A colleague of mine passed this tidbit on to me this morning. What a great use of GIS to inform study in the humanities! From an article in Campus Technology:
An interdisciplinary team from the University of Oregon’s School of Architecture and Allied Arts and the College of Arts and Sciences collaborated with scholars in Rome to produce a new Web site dedicated to the work of one of Rome’s great vedutisti–or cityscape artists. The intention is to provide a rich historical resource for educators, scholars, students and others.
“Imago Urbis: Giuseppe Vasi’s Grand Tour of Rome” presents a geographic database and Web site that brings to life the work of two 18th century masters of Rome’s urban and architectural treasures: Giambattista Nolli (1701-1756), who published the first accurate map of Rome (La Pianta Grande di Roma, 1748); and his contemporary, Giuseppe Vasi (1710-1782), whose comprehensive views of the city and its monuments from 1747-1761, can be precisely located and explored by using the Nolli map as a reference.
