Institute in Ancient Itineraries
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Principal Investigator
- Stuart Dunn
Description
Taken from the project website (Accessed 2025-12-08):
The Ancient Itineraries programme, funded by the Getty Foundation as part of its Digital Art History initiative, sought to explore both senses of “Digital” as it applies to art history. The programme took the form of two meetings of researchers, academics and practitioners which brought together a very broad array of expertise. The first meeting was held at King’s College London, and the other at the Swedish Institute in Athens...
The aim of the Ancient Itineraries programme was to map out the future of three key methodological topics in relation to the digital art history of the Classical world: provenance, geographies and visualization. We assessed three families of methods, beginning with the capacities of the WWW to link information together.
A major outcome of the two Ancient Itineraries Institutes was the creation a Proof of Concept (PoC) for digital art history research, developed by the King’s Digital Laboratory (KDL). This key outcome was framed by the thematic division described above; as an exemplum of a resource that art historians, museologists, and conservators could use to advance their knowledge.