Digital art history resources

The first publication of the Renoir digital catalogue raisonné from the Wildenstein Plattner Institute leverages expanded capabilities of the Navigating.art platform

Highlights for art researchers from “New Thinking about the Catalogue Raisonné,” ICRA’s annual conference

Archival hierarchies: a comprehensive exploration of description levels

Understanding linked data and linked open data: a guide for art researchers

An API explainer for art researchers

A technical glossary for art researchers

Showcasing Navigating.art's sophisticated versioning system — “Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings” from the Wildenstein Plattner Institute
Paul Gauguin, Le Champ de pommes de terre, Summer 1890, Oil on canvas, 74.3 x 93.6 cm. Image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

From database to a global readership: developing the Akseli Gallen-Kallela catalogue raisonné project
The Akseli Gallen-Kallela catalogue raisonné projects offers a model for other researchers invested in Nordic artist, as well as living artists across the world.

Technology in support of scholarship: the revised catalogue raisonné of Claude Monet
New avenues of research into Claude Monet’s oeuvre await researchers in the first installment of Claude Monet: The Revised Catalogue Raisonné from The Wildenstein Plattner Institute (WPI).

What is a catalogue raisonné? And answers to other important questions
Paul Gauguin, Te raau rahi (The Big Tree), 1891, oil on canvas, 72.5 × 91.5 cm, Art Institute of Chicago. Image courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago.

How to create a catalogue raisonné team and other FAQs
Aleksi Gallen-Kallela, Parisian Backyard, 1884, oil on canvas, 28 × 23 cm, . Image courtesy of the /Finnish National Gallery and Jenni Nurminen

Upcoming digital catalogue raisonné events
Claude Monet, Étretat, l'Aiguille et la porte d’Aval, c. 1885, pastel on paper, 39 x 23 cm, Scottish National Gallery. Image courtesy of Scottish National Gallery.

Eva Hesse’s complete body of works on paper published in new digital catalogue raisonné

How AI empowers scholarship and digital catalogues raisonnés
Paul Gauguin, Nature morte à la coupe et aux fruits, c. 1892, oil on canvas, 20.3 x 31.4 cm, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Image courtesy of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

Why all museums should make their collections open access

How improving digital workflow leads to efficiency and impact
Paul Gauguin, Près des huttes, 1901, oil on canvas, 67.31 x 77.47 cm, Carnegie Museum of Art. Image courtesy of the Carnegie Museum of Art.

Ten principles of digital cataloguing

How to affordably produce a quality digital catalogue raisonné
Aleksi Gallen-Kallela, Lakeside Landscape, 1911, oil on canvas, 42,5 × 33,5 cm, Ateneum Art Museum. Image courtesy of Ateneum Art Museum/Finnish National Gallery and Jenni Nurminen.

How standardization is making museum administration easier
Aleski Gallen-Kallela, The Great Black Woodpecker, 1893, gouache, 145 × 90 cm, Ateneum Art Museum. Image courtesy of Ateneum Art Museum/Finnish National Gallery.
