The Digital Reconstruction of Leonardo’s Library

The present article combines an individual, object-based approach with digital technologies with the aim to define the relation of verbal and visual inscriptions in Leonardo da Vinci’s technical-scientific and literary-artistic works. By conducting a comparative analysis of Leonardo’s folios featuring fables, emblems, and engineering projects,I identify the archetypes of this interaction in the books contained in his personal library and examine the convergence of his use of empirical, diagrammatic, and pictorial strategies toward the investigation of nature. The material component of this study consists in a series of analytical drawing tables which examine recurrent patterns, and textual and visual connections in Leonardo’s manuscripts. The identified patterns are subsequently cataloged and examined through the web-publishing platform “LILeo” created in collaboration with the Rutgers Digital Humanities Laboratory as part of my dissertation project. By digitally highlighting the interaction of elements on the space of the page, and enabling the layering of drafts belonging to similar projects in Leonardo’s works and sources, this study traces the formal patterns of the artist’s analytical thinkingin order to uncover the origins of his interdisciplinary research.

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Concurrent Detection and Recognition of Individual Object Based on Colour and p-SIFT Features

IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics Communications and Computer Sciences ◽

10.1587/transfun.e96.a.1357 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol E96.A (6) ◽

pp. 1357-1365

Author(s):

Jienan ZHANG ◽

Shouyi YIN ◽

Peng OUYANG ◽

Leibo LIU ◽

Shaojun WEI

Keyword(s):

Individual Object ◽

Object Based ◽

Sift Features ◽

Detection And Recognition

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OBJECT-BASED TEACHING AND LEARNING FOR A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES IN ARTS AND CULTURAL HERITAGE

ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences ◽

10.5194/isprs-archives-xlii-2-w5-349-2017 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol XLII-2/W5 ◽

pp. 349-354 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

M. Hess ◽

D. Garside ◽

T. Nelson ◽

S. Robson ◽

T. Weyrich

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

Digital Technologies ◽

Economic Implications ◽

Digital Heritage ◽

Object Based ◽

Bachelor Of Arts ◽

Scientific Principles ◽

University College London ◽

Cultural Sector

As cultural sector practice becomes increasingly dependent on digital technologies for the production, display, and dissemination of art and material heritage, it is important that those working in the sector understand the basic scientific principles underpinning these technologies and the social, political and economic implications of exploiting them. The understanding of issues in cultural heritage preservation and digital heritage begins in the education of the future stakeholders and the innovative integration of technologies into the curriculum. This paper gives an example of digital technology skills embedded into a module in the interdisciplinary UCL Bachelor of Arts and Sciences, named “Technologies in Arts and Cultural Heritage”, at University College London.

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FORTUNES OF PERSONAL LIBRARIES IN THE ERA OF PAPER BOOKS AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES

Proceedings of SPSTL SB RAS ◽

10.20913/2618-7575-2020-4-46-55 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 46-55

Author(s):

I. V. Lizunova ◽

N. V. Radishauskaite ◽

A. N. Asheshova ◽

I. S. Troyak ◽

V. I. Moskina

Keyword(s):

Digital Technologies ◽

The State ◽

The World ◽

World Demand ◽

History Of ◽

Personal Use ◽

Book Collections ◽

Personal Library

The article is intended to draw attention to problems common to all existing libraries: forming and picking out personal collections from ones that are more common, their history of existence study, identification, assigning in a single collection, preservation, popularization and accessibility to modern readers. The work is devoted to the theme of personal libraries in the era of paper books and digital technologies and includes materials presented in the series of webinars “Bibliosphere: New Formats” held by the State Public Scientific Technological Library of SB RAS in the summer of 2020. By a personal library the authors mean an ordered collection of books and other documents (electronic, handwritten, etc.), belonging to an individual or family, formed by him / them for personal use. The problems presented in the article concern personal libraries formation in the late XIX – early XXI century: composition and design peculiarities of bibliophile collections; practice of using stamps as a sign of ownership on books; variety of marking personal book collections (super ex-librises, ex-librises, owner’s inscriptions, owner’s stamps, owner’s and book signs); approaches and preferences of personal libraries’ owners; fortunes of books and bibliophiles; problems of book collections preservation in the stocks all over the world; demand for personal collections by contemporaries: researchers, librarians, bibliophiles, readers/users.

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Color in the System of Artistic Means of Cinema

Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University Arts ◽

10.21638/spbu15.2021.304 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (3) ◽

pp. 410-436

Author(s):

Vitaly F. Poznin ◽

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Keyword(s):

Visual Information ◽

Digital Technologies ◽

Emotional Impact ◽

Subjective Perception ◽

Organic Part ◽

Individual Object ◽

Creative Experience ◽

Color Scheme ◽

Light Color

Although the main visual information in film is carried out by the shape of objects, their position in space and their correlation with other objects, color in the motion picture also plays a significant role because the color scale has a strong aesthetic and emotional impact on the viewer. Color is often an organic part of the dramaturgy of film. The exact coloristic solution of a frame, episode or film is able to create the desired atmosphere of action. Different screen chronotopes are often indicated with the help of color — it could be an artistic space of reality, memories, fantasies or a movie character’s dreams. Color helps to convey the subjective perception of reality by the film’s heroes. In a certain context, the color scheme of a film, shot or an individual object, can acquire a metaphorical or symbolic sound. Cinematography initially adopted many of the techniques related to compositional and light-color solutions from painting, which is especially noticeable in the works of directors who pay great attention to the plastic solution of the frame. Today with the introduction into filmmaking of digital technologies, work on the visual solution and color harmonization of the screen image is becoming in many ways similar to the art of an artist. The article analyzes and summarizes the creative experience accumulated by cinema in working with color images and investigates the functional role of color in film, the psychophysiological and emotional impact of color on the viewer, the symbolism of color, and various methods of color solutions in modern films.

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