Timeline of Select Projects | Index of Projects
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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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Columbia Image Bank on Artstor | Image Database | The Art History Teaching Collection, compiled by the Media Center for Art History from scans of slides and photographs, is accessible to anyone on Columbia's campus or with a Columbia University UNI. |
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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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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. |
Luna | Image Database | Before Artstor, Luna hosted the Art History Teaching Collection images. |
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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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MCID (MDID) | 2011 - 2012 | Image Database | The Media Center Image Database (MCID) hosts the Department of Art History's teaching collections, special collections, and original photography of globally significant art and architecture. Fieldwork highlights include Istanbul, Iraq, Rome, Chicago, The American Southwest, and Japan. |
Mnemosyne | Image Database | Before MCID, Mnemosyne was the Media Center's database for hosting all its image resources. |
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South America Fieldwork | Architecture, South America | Two Columbia University graduate students, Rebecca Fitle and Amanda Gannaway, took these images of important archaeological and cultural heritage sites in Bolivia and Peru. |
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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 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. |