Timeline of Select Projects | Index of Projects
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A Thousand Years of Church Architecture | Architecture, Europe | Simple Flash animation of generic floorplans showing the evolution of European religious architecture |
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Africa and African Art | 2005 - 2006 | Africa | Course monograph with links to Mnemosyne image portfolios and external resources |
Alhambra | Architecture, Europe | Flash-based monograph containing panoramas, images, videos, and diagrams of various rooms of the Alhambra complex in Granada, Spain |
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Amiens Animated Glossary | Architecture, Europe | Interactive floorplan and elevation diagrams that allow students to learn and test themselves on Gothic architectural terms |
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Amiens Cathedral Interactive Glossary | 1996 - 1997 | Architecture, Europe | Monograph on Amiens Cathedral featuring photographs, drawings and plans, 3D renderings, and texts. |
Ancient and Early Christian Sites of Rome | 2012 - 2013 | Architecture, Europe | Media Center staff and interns accompanied the Spring 2012 Undergraduate Travel Seminar to Rome to document monuments of Ancient Roman and Early Christian architecture. |
Archaeobase | Architecture, Europe | Unfinished archaeological database containing data from Professor Clemente Marconi's Ancient Selinus excavation |
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ArchMap | Architecture, Asia, Europe | This architecture mapping database was the predecessor to Art Atlas |
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Art and Architecture in Puglia: SIIA Research Trip | 2020 - 2020 | Architecture, Painting, Europe | In coordination with Prof. Michael Cole’s Spanish Italy & the Iberian Americas project, the Media Center was able to join the research group on a trip to the Puglia region of southern Italy. |
Art Humanities Teaching Resources | Architecture, Painting, Sculpture, Europe, North America | This companion site to Art Humanities serves as a repository for instructor resources and briefings. |
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Bauhaus and German Modernism: Travel Seminar | 2019 - 2019 | Architecture, Europe | Lead by Prof. Barry Bergdoll, the Fall 2019 Travel Seminar gave the Media Center the opportunity to document significant Bauhaus sites during the centennial. |
Breugel: The Netherlandish Proverbs | Painting, Europe | Annotated details of Breugel's painting |
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Bruegel, Pieter, "Battle between Carnival and Lent" | Painting, Europe | Image of the painting and details |
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Bruegel, Pieter, "Children's Games" | Painting, Europe | Image of the painting and details |
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Bruegel, Pieter, "Tower of Babel" | Painting, Europe | Image of the painting and details |
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Computational Tools for Modeling, Visualizing and Analyzing Historic and Archaeological Sites | 2002 - 2004 | Architecture, Africa, Europe, North America | This project aimed "to create new computational tools" for for studying historic structures and archaeological sites, then to compile the data into a database and educational website. Featured locations include Amheida, Egypt; Monte Polizzo, Italy; Thulamela, South Africa; Beauvais Cathedral, France; and St. John the Divine, New York City. |
Conques, The Church of St. Foy, Animated Glossary | 1999 - 2000 | Architecture, Europe | Timed Flash animation of architectural terminology |
Delight in Design: Silver for the Raj | 2008 - 2009 | Decorative Arts, Asia | Delight in Design was created as an online resource for an exhibition of South Asian silver at the Wallach Gallery in 2008, curated by Vidya Dehejia, Barbara Stoler Miller Professor of Indian and South Asian Art. |
Designing Saint Peter's | 2003 - 2004 | Architecture, Europe | Animation showing successive iterations of Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome through comparison of groundplans |
Durham Cathedral and Old St. Peter's Basilica: A Comparison of the Ground Plans | 1999 - 2000 | Architecture, Europe | Overlaid floorplans comparing the architecture of Durham Cathedral and the old St. Peter's Basilica in Rome |
Durham Cathedral Interactive Ground Plan | Architecture, Europe | Black-and-white photographs of Durham Cathedral plotted in a building floorplan |
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Goddess, Heroine, Beast: Anna Hyatt Huntington's New York Sculpture, 1902-1936 | 2013 - 2014 | Sculpture, North America | An online catalog for the Wallach Art Gallery exibit of the same name |
Goya: Disasters of War | Prints, Europe | Scans of thirteen of Goya's Disasters of War prints with captions, organized as a slideshow |
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Great Vista Peak, Mount Taishan, Shandong | 2007 - 2008 | Sculpture, Asia | Animation of the rock inscriptions on Great Vista Peak disappearing in reverse chronological order of creation to reveal the mountain face as it likely appeared pre-inscriptions |
History of Architecture - Real Virtual, Representing Architectural Time and Space | 1998 - 2005 | Architecture, Africa, Asia, Europe, North America | This History of Architecture Web site is designed to support undergraduate education by focusing on interactive panoramas as a method of expanding the options for classroom presentations of architectural subjects. |
Illuminating Art History: Kress Foundation Digital Art History Grant | 2022 - 2024 | Art History, Slides, Photograph | A two-year Digital Art History grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation enabled the digitization and online dissemination of the Columbia University Department of Art History and Archaeology’s Lantern Slide Collection. |
Istanbul Documentation Project (1) | Architecture, Europe | This was the first iteration of the Istanbul Documentation Project. |
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Istanbul Documentation Project (2) | Architecture, Europe | The Istanbul Documentation Project aims to create a digital platform for the virtual presentation of Istanbul's Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman and early Republican sites and monuments and thus provides a rich resource for scholars, students, and the general public. |
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La Villa Savoye: The Five Points of New Architecture | 2005 - 2006 | Architecture, Europe | This website demonstrates how Le Corbusier's Five Points of New Architecture are deployed in his Villa Savoye, and primarily features panoramas plotted on floorplans. |
Mapping Architecture in Medieval and Renaissance Naples | Architecture, Urban Planning, Europe | An unfinished website on the growth of Naples from the Classical Era to the Renaissance, with historical maps and paintings and a brief history of the city. |
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Mapping Gothic France | 2008 - 2012 | Architecture, Europe | This comprehensive database of Gothic monuments in France contains more than twenty thousand original photographs and panoramas, accompanied by contextual materials, including historical texts, timelines, and interactive maps. |
Mapping the Art and Architecture of Renaissance Venice | 2002 - 2005 | Architecture, Europe | This digital learning environment offers students the opportunity to engage the art and architecture of Renaissance Venice, seen through the famous view of the city by Jacopo de'Barbari, a monumental woodblock print dated 1500. |
Medieval Architecture Digital Teaching Project | 2000 - 2001 | Architecture, Europe | Collection of academic texts, primary and secondary sources, historical images, floorplans, and panoramas on a variety of Medieval Architectural styles. |
Medieval Millennium | 1999 - 2000 | Architecture, Sculpture, Europe | Early course monograph created for a class and Metropolitan Museum exhibit of the same name. |
Monet's Rouen Cathedral | Painting, Europe | Scans of 26 of Monet's Rouen Cathedral paintings, viewable in color or monochrome. The site also has a sun wheel feature that organizes ten of the paintings by approximate time of day they were made. |
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Paris, Notre-Dame Cathedral Animated Ground Plan | Architecture, Europe | Flash animations of floorplan and elevation. |
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Paris, Notre-Dame Cathedral Interactive Elevation Diagrams | Architecture, Europe | Floorplan with plotted, rollover elevation diagrams. |
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Paris, Notre-Dame Cathedral Interactive Ground Plan | Architecture, Europe | Black-and-white historical images of Notre-Dame plotted on a building floorplan |
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Parthenon Frieze | 2001 - 2002 | Sculpture, Europe | Annotated floorplans and images of the Parthenon frieze, organized by facade. |
Raphael's Fresco of the Disputa of the Vatican's Stanza della Segnatura | 2000 - 2001 | Painting, Europe | Video of late Professor David Rosand describing Raphael's fresco with computer-animated illustrations. |
Raphael's Fresco of the School of Athens | 2000 - 2001 | Painting, Europe | Video of late Professor David Rosand describing Raphael's fresco with computer-animated illustrations. |
Raphael, The Stanza della Segnatura | 1998 - 2000 | Painting, Europe | This website devoted to the Stanza della Segnatura in contains images, details, descriptions, and explanations of the iconography and techniques for each of Raphael's frescoes. |
Restoring Byzantium | 2004 - 2005 | Architecture, Europe | Focusing on the late-1940s restoration of the Kariye Camii, a Byzantine-era church in Istanbul, the website contains current photographs, historical phographs, panoramas, 3D models and animations, floorplans, academic texts, a glossary, a bibliography, and useful links. |
Robert Moses and the Modern City | 2006 - 2007 | Urban Planning, Architecture, North America | Designed as an online resource for the three-part exhibition Robert Moses and the Modern City, this website includes an interactive map of the works of Robert Moses in New York City, an extensive collection of photographs, and text on each exhibition. |
Roman and Early Christian Germany: CAM Graduate Tour | 2018 - 2018 | Ancient Roman, Europe | The Media Center was able to join the Center for the Ancient Mediterranean Annual Graduate Tour and document sites of Roman and Early Christian Germany lead by Prof. Holger A. Klein and Prof. Francesco de Angelis. |
Romanesque Churches of the Bourbonnais | 2003 - 2007 | Architecture, Europe | This web resource presents unique research, chronicling the documentation of over thirty Romanesque structures through comprehensive digital photography and three-dimensional panoramas. |
Selinus Arcopolis Project | 2006 - 2007 | Architecture, Europe | Website documenting the 2006-07 excavation of the acropolis at the Ancient Greek colony of Selinus in modern-day Sicily, with very detailed aerial map of the site. |
Seneca Village Project | 2011 - 2012 | Urban Planning, North America | Formed in 1998, the Seneca Village Project is focused on the study of a 19th-century African-American and Irish-immigrant community that was located in today's Central Park in New York City and on its commemoration in an educational context. |
The American Southwest | 2013 - 2014 | Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, North America | Photographed in New Mexico and Arizona, this collection features a range of art and architecture, from pre-Columbian Native American settlements and Spanish Colonial mission churches to Modern Navajo architecture and contemporary Southwestern art. |
The Asian Art Digital Teaching Project | 2004 - 2008 | Architecture, Painting, Asia | This teaching module showcases Media Center projects and image collections relating to Middle, South, and East Asian art and architecture in order to better serve the faculty and students of Columbia University. |
The Byzantine Church of Hagia Sophia at Vize in Turkish Thrace | 2003 - 2004 | Architecture, Europe | Website documenting the excavation and restoration of Hagia Sophia, Vize, through texts, images, and floorplans. |
The Carol J. Mackey Archive | 2020 - 2021 | Pre-Columbian | In coordination with Prof. Lisa Trever and alumna Dr. Amanda Gannaway, the Media Center created an online interface for the archive encompassing more than 5800 images from Dr. Mackey’s slide collection of ceramic vessels and other objects from the north coast of Peru. |
The Photograph Collection: Kress Foundation Digital Art History Grant | 2020 - 2023 | Art History, Photograph | A two-year Digital Art History grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation enabled the digitization and online dissemination of the Columbia University Department of Art History and Archaeology’s Photograph Collection. |
Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics, and Devotion in Medieval Europe | 2010 - 2011 | Decorative Arts, Europe | The Media Center produced the digital monograph for the 2010-11 exhibition Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics, and Devotion in Medieval Europe, co-organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Walters Art Museum, and the British Museum. |
Treasures Rediscovered: Chinese Stone Sculpture from the Sackler Collections at Columbia University | Sculpture, Asia | Featuring still images, rotational object photography, and curator's texts, this Media Center site was built to serve as a digital catalog for an exhibit of Chinese sculpture from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler's large donation of Asian artworks to Columbia University. |
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Unpacking Les Demoiselles d'Avignon - Pablo Picasso | 2004 - 2005 | Painting, Europe | This site contains information on Picasso's seminal work Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, including essays, prepatory drawings, and biographical information on the artist. All images can be compared against the final painting in the image viewer. |
Venice, A Database | 2007 - 2008 | Architecture, Europe | In 2007, ARTstor sponsored a Media Center photography campaign in Venice, Italy, which produced over 340 panoramas of a range of historically significant sites from various eras in the city's history. |
What is a Sign? An Introduction to Saussure | 2007 - 2008 | Visual Theory, Europe | A series of slides explaining Saussure's theories of semiotics as they relate to Modern Art, with illustrations. |