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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
As a class, I feel strongly that we learned, we created, and we conquered. I grew exponentially as a student and a young art historian, as well as nurtured a passion for the digital humanities. As my final blog post for A Virtual Enlightenment I would like to re-cap my experience […]
This past weekend, our group reserved rooms on campus from 10 – 5 on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday and spent time working on our website together and getting it into a form that we are satisfied with. While we still have some text edits to do, we have finally reached […]
This week, we’re trying to focus in on our research materials for our individual projects so we can start drafting the content that’ll ultimately be on each of our webpages. Our goal is to be ready to put information on the website next weekend, when we’re going to have a […]
This past week we have worked on designing and integrating our home page of our website. This included drawing an image of the Tésse Room floor plan and editing it in Illustrator, coding the color bar using Digital Color Meter and PhotoShop, brainstorming on our logo for our website, setting […]
During our group meeting this week, we discussed several possibilities for wireframes, and our favorite one so far is attached. We plan to use a black and white color scheme (inspired by Encyclopédie plates) with accents of the “Tessé room green.” Because we will have a color and materials bar […]
