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Try out our experimental prototype 3D research environment (desktop version) with the entrance hall of the 17th-C house of Pieter de Graeff & Jacoba Bicker (Version August 2021)
A screencast demonstrating the features implemented in the 3D prototype research environment is available at https://doi.org/10.1515/opar-2020-0142 or at https://dx.doi.org/10.21942/uva.14424218. For more information on the context of its creation, see H. Huurdeman 2021. Analyze & Experience: Towards a Research Environment for 3D Reconstructions
Try out the prototype 2D maps research environment to explore Amsterdam artist and art dealer locations between 1585 and 1700 (screencast). For more information on the context of its creation see H. Huurdeman (2024), Data Visualization via Enhanced Maps in a Digital Humanities Context – a Design Perspective.
Selected publications
Piccoli, Chiara 2025. Pieter de Graeff (1638-1707) and his treffelyke bibliotheek. Exploring and Reconstructing an Early Modern Private Library as a Book Collection and as a Physical Space (Brill) https://brill.com/display/title/69863
Piccoli, Chiara 2024. ‘A Peek Behind the Façade. The Virtual Interiors approach to visualise Herengracht 573 in the 17th century’. Storia Urbana 173 (2022), 79-98. https://doi.org/10.3280/SU2022-173006
Li, Weixuan and Chiara Piccoli 2024. ‘Placing Value in Domestic Interiors. 3D Spatial Mapping of Pieter de Graeff and Jacoba Bicker’s Home Art Collection’, BMGN – Low Countries Historical Review 139 (2), 4-37. https://bmgn-lchr.nl/article/view/13880
Huurdeman, Hugo, van den Heuvel, Charles, and Posthumus, Etienne 2024. Beyond Dynamic Drawings: Restoring and Reusing Interactive 3D Visualizations in a Humanities Context. Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences (published online ahead of print 2024). https://doi.org/10.1163/24523666-bja10039
Li, Weixuan, ‘Deep Mapping Uncertain Historical Sources’, Journal for the History of Knowledge, 5 (2024), DOI:10.55283/jhk.13998
Li, Weixuan (forthcoming), Painters’ Playbooks in the Art Market of Early Modern Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press
Piccoli, Chiara 2023. ‘Home-making in 17th century Amsterdam: Investigating visual cues in domestic interiors by means of a 3D digital environment’, in G. Landeschi and E. Betts (eds.), Capturing the senses: Digital methods for sensory archaeologies, Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences (Springer), 211-236.
Li, Weixuan and Chiara Piccoli 2022. ‘Boedelinventarissen als bron voor de reconstructie van zeventiende-eeuwse interieurs’. Alle Amsterdamse Akten, Jaarboek Amstelodamum, 144-151.
Van den Heuvel, Charles, Gabri van Tussenbroek, Julia Noordegraaf, Chiara Piccoli and Weixuan Li 2022. ‘Virtual Interiors en de gelaagde stad. Een inkijk in een digitaal lab voor een ruimtelijke geschiedenis van Amsterdam’, Stadsgeschiedenis 17 (2), 136-149.
Huurdeman, Hugo and Chiara Piccoli 2021. ‘3D Reconstructions as Research Hubs: Geospatial Interfaces for Real-Time Data Exploration of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam Domestic Interiors’, Open Archaeology, vol. 7 (1), 314-336. https://doi.org/10.1515/opar-2020-0142
Li, Weixuan 2021. A Network of Iconography: Tracing the Evolution of Iconography in History Paintings in the Dutch Golden Age. Early Modern Low Countries, 5(2), 216-249. https://doi.org/10.51750/emlc11334
Li, Weixuan 2021. Spotting Specialists: A Digital Approach to Contemporary Concepts of Genre and Specialisation. In Questioning Pictorial Genres in Dutch Seventeenth-Century Art: Definitions, Artistic Practices, Market & Society (pp. 43-71). Brepols Publishers.
Li, Weixuan 2020. ‘The Hands Behind De Lairesse’s Masterpieces: Gerard de Lairesse’s workshop practice,’ Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art, vol. 12 (1). https://jhna.org/articles/the-hands-behind-lairesses-masterpieces-gerard-de-lairesses-workshop-practice/
Huurdeman, Hugo and Chiara Piccoli 2020. “More than just a Picture” -The Importance of Context in Search User Interfaces for Three-Dimensional Content’, CHIIR ’20: Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, March 2020, pp. 338–342. https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3343413.3377994
Li, Weixuan, Chiara Piccoli and Charles van den Heuvel 2019. ‘Embracing Complex Interfaces Linking Deep Maps and Virtual Interiors to Big Data of the Dutch Golden Age’, Digital Humanities conference, July 2019, Utrecht, Netherlands. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0145.html
Li, Weixuan 2019. ‘Innovative Exuberance: Visualizing the fluctuations in painting production in the 17th-century Northern Netherlands’, Arts, Special Issue: Art Markets and Digital Histories, vol. 8 (2), 72. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/8/2/72
Van den Heuvel, Charles (forthcoming). ‘Interacting with Big Historical Data of the Dutch Golden Age: Golden Agents and Virtual Interiors’, in R. El Khatib and C. Winter, New Technologies and Renaissance Studies, New York/Toronto: Iter Press.