Timeline of Select Projects | Index of Projects
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Ajanta Cave | Painting, Asia | Stitched photographs of cave wall murals with image detail hotspots |
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Andy Warhol, "Colored Campbell's Soup Can" | Painting, North America | Collection of 19 images of Warhol's Campbell's Soup Can paintings |
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Andy Warhol, "Thirteen Most Wanted Men" | Painting, North America | Collection of 21 images of Warhol's "Thirteen Most Wanted Men" installation at the 1964 New York World's Fair |
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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. |
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. |
Exploring Chinese Painting: A Test Module for Undergraduate Teaching | Painting, Asia | Interactive timeline of masterworks of Chinese painting 900-1750 CE. Users can compare multiple works along the timeline or view individual pieces in detail, including four long scroll paintings. |
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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. |
Kangxi Emperor's Southern Tour: Scroll Seven | Painting, Asia | Digitized, stitched images of Chinese scroll paintings with annotations and translations. One of four digitized. Also part of the Exploring Chinese Painting site. |
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Kangxi Emperor's Southern Tour: Scroll Three | Painting, Asia | Digitized, stitched images of Chinese scroll paintings with annotations and translations. One of four digitized. Also part of the Exploring Chinese Painting site. |
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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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Qianlong Emperor's Southern Tour: Scroll Four | Painting, Asia | Digitized, stitched images of Chinese scroll paintings with annotations and translations. One of four digitized. Also part of the Exploring Chinese Painting site. |
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Qianlong Emperor's Southern Tour: Scroll Six | Painting, Asia | Digitized, stitched images of Chinese scroll paintings with annotations and translations. One of four digitized. Also part of the Exploring Chinese Painting site. |
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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. |
Recording the Grandeur of the Qing / Nanxuntu: Southern Inspection Tour Scrolls | 2005 - 2009 | Painting, Asia | These monumental scrolls, commissioned by the Kangxi and Quinlong Emperors of the Qing Dynasty to record their multiple inspection tours, provide a unique and vivid glimpse into the grandeur of late imperial China and are the focus of this web site. The site has been updated to a new version by Asia for Educators |
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. |
Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Safavid Shah Tahmasp (The Feast of Sadah) | Painting, Asia | This site features a high-resolution, zoomable image of the "Feast of Sadah" page of this 16th-century Iranian illuminated manuscript, along with descriptions of the iconography, history, and historical figures found therein. |
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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 Great Mosque of Mopti | 2008 - 2009 | Architecture, Africa | Created by late Media Center Director James Conlon following the Terra 2008 conference in Bamako, Mali, this site features panoramas and images of this classic African Islamic mud monument dating from 1935. There is also a brief history and bibliography of the region and building. |
Thulamela: Computational Tools for Modeling, Visualizing, and Analyzing Historic and Archaeological Sites | Architecture, Africa | Part of the "Computational Tools for Modeling, Visualizing and Analyzing Historic and Archaeological Sites" project, "Thulamela" is the most completed subproject with its own separate website. |
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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. |
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. |