarchy that
  applied to every person\, space and thing. The progressive establishment 
 of this symbolic spatial organization and its evolution from private colle
 ctions to public displays is well documented\, both in archival sources (n
 otarial records\, inventories\, …) and dedicated monographs on this subj
 ect. The goal of this doctoral school is to investigate new ways of visual
 izing this evolution integrating the information about the constitution of
  artwork collections with data documenting the architectural evolution and
  urban changes.\nThe doctoral school will focus on the evolution of the ci
 rculation and display of artwork from private collections to public museum
 s\, covering a time period ranging broadly from the XVth to the XIXth cent
 ury. In the literary sources of the Renaissance\, the private collections 
 in Venice were a kind of myth. Wealthy collectors like the notary Oliviero
  Forzetta\, or Giovanni Grimani and Gabriele Vendramin accumulated differe
 nt objects of art\, curiosity and mirabilia. Generally speaking\, collecti
 ng became particularly important in Venice at the beginning of XVIth centu
 ry and collections of the Venetian palaces included different media catego
 ries\, moveable and immoveable: frescoes\, cabinet pictures\, tapestries\,
  sculptures and architectures. These collections were initially displayed 
 only in private spaces.\nHowever\, through the centuries\, collecting beca
 me increasingly a public phenomenon as demonstrated by new forms of organi
 zation and presentation of the collections. The objects left the private s
 tudio and began to occupy all spaces of the buildings\, often open to an e
 ducated and informed public. This was the initial prototype of the museum.
  The palazzo of the collector Andrea Odoni was for instance described by V
 asari as “albergo o ridotto dei virtuosi” [boarding house and foyer fo
 r the Virtuous].\nDocuments attesting of this evolution from private to pu
 blic collections are numerous. For instance\, in the inventory of Gabriele
  Vendramin (in the Archivio di Stato di Venezia) the architectural scenogr
 aphy to display ancient sculptures and the presence of specific furnishing
 s for curiosity\, bronzes\, porcelains\, inscriptions and bas-reliefs are 
 well documented. The evolution of Grimani collection and palace gives anot
 her well-described example of this evolution for the XVIth century.  Coll
 ections were originally located in the private rooms of the house and the 
 rarities were accessible only to the owner or a few close friends but\, ov
 er time\, the presence of objects of art in ‘public’ spaces\, such as 
 the courtyard\, represents undoubtedly an evolution of the display criteri
 a for collecting.\nThe goal of this doctoral school is realize a possible 
 reconstruction of the architectural changes of well-chosen palaces in Veni
 ce\, simulating the evolution of the display of collection through time. U
 nderstanding the connection between architectural spaces and collection di
 splays will not only enable to visualize in a completely novel manner this
  evolution from private space to public museums but should also permit to 
 shed new light of the evolution of the real motivations of the collectors.
 \nTo accomplish\, in one week\, students will work in groups using digital
  tools such as Google Sketch up to translate historical and modern maps\, 
 prints\, engravings and paintings into 3D models. In addition to the exter
 ior reconstruction of the buildings\, students will use inventories and va
 rious iconographic sources to recreate interior spaces with the collection
 s. All monuments will be mapped onto present-day Venice.
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