30 The Use and Reuse of Printed Illustrations in 15th-Century Venetian Editions
abstract
A presentation of the 15cILLUSTRATION database and website, a searchable database of 15th-century printed illustrations developed by the 15cBOOKTRADE Project in collaboration with the Visual Geometry Group (VGG) at the Department of Engineering Science of the University of Oxford. 15cILLUSTRATION is the first comprehensive and systematic tool to track and investigate the production, use, circulation, and copying of woodblocks, iconographic subjects, artistic styles, within 15th-century printed illustrated editions. The paper illustrates the potential of the 15cILLUSTRATION website as a research support tool for art historians, book historians, philologists and historians of visual and material culture.
Keywords: ISTC • Visual image search • Digital humanities • Incunabula • Illustration • Woodcuts • Woodcut illustration • Printed images • Image-matching • Manual image annotation • Incunables