Project Cornelia
is a hybrid research engine bridging art history and computer science. We study 17th-century Flemish tapestry and painting by using and developing datasets, data retrieval tools and data visualization tools. In doing so, we also try to understand and facilitate the dialog between the humanities scholar and the computer.
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K. Brosens joins the KU Leuven Methusalem consortium (Re)Presentation in Image and Art (2022–2029). The project, directed by experimental psychologist Johan Wagemans, focuses on the psychology and neuroscience of visual perception and art perception.
Oct 2022
publication
G. Panagiotidou, H. Lamqaddam, K. Brosens et al. ‘‘Communicating Uncertainty in Digital Humanities Visualization Research’’. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 28 (2022)
Oct 2022
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H. Lamqaddam obtains her PhD degree from the University of Leuven (KU Leuven), on an interdisciplinary thesis titled In Search of Meaning: Thinking Information Visualization within Art History Research (25 April 2022)
Apr 2022
publication
K. Brosens ‘‘Engineering Brussels Tapestry. Development, Uses and Effects of the Privilege System, 1600-1700’’. Textile History [accepted for publication; 2022]
Apr 2022
publication
K. Brosens ‘‘Nuova luce sul committente e sulla funzione della serie di arazzi Storia di Decio Mus di Rubens’’. N. Büttner and A. Orlando (eds), Rubens e Genova, Milano (Electa), 2022, pp. 200–209
Feb 2022
publication
A. Helmreich, P.B. Jaskot, N. Atkinson, K. Brosens et al., ‘‘Art History in the Age of Computational Methods’’. Dialogue & New Directions 3 (2022), pp. 6–19
Jan 2022
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R.J. Beerens obtains his PhD degree from the University of Leuven (KU Leuven), on a thesis titled Painters and Communities in Seventeenth-Century Brussels: A Social History of Art in a Digital Framework (29 October)
Oct 2021
publication
K. Brosens, B. Cardoso and F. Truyen ‘Slow Digital Art History and KUbism: Or, Situation Awareness and the Promise of Open-World Games’. in K. Brown, The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities and Art History, New York (Routledge), 2020, Chapter 5 (13 pp.).
May 2020
publication
K. Brosens and Y. Maes De Wit ‘Tapestry Production & Conservation. 125 Years De Wit Royal Manufacturers of Tapestry’. London (Harvey Miller) 2019.
Aug 2019
presentation
H. Lamqaddam: Visualizing Social & Professional Network Data (RSA, Toronto, 16 March)
Mar 2019
publication
K. Brosens, J. Aerts, K. Alen, R.J. Beerens, B. Cardoso, I. De Prekel, A. Ivanova, H. Lamqaddam, G. Molenberghs, A. Slegten, F. Truyen, K. Van der Stighelen, K. Verbert ‘Slow Digital Art History in Action. Project Cornelia’s Computational Approach to 17th-Century Flemish Creative Communities’. Visual Resources (Special Issue on Digital Art History) 35 (2019), pp. 105–124.
Feb 2019
infrastructure
Cornelia welcomes 10.000th Actor
Nov 2017
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Klara Alen presents her PhD dissertation on networks in 17th-century Antwerp tapestry worlds (26 April)
Apr 2017
publication
K. Brosens, K. Alen and A. Slegten ‘In de praktijk. Het Vlaamse wandtapijt in 50 verhalen’. Leuven (Davidsfonds) 2016.
Apr 2016
infrastructure
Cornelia welcomes 4000th actor
Feb 2016
publication
A. Slegten and K. Brosens ‘Searching for Emotions. Brussels Painter Maximiliaan de Hase (1713–1780), Brussels Tapestry Producer Daniel Leyniers (1705–1770) and the Early Loss of Children’. in H. Magnus and K. Van der Stighelen (eds.), Facts and Feelings. Retracing Emotions of Artists, 1600–1800, Turnhout (Brepols), 2015, pp. 61–74.
Jun 2015
infrastructure
The 'MapTap' team starts to collect and model archival data on 17th-century Antwerp and Brussels tapestry producers and their families. The database is developed in Microsoft Access.
Jan 2013
publication
K. Brosens ‘Can tapestry research benefit from economic sociology and Social Network Analysis?’. in K. Brosens, K. Van der Stighelen and L. Kelchtermans (eds.), Family Ties. Art Production and Kinship Patterns in the Early Modern Low Countries, Turnhout (Brepols), 2012, pp. 43–51.
Apr 2012