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SUMMARY:SIMS Online Lecture:  BASIRA (Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art)\, a New Digital Resource for Book History
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Nicholas Herman\, Schoenberg Institute for 
 Manuscript Studies\nFriday\, March 22\, 2024\, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT\n\nThis 
 presentation will introduce BASIRA\, a powerful web-based open-access 
 database of depictions of books and other textual documents in the 
 figurative arts between approximately 1300 to 1600 CE. Redeveloped at SIMS 
 with support from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and a private donor\, the 
 database has been evolving privately for nearly a decade. The new\, 
 open-access search interface was officially unveiled to the public at the 
 16th annual Schoenberg Symposium for Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age 
 in November 2023. The constantly growing dataset allows users to discover\, 
 query\, and view over 3\,000 depictions of late medieval and early modern 
 documents drawn from artworks found across Europe and North America. Many 
 aspects of a depiction can be explored\, from details of binding 
 construction\, fastenings\, and bookmarks\, to the iconographic and 
 cultural context of the work of art\, to the particular way in which 
 actions are being performed with the book\, and by whom. Is a book being 
 read or sung from\, displayed\, gifted\, received\, trodden\, or something 
 else? Is it open to pages showing text or illustrations\, and if so\, what 
 is the content? What is the gender of the reader and their social status? 
 Are they perusing with an index finger\, or roughly handling with a thumb? 
 Entries in the database are accompanied by detailed imagery\, often taken 
 on-site by members of the project team. As an interdisciplinary resource\, 
 BASIRA will be of interest to historians of visual art\, music\, religion\, 
 literature\, private life and gender\, as well as museum and heritage 
 professionals\, book conservators\, and members of the general public.
ORGANIZER;CN="Lynn Ransom":MAILTO:lransom@upenn.edu
CATEGORIES:Lecture, SIMS
CONTACT;CN="Lynn Ransom":MAILTO:lransom@upenn.edu
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