Kress Foundation gives major grant for “Florentine Renaissance Drawings” Digital Project

May 25, 2015
Kress Foundation gives major grant for “Florentine Renaissance Drawings”  Digital Project

I Tatti is proud to announce that the Samuel H. Kress Foundation will provide I Tatti with $35,000 for Florentine Renaissance Drawings: A Linked Catalogue for the Semantic Web. As stated in the award letter, the grant offers “support toward the creation of a digital resource based on Bernard Berenson’s most important publication, The Drawings of the Florentine Painters [1903], which will make this invaluable catalogue information available in a machine-readable format and allow researchers from anywhere in the world to mine the source content in ways that are currently difficult or impossible via an open access platform. The Kress Board was very impressed with the ambitious scope of this project and its potential to ensure a new life for a standard reference work in creating an innovative scholarly resource for research on the Italian Renaissance.” The team for this one-year project includes Lukas Klic and Jonathan Nelson as Primary Investigators, and Matt Miller, Cristina Pattuelli and Alexandra Provo for Design, Methodology, Technical Advising, Project Management.