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Project

Coral. The interplay between social structure, collaboration, creativity and innovation in Antwerp and Brussels painting and tapestry design (1650-1700) through formal art historical network research

Building on the international and interdisciplinary research project 'MapTap' (www.maptap.be) and using its custom-made database, 'Cornelia', 'Coral' analyzes the interplay between ever-changing social structure on the one hand (“art worlds”), and the dynamics of collaboration, creativity and innovation in Antwerp and Brussels baroque painting and tapestry design on the other.

'Coral' aims to collect a wide array of both attribution and relational data found in Antwerp and Brussels archives. This data is arranged in 'Cornelia' and processed in such a way that we (that is, an international team of scholars working in various fields) can reconstruct and analyze the networks through interactive datavisualizations and formal art historical network research. Thus, Coral will not only shed new light on the “art world” of the Flemish baroque and its iconographic and stylistic developments, but will also serve and further a methodological goal, i.e. to demonstrate that (traditional, analogue) qualitative approaches and questions on the one hand, and (new, digital) quantitative approaches and questions on the other must be combined in order to come to a better understanding of the interplay between social structure and creativity and innovation in the early modern period.

Date:1 Jan 2017 →  31 Dec 2020
Keywords:Antwerp, painting, tapestry design, formal art historical network research, Coral, Brussels
Disciplines:Curatorial and related studies, History, Other history and archaeology, Art studies and sciences, Artistic design, Audiovisual art and digital media, Heritage, Music, Theatre and performance, Visual arts, Other arts, Product development, Study of regions