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Modelling the (Inter)national Printmaking Networks of Early Modern Europe

Modelling the (Inter)national Printmaking Networks of Early Modern Europe

Slides presented on July 1, 2015 at the Digital Humanities conference in Sydney.

Matthew Lincoln

June 30, 2015
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  1. Modelling the (Inter)national
    Printmaking Networks of Early
    Modern Europe
    Matthew Lincoln
    University of Maryland
    @matthewdlincoln
    July 1, 2015
    Digital Humanities 2015

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  2. Hendrick Goltzius after Bartholomeus
    Spranger, The Wedding of Cupid and
    Pysche, 1587. National Gallery of Art.
    Simon Frisius after Matthijs Bril, published by Hendrick Hondius,
    Topographia Variarum Regiorum, 1614. British Museum.

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  3. “Sculptura in Æs”, from Johannes Stradanus’ Nova
    Reperta. Published by Philips Galle, c. 1588-1605.
    British Museum, London.

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  4. Designer
    “Sculptura in Æs”, from Johannes Stradanus’ Nova
    Reperta. Published by Philips Galle, c. 1588-1605.
    British Museum, London.

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  5. Engraver Designer
    “Sculptura in Æs”, from Johannes Stradanus’ Nova
    Reperta. Published by Philips Galle, c. 1588-1605.
    British Museum, London.

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  6. Publisher
    Designer
    Engraver
    “Sculptura in Æs”, from Johannes Stradanus’ Nova
    Reperta. Published by Philips Galle, c. 1588-1605.
    British Museum, London.

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  7. @matthewdlincoln

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  9. Peter Paul Rubens
    Schelte à Bolswert Gillis Hendricx
    designed
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  10. British Museum collections LOD: collection.britishmuseum.org
    Between 1500-1750:
    •  49,306 prints
    •  3,592 nodes: distinct designers, printmakers, and publishers
    •  76,697 edges: connections inferred from co-participation in an
    object
    Mining the museum for data
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    Requisite Gephi mess:

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    1.  Create a set of subgraphs based on a rolling 10-year window:
    •  e.g. the 1640 subgraph contains only edges and nodes extant between
    1635 and 1645
    •  Edges (prints) exist between the start and end dates ascribed to an
    object
    o  Edges are unweighted to avoid biasing edge strength based on
    the number of impressions that survived into this one collection.
    •  Nodes (artists) exist during their life dates (complicated!)
    2.  For each subgraph, calculate network metrics at the global, regional/
    national, and individual scale
    Dynamic network analysis

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  13. ε = ne − ni
    ne +ni
    Group-external/group-internal index
    Krackhardt, David, and Robert N. Stern. “Informal Networks and Organizational Crises: An
    Experimental Simulation.” Social Psychology Quarterly 51, no. 2 (June 1, 1988): 123–40.
    doi:10.2307/2786835.
    ɛ > 0 Majority external connections
    ɛ = 0 Even split
    ɛ < 0 Majority internal connections
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    ne
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    nodes outside that group
    ni
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    1566: Start of Dutch Revolt
    1579: Union of Utrecht
    1642-1651
    English Civil War
    1572: St. Bartholemew’s Day (?)
    1620s: Huguenot rebellions (?)

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    Early 1500s –
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  22. received
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  24. Wait, just one museum?
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  25. Rijksmuseum
    •  49,306 prints
    •  3,592 nodes
    •  76,697 edges
    British Museum
    •  46,730 prints
    •  5,644 nodes
    •  94,282 edges
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  27. Future Directions
    •  More network metrics to explore, e.g. graph
    centrality, blockmodelling
    •  Simulation: ABM to evaluate historical hypotheses
    •  Augmented data models…
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  28. @matthewdlincoln
    Process Residuals
    Impressions
    Preparatory Materials
    Latest plate (possibly extant!)
    Earlier States
    Drawings
    Paintings
    Other prints
    Privileges
    Dedications
    Inscriptions
    Decorative frames
    Series
    Proofs  

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  29. If only there was some way to
    link this data in an open way…
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  30. Slides, data, code:
    matthewlincoln.net/dh2015.html
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