New digital research module on medieval stained glass
The new module ‘Stained Glass in Context’, created within the German part of ‘Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi’ (CVMA), is the first to offer an art historical introduction to the history of exemplary churches with important stained glass,. including an interactive presentation of the windows. The CVMA plays an exceptional role in medieval research: the project records, researches and edits the entire body of medieval stained glass in Germany. Uniquely in art history, its aim is complete coverage of an art genre in its entirety. The object of research is remarkable, too: it is no exaggeration to describe the impressive colored glazings as the foremost medium of visual culture of the 12th to 15th centuries.
Since the 1970s, all glass paintings have been successively photographed, catalogued and recorded according to international guidelines. 2015 saw the start of a process to make this treasure of images available online in the digital image archive (https://corpusvitrearum.de/bildarchiv.html) using the FAIR criteria (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable). Based on this steadily growing repository, the CVMA has now developed a further research module: ‘Stained Glass in Context’ (https://corpusvitrearum.de/glasmalerei-im-kontext.html). Photographs of important medieval glazings are grouped according to their position within the churches and semantically linked. Short texts provide explanations from an art-historical perspective. The viewer’s options to explore the stained glass objects range from an overview of the entire church site to zoomable detailed views of individual panes and their preservation schemes. For research purposes, all images can be downloaded in high resolution from the digital archive – enriched with art-historically curated metadata. While the intensive indexing of this data benefits our own research interest, it is also made available the public.
The module ‘Stained Glass in Context’ was created in close cooperation between the Digital Humanities Research Departments of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz and the CVMA’s offices in Potsdam and Freiburg. The CVMA is part of the academy program of the Union of German Academies of Sciences and Humanities, which is funded by the federal and state governments (Akademienprogramm der Union der deutschen Akademien der Wissenschaften).
Further information
on the research module:
https://corpusvitrearum.de/glasmalerei-im-kontext.html
on the project: https://corpusvitrearum.de
on the image archive: https://corpusvitrearum.de/bildarchiv.html
Contact us:
Dipl. Des. (FH) Sarah Pittroff M.A.
Digital Academy Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz
Geschwister-Scholl-Str. 2
55131 Mainz
T.: 06131/577-116
Source : https://arthist.net/archive/23899
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