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ARt Image Exploration Space (ARIES): A response to the image needs of art library patrons

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 January 2021

Samantha Deutch
Samantha Deutch*
Affiliation:
Assistant Director, Center for the History of Collecting, The Frick Art Reference Library, The Frick Collection, 10 East 71st Street, New York, NY10021, USAEmail: deutch@frick.org
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Abstract

ARt Image Exploration Space (ARIES) is a free, cloud-based dynamic environment offering art historians and others an extensive array of practical tools for analysing images. It is the product of a successful collaboration between art historians, librarians, computer scientists, and engineers from the Frick Art Reference Library, New York University's Tandon School of Engineering, and Brazil's Universidade Federal Fluminense. ARIES is a powerful tool for art historians, both replicating and augmenting traditional methods they have long-used to study images.1 With the advent of the prevalent use of digital photos, art historians lacked the technology capable of replacing what they had previously been able to accomplish in the analogue world. Wood Ruby and Deutch realized that art historians needed an out-of-the-box solution that didn't require extensive knowledge of other disciplines (computer science and engineering). The result of successful collaborations and a generous donation, ARIES is now available in BETA form at www.artimageexplorationspace.com.

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Research Article
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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 46 , Issue 1 , January 2021 , pp. 7 - 12
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of ARLIS

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Footnotes

1.

For more on the development of ARIES see, Crissaff, Lhaylla, Samantha Deutch, R. Luke DuBois, Jean-Daniel Fekete, Juliana Freire, Claudio Silva, Louisa Wood Ruby, “ARIES: Enabling Visual Exploration and Organization of Art Image Collections” in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 38, no. 01, pp. 91–108, 2018. DOI: 10.1109/MCG.2017.377152546.

References

2. For more on the Frick Art Reference Library's Photoarchives, see https://tinyurl.com/y2e2mn9w. The Photoarchives can be searched via the library's catalogue, https://arcade.nyarc.org, and Frick Digital Collections, https://digitalcollections.frick.org. For more on the Center for the History of Collecting's Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America, see https://research.frick.org/directory.

3. For more about van Dyck's workshop's use of formulas in portraiture, see “the catalogue entry for Queen Henrietta Maria,” Adam Eaker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, last accessed on October 18, 2020, https://tinyurl.com/yxtohvy2. Also, Alsteens, Stijn and Adam Eaker, Van Dyck: the Anatomy of Portraiture, New York: The Frick Collection, 2016.

4. Please note that in order for the relative size feature to work properly, the metrics entered for each work of art in a project must be the same, either centimeters or inches.

5. For more on Mary J. Morgan, her collection and sale, see my forthcoming essay “Lost Intentions: Mary J. Morgan's Art ‘Treasures’” in “What's Mine Is Yours”: Private Collectors and Public Patronage in the United States. Essays in Honor of Inge Reist edited by Esmée Quodbach, New York: The Frick Art Reference Library and Center for Spain in America, 2021.

6. Levy, Florence N., “The Art Market,” The American Magazine of Art, vol. 9, No. 1, (November, 1917), 9.

7. “Buying Fine Paintings,” The New York Times, March 4, 1886, 5.

8. The blue markers in the map indicate that more than one work of art is located at the location, and red markers reference where single works of art are located.

9. “New Hotel on Brunswick On Madison Square, Arrangements for a Twenty-Story Structure Complete,” The New York Times, November 13, 1902, 1. The Brunswick Building, completed in 1906, is now known as The Grand Madison and is a luxury apartment building. Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Historic Preservation Studio 1999 report on Midtown South, 57 (https://tinyurl.com/yxtnar2d).

10. Morgan, Mary J, 1884. Mrs. Morgan's Collection of Paintings, New York: Theo. L. De Vinne & Co.

11. See figure 6, exhibiting works of art that were once in Morgan's Picture Gallery. On the lower left side of the image, one can see that the works of art have been placed in groups according to where each of the paintings were hung in 1884.

12. While the 1884 catalogue details in which rooms each picture was hanging, it doesn't indicate the wall, or the order of the arrangement.

13. If dimensions of the original work of art are not recorded, then this feature will not work. To get the most out of ARIES, it is important to fill in the metadata for each item.