Image-matching technology applied to Fifteenth-century printed book illustration

Matilde Malaspina, Yujie Zhong
2017 Lettera Matematica  
This article examines how image-matching and content-based image retrieval technologies can be fruitfully applied to track the reuse and circulation of illustrations found in Fifteenth-century printed books. The possibility of tracking precisely and quickly the multiple occurrences of a single woodcut through one or different editions will help scholars to further explore how printed material was exchanged between or copied by different printers, as well as to analyse the working practice of a
more » ... ingle printer, through a detailed reconstruction of his use of the illustrations in the composition of the printing sheets. Through the application of innovative computer science technologies, we learn more about the practical use of images, and therefore their cultural and social function, at the pivotal time of the spread of printing in the Western world.
doi:10.1007/s40329-017-0201-5 fatcat:bpkfizx3efaxlcu7pwqm3lg73i