Mining the Cloud of Witness: Inferring the Prestige of Saints from Medieval Paintings
Keywords:
networks, data mining, medieval painting, iconography
Abstract
This paper explores the possibility of applying the concept of distant reading to visual culture Using a corpus of medieval images of St Francis the study incorporates data mining and network analysis to infer the prestige of saints In turn these measurements provide the basis for testing and exploring themes related to the artwork Despite some methodological issues the approach produces results consistent with our historical understanding of this artwork and its context
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2014-07-15
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