I’ve been very lucky this semester while working on my thesis. I am currently enrolled in an art history seminar that is taught at the Metropolitain Museum of Art by a curator, and she has helped to arrange access to the curatorial file for the self-portrait by Rose Ducreux and […]
As Professor Anne Higonnet has told me a couple of times this semester, “the stars seem to be aligned for this project” and she certainly was right today. This morning she and I had the pleasure of visiting a private collector of Sèvres 18th C porcelain at her home in […]
Computerized scholarship is a beautiful thing. So much can be done, we weren’t able to do before. We can enter troves of data, tag it intelligently, and explore new connections through visualization, or discover them quicker than before. We can present scholarship in new ways — if done right, more […]
Over the last week (plus) I have continued to chip away at my pile of reading, collect notes, and I formulated my preliminary proposal which was turned in on Tuesday October 6. In terms of where I am in my research, I would say I still have a ways to […]
I, like my peer Megan Baker, have decided to further the work I began in Professor Anne Higonnet’s Spring 2015 course A Virtual Enlightenment and turn it into my senior thesis at Barnard College. My work for Professor Higonnet’s seminar dealt with French eighteenth-century materials and their makers whereby my individual […]
I was chosen to continue to work on the websites over the course of the summer as one of the post-production interns. During that time, I did research on Rose-Adélaïde Ducreux, a very talented eighteenth-century French painter whose self-portrait is in the center of the Tessé Room. Mademoiselle Ducreux was […]
Going forward, I’d be really interested in doing a very comprehensive page (or pages) on the guild system in Paris. Though our page centers on Materials and Their Makers, I feel like we kind of left out explicitly explaining the roles and importance of the artisans in favor of talking […]
It became abundantly clear while working on this project that my original conception of my project would not be completed, not because I did not put in adequate effort, but because I imagined a best case scenario, a fantasy. As someone who began the semester with little to no computer […]
At the beginning of the semester, our group defined our focus statement as such: We will create a website using css and html on a wordpress platform to make the Tessé room accessible to all visitors to the Met. We will do this by using transparent language, showing video and […]
I would like a few changes to be made to my portion of the Materials and their Makers project. I think a separate page for each type of fabric used in the body of clothing would be desirable. Right now, I have a brief description of silk, cotton, linen, and […]
