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Between 1300-1500, illegible Arabic scripts often appeared on the hems of garments depicted in Florentine painting and sculpture. Generally golden in color, they adorn religious figures in artworks by many leading artists, including…

Florentine Arabic // العربية الفلورنسية

In February 2010, on the occasion of the closing celebrations for the centenary of the first futurist Manifest, the Library of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz launched the project of a digital archive on Futurism in Florence. The importance of Florence as a historic place…

Pro Firenze Futurista

Since 1902, the Photothek has used a handwritten and typed card index – arranged in three catalogues (‘artist’, ‘sites’ and ‘iconography’) – documenting acquisitions from 1897 until the switch to electronic records in 1993. Although this analogue system…

Digitizing the Photothek’s Card Index

Archives are core sites of destruction, decay and loss. Whether through man-made destruction, be it intentional, arbitrary, or accidental—such as changes in institutional policy, forgetfulness, deliberate evidence destruction, wars, migration, or…

The Intelligence of Loss in the Archive

Anna-Maria Meister and
Rafael Uriarte

In what ways does the spatial analysis of historical data enhance our understanding of post-catastrophic dynamics in the urban fabric? This question is central to the development of the digital platform ‘L’Aquila 1703: Lost, Demolished, Rebuilt’…

L'Aquila 1703: Lost, Demolished, Rebuilt

Chiara Capulli

In collaboration with Camilla Musci, Jan Simane, and the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (KHI) Library, the DH Lab is developing a data integration and digital research platform dedicated to the Biblioteca Serlupiana.

The Serlupiana Project

Integrating and Presenting a Unique Book Collection

Dante Depicted

A Commentary on Image, Text, and Exegesis Around the Commedia

Rebecca Bowen, Rafael Brundo Uriarte

Dante Depicted investigates the visual history of Dante’s Commedia, offering tools to study its illustrations alongside the text and related commentaries.

Aby Warburg’s Florence invites users to explore 25 locations across the city, uncovering historical details and creating new visual constellations inspired by Warburg’s legacy.

Aby Warburg's Florence

This project combines high-resolution gigapixel imaging with advanced visualization techniques to bring detailed photographic campaigns into a digital exhibition format.

Gigapixel Images

This project creates a semantic platform using linked data to enable intuitive research and integrates diverse sources into a prototype semantic library for the KHI.

Connecting the KHI Digital Resources

This virtual exhibition, curated by Mauro Mussolin, uses advanced technologies to reveal Michelangelo’s hidden drawings and explore the life-cycle of paper in Renaissance workshops.

Michelangelo su carta

The Die Kirchen von Siena project, led by Peter Anselm Riedl and Max Seidel, studies Sienese churches. Its digitized archive contains over 100,000 records on churches, artworks, and families.

Digitizing the Die Kirchen von Siena Project

The project focuses on building a digital platform for photography catalogues, using semantic search and machine learning to associate data with photo databases.

Virtual Repository of Photographers' Sales Catalogues

This project integrates cloud computing and microservices into digital humanities, enhancing flexibility, reusability, and compatibility for scholars to create innovative solutions.