Mining the Cloud of Witness: Inferring the Prestige of Saints from Medieval Paintings

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Thomas Lombardi
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This paper explores the possibility of applying the concept of distant reading to visual culture. Using a corpus of medieval images of St. Francis, the study incorporates data mining and network analysis to infer the prestige of saints. In turn, these measurements provide the basis for testing and exploring themes related to the artwork. Despite some methodological issues, the approach produces results consistent with our historical understanding of this artwork and its context.

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Thomas Lombardi. 2015. \u201cMining the Cloud of Witness: Inferring the Prestige of Saints from Medieval Paintings\u201d. Global Journal of Human-Social Science - A: Arts & Humanities GJHSS-A Volume 14 (GJHSS Volume 14 Issue A11): .

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This paper explores the possibility of applying the concept of distant reading to visual culture. Using a corpus of medieval images of St. Francis, the study incorporates data mining and network analysis to infer the prestige of saints. In turn, these measurements provide the basis for testing and exploring themes related to the artwork. Despite some methodological issues, the approach produces results consistent with our historical understanding of this artwork and its context.

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