Building the Picture : Architecture in Italian Renaissance Painting
- Submitting institution
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University of York
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 54928422
- Type
- H - Website content
- Month
- April
- Year
- 2014
- URL
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https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/research/research-resources/exhibition-catalogues/building-the-picture
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- "Building the Picture" (BTP) went live on 25 April 2014. The first scholarly online exhibition catalogue in the history of the National Gallery, London, BTP was envisaged from the outset as a permanent digital resource, freely available to all; it remains live. BTP provided the art historical framework and in-depth analysis of individual paintings for the exhibition taking place at the National Gallery in 2014. BTP, however, was much more than a standard catalogue in digital form. After a research campaign conducted in libraries and museums across the UK and Italy (2011-14), and working in close collaboration with co-curator Caroline Campbell, the Gallery’s digital team and guest scholars, Lillie planned, wrote and edited what was then a new type of web experience, with its combination of essays, catalogue entries, diagrams, photographs, footnotes, cross-references, biographies, and links to texts and images from around the world. Five short films were also embedded in the website, exploring imagined architecture in the work of contemporary practitioners and writers, including an architect (Peter Zumthor), a film maker (Martha Fiennes), a computer games designer (Crytek), a film historian (John David Rhodes) and an art historian (T.J. Clark). The website was short-listed for a prize and enthusiastically received in the press. Apart from its innovative digital components, "Building the Picture" realised its aim to create a significant new field for the study of Italian Renaissance painting, which could also be applied to the visual arts as a whole, arguing that depicted or imagined architecture is not a secondary or passive addition to pictures (or sculpture, prints, films, performance art, digital images, computer games etc.), but underpins their planning from the outset, and that it plays a key role in determining how we perceive and relate to images of all types.
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- Non-English
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