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Ceiling Painting and Artificial Intelligence

The thematic conference ‘AI Methods in the Academies’ Programme: Potentials and Application Scenarios‘ toke  place in Hamburg from 23 to 25 September 2024, hosted by the Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg and the Göttingen-based Lower Saxony Academy of Sciences and Humanities. The event focused on discussing and testing the potential of AI methods for analysing and processing digital resources, particularly within the framework of the Academies’ Programme, the Research program for Cultural Heritage, sponsored by the Union of German Academies of Science.

During the conference, Theresa Baumann, Matteo Burioni and Max Kristen presented the paper ‘Preliminary considerations for AI applications in the corpus of baroque ceiling paintings’.

Program

Ceiling Painting and Virtual Reality

Matteo Burioni gave a talk on ‘Ceiling Painting and Virtual Reality’ at the “Open House at the LRZ: From super to quantum computing and virtual worlds” on 3 October 2024 at the Leibniz Supercomputing Center of the Bavarian Academy of Science and Humanities in Garching (near Munich). In the talk, he also mentioned the research in the German-French project and the collaboration on the 3D survey and reconstruction between France and Germany in the DFG/ANR project.

https://www.lrz.de/wir/tag-der-offenen-tuer/

Wikidata, Wikipedia and Ceiling Painting (WikiCon 2024)

Maximilian Kristen, student assistant of the DFG/ANR project, gave a talk at WikiCon 2024 in Wiesbaden on 5 October 2024 titled ‘WikiFAIR – Can research become FAIRer through integration in Wikimedia projects?’. In this talk, he talked about Wikidata and Wikipedia for research projects in the field of cultural heritage, using the example of combining cultural heritage data from Germany and France.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiCon_2024/Programm/WikiFAIR

Workshop in Potsdam, Dresden and Saxony, 13-15 June 2024

Thursday, 13 June 2024, 2:00-6:00 p.m.
Workshop at the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation in Potsdam.
„ Eine Verflechtungsgeschichte der Deckenmalerei in Frankreich und Deutschland 1600-1800“ – „Une histoire croisée des plafonds peints : France-Allemagne, 1600-1800“

Program: 2024_06_DFGANR_SPSG_Potsdam

The Saxon State Office for the Preservation of Historical Monuments posts about the visit of the team.

2:00 pm Welcome Christoph Martin Vogtherr (Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation)
2:15 pm Olivier Bonfait (Université de Dijon)/ Matteo Burioni (LMU Munich), Results of the project
2:30 pm Matteo Burioni (LMU Munich), Frederick and the Ceiling Paintings
3:15 pm Mona Hess/John Hindmarch (University of Bamberg), Surveying Rheinsberg Palace
16.00 Coffee break
16.30 Anne Ilaria Weiß (LMU Munich), The Crown Prince’s Apartment in Rheinsberg Palace.
Response by Christoph Martin Vogtherr (Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation)
17.45 Closing remarks Stephan Hoppe (LMU Munich)

Friday, 14 June 2024
10.00 a.m. Gohliser Schlösschen, Leipzig
13.00 Visit of the chapel of Hubertusburg Castle in Wermsdorf
16.00 Radebeul, Hoflößnitz

Saturday, 15 June 2024
9 am Japanese Palace with Prof. Henrik Karge (TU Dresden)
11 am Palais im Großen Garten, Workshop,
Staatliche Schlösser, Burgen und Gärten Sachsen gemeinnützige GmbH
11.15 am Stephan Hoppe (LMU Munich), The Palace of the Great Garden
12.15 pm Mona Hess/John Hindmarch (Bamberg University), Digital Surveying
2:00 p.m. Dresden Royal Palace, Parade Rooms, with a welcome address by Marius Winzeler
Visit to the parade rooms of August the Strong, Sabine Poeschel

10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Plankammer of the Saxon State Office for the Preservation of Historical Monuments (Martin Schuster)

Two publication in ISPRS Archives and Annals

Two papers of the German 3D Team outlining the approach to imaging the three sites with ceiling paintings in Dresden, Ansbach and Rheinsberg have  been published:

Hindmarch, J., Burioni, M.,Hess, M.: FLEXIBLE WORKFLOW FOR MULTIMODAL 3D IMAGING OF VAULTED PAINTED CEILINGS IN HIGH DETAIL, ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., X-M-1-2023, 133–141, https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-X-M-1-2023-133-2023

Hindmarch, J., Hess, M., Groh, M., Burioni, M.: SEMI-AUTOMATED METHODOLOGY FOR 3D IMAGING OF LARGE VAULTED CEILING PAINTINGS, Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLVIII-M-2-2023-721-2023, 2023

Exhibition in Washington on Drawings for Painted Ceilings

At the National Gallery in Washington a series of 30 preparatory drawings for painted ceilings is currently to be seen. The show “Looking Up: Studies for Ceilings, 1550–1800” runs January 29 – July 9, 2023.  The exhibition is curated by Jonathan Bober, former Andrew W. Mellon Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art.

Johann Georg Dieffenbrunner, The Stoning of Saint Stephen, 1754. Washington, National Gallery of Art