The interdisciplinary project studied formal aspects of artworks, such as shape, colour and transformations between objects; eventually, the web interface for visual search allowed a semantic evaluation of image collections. The ability to mark multiple image regions with bounding boxes enabled to study not only single objects, but entire compositions. Themes, which require a certain arrangement of motifs or presence of objects, were studied and thus addressed questions regarding semantic content of artworks.
Albrecht Dürer, Saint Jerome in His Study (1514, engraving); in art history, St. Jerome is often depicted with a lion; in the presence of both, figure and lion, his identity is revealed to viewers.
Algorithms, which were developed by the group, thus enabled a thorough analysis of art image collections, including formal and semantic analysis. In that computational methods are beneficial for art historical research and resemble previous popular approaches of the discipline. In 1939, art historian Erwin Panofsky (1892-1968) introduced his studies in iconography, differentiating between pre-iconographic analysis, iconographic analysis and iconology, the study of iconography is dedicated to the interpretation of the content, subject matter or composition. .
The following projects evaluated images with regards to their iconographic meaning:
Passion Search
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Albrecht Dürer, Saint Jerome in His Study (1514, engraving); in art history, St. Jerome is often depicted with a lion; in the presence of both, figure and lion, his identity is revealed to viewers.
Algorithms, which were developed by the group, thus enabled a thorough analysis of art image collections, including formal and semantic analysis. In that computational methods are beneficial for art historical research and resemble previous popular approaches of the discipline. In 1939, art historian Erwin Panofsky (1892-1968) introduced his studies in iconography, differentiating between pre-iconographic analysis, iconographic analysis and iconology, the study of iconography is dedicated to the interpretation of the content, subject matter or composition. .
The following projects evaluated images with regards to their iconographic meaning:
Passion Search
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