Sustaining a Global Community: Art and Religion in the Network of Baroque Hispanic-American Paintings

The authors analyze the network of Hispanic baroque paintings from 1550 to 1850. They divide the dataset of 11,443 works from Spain and Latin America into 25-year periods in order to study the evolution of the paintings' 211 descriptors. The analysis shows that most of the paintings are linked...

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Published in:Leonardo (Oxford) 2012-06, Vol.45 (3), p.281-281
Main Authors: Suárez, Juan Luis, Sancho, Fernando, de la Rosa, Javier
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Abstract art
Baroque art
Community structure
Datasets
Hispanics
International community
Special Section of Leonardo Transactions: Arts, Humanities and Complex Networks
Sustainability science
Sustainable communities
Sustainable development
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Summary:The authors analyze the network of Hispanic baroque paintings from 1550 to 1850. They divide the dataset of 11,443 works from Spain and Latin America into 25-year periods in order to study the evolution of the paintings' 211 descriptors. The analysis shows that most of the paintings are linked through genre and theme and that religious Christian themes make up the overwhelming majority of connections among the paintings.
ISSN:0024-094X
1530-9282
DOI:10.1162/LEON_a_00374