This research project centers on Jacopo de’ Barbari and Anton Kolb’s View of Venice, a multi-sheet woodcut published in 1500 that exemplifies a high-point of printmaking innovation in Venice. Early scholarly outputs include an exhibition featured at Duke University’s Nasher Museum of Art in 2017 (September-December). In spring of that year, the Civic Museums of Venice and Visualizing Venice/Visualizing Cities embarked on a study of the six original wooden blocks housed in the Correr Museum (Museo Correr) at Piazza San Marco, Venice. Ongoing initiatives comprise an installation of digital stories at the Correr alongside the original wooden blocks and one of twelve surviving first-state prints. In addition, an edited volume, A Portrait of Venice: Jacopo de’ Barbari’s View (forthcoming from Duke University Press), with essays by over 20 scholars, recounts various thematic narratives of early modern Venice, using the print as a point of departure. And finally, the investigative study is resulting in a scholarly analysis of the making of the View, realized by the comparative study of the woodcuts, wooden blocks, and digitally captured imagery. To access the high-resolution image, please see this link (a collaboration between the Digital Art History and Visual Culture Research Lab, formerly the Wired! Lab, and Duke Libraries).
Lizzet Clifton
Nevio Danelon
Iara Dundas
Sydney Harrington
Annie Haueter
Julia Huang
Hannah L. Jacobs
Andrew Lin
Laura Moure Cecchini
Elisabeth Narkin
Charlie Niebanck
Elizabeth Speed Edward Triplett
Mary Kate Weggeland
Huffman, Kristin Love, A Portrait of Venice. Jacopo de’ Barbari’s View of 1500. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021.
Exhibitions
Huffman, Kristin Love. A Portrait of Venice: Jacopo de’ Barbari’s View of 1500. Nasher Museum of Art, September 7, 2017-December 31, 2017.
Articles
Huffman, Kristin Love. “Jacopo De’ Barbari’s View of Venice (1500) ‘Image Vehicles’ and ‘Pathways of Culture’ Past and Present.” Mediterranea. International Journal on the Transfer of Knowledge 4 (2019): 165-214. doi:10.21071/mijtk.v4i0.11530.
Presentations
Huffman, Kristin Love. “500-Year-Old Wooden Blocks, Light Laser Scans & Photogrammetry.” Paper presented at Digital Matters in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Duke University, Durham, NC, April 6-7, 2018.
Huffman, Kristin Love. “A ‘Virtually’ Digital Exhibition.” University of Padua, Italy, 2017.
Huffman, Kristin Love. “A Portrait of a City: Jacopo de’ Barbari’s Venice.” Florida State University, 2019.
Huffman, Kristin Love. “A Portrait of Venice.” University of Kansas, 2017.
Huffman, Kristin Love. “A View from Above: Jacopo de’ Barbari’s Venice.” Ballroom of the Correr Museum, 2018.
Huffman, Kristin Love. “Jacopo de’ Barbari’s View of Venice.” University of Washington at St. Louis, 2017. Huffman, Kristin Love. “The View of Venice and the Making of Knowledge.” University of Padova, 2018.
Huffman, Kristin Love. “The View of Venice.” School of Engineering, Duke University, 2017.
Huffman, Kristin Love. “The Wooden Blocks of Jacopo de’ Barbari’s Celebrated View of Venice.” Renaissance Society of America, New Orleans, March 2018.
Huffman, Kristin Love, and Mark DeLong. “500-Year-Old Wooden Blocks, Light Laser Scans & Photogrammetry.” Paper presented at Digital Matters in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Duke University, Durham, NC, April 6-7, 2018.
Funding & Sponsorship
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National Endowment of the Humanities-Mellon Fellowship (2017-2018)
Duke Digital Initiative Grant (2017)
Gladys Krieble Delmas Institutional Foundation Research Grant (2016-2017)
