CENOBIUM – A Project for the Multimedia Representation of Romanesque Cloister Capitals in the Mediterranean Region

A co-operation between the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz and the Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "A. Faedo", an institute of the National Research Council of Italy, in Pisa

The aim of the CENOBIUM project is to facilitate, by means of high-resolution digital photography, video, 3D scanning and an interactive web interface, the analysis of the complex dynamics of artistic exchange in the 12th and 13th century.

The project focuses on medieval cloisters with historiated capitals. The three most important centres of Romanesque cloisters lie in Languedoc-Roussillon in France, in the northern regions of Spain and on Sicily. They offer a reflection of the culture of their day, which was characterized – thanks to increasing mobility along pilgrimage and trade routes – by a growing exchange between the metropolises and monasteries within Europe as well as in the Mediterranean sphere.

The project is being undertaken for research purposes, but is also suitable for teaching, for use by museums and as documentation for conservation and restoration.
The Romanesque capitals from the cloisters at Monreale, Cefalù, Aosta (Italy) and Moissac (France) are already freely accessible in virtual form on the CENOBIUM website. In 2015 two further campaigns, in this case involving Spanish project partners, were carried out in the Navarra region: at San Pedro de la Rúa in Estella (1170) and at Santa María in Tudela (1186) immediately after its restoration.

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Ute Dercks, Federico Ponchio, Roberto Scopigno: CENOBIUM 10 Years after: An evolving Platform for Digital Humanities.
In: Archeologia e Calcolatori. Supplemento 10, 2018, pp. 123-141

Ute Dercks: Kapitellskulptur des 12./13. Jahrhunderts in multimedialer Vision.
In: Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History Rg 24 (2016), pp. 361-363

Ute Dercks : Le chapiteau de la dédicace à Monreale et les chapiteaux historiés des cloîtres d'Italie méridionale et de Sicile
In: Les Cahiers de Saint–Michel de Cuxa, XLVI, 2015, pp. 107–118

Ute Dercks, Federico Ponchio, Roberto Scopigno: CENOBIUM – A project for the Multimedia Representation of Romanesque Cloister Capitals in the Mediterranean Region
In: EVA 2012 Berlin (Elektronische Medien & Kunst, Kultur, Historie), hrsg. von Andreas Bienert, Frank Weckend, James Hemsley, Berlin 2012, pp. 78–83

Ute Dercks: Medioevo interattivo: CENOBIUM – un progetto per i capitelli romanici nel Mediterraneo
In: Tagungsband Contextos 1200 i 1400. Art de Catalunya i art de l’Europa meridional en dos canvis de segle zum Symposion der Universität Barcelona vom 4.-8. Nov. 2009, hrsg. von  Rosa Alcoy, Barcelona 2012, pp. 383–391

Massimiliano Corsini, Matteo Dellepiane, Ute Dercks, Federico Ponchio, Marco Callieri, Dagmar Keultjes, Andrea Marinello, Roberto Sigismondi, Roberto Scopigno, Gerhard Wolf: CENOBIUM – Putting together the Romanesque Cloister Capitals of the Mediterranean Region
In: Space, Time, Place. Third International Conference on Remote Sensing in Archaeology, 17th-21st August 2009, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India, edited by Stefano Campana, Maurizio Forte and Claudia Liuzzain (= British Archeology Reports S2118), Oxford 2010, pp. 189–194

Ute Dercks: CENOBIUM – ein Projekt zur multimedialen Darstellung und Erforschung romanischer Kreuzgangkapitelle im Mittelmeerraum
In: Sizilien. Von Odysseus bis Garibaldi. Katalog zur Ausstellung der Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in Bonn, München/Berlin 2008, pp. 301–302

Clara Baracchini, Marco Callieri, Massimiliano Corsini, Matteo Dellepiane, Ute Dercks, Dagmar Keultjes, Claudio Montani, Matteo Scognamiglio, Roberto Scopigno, Roberto Sigismondi, Gerhard Wolf: Cenobium – Cultural Electronic Network online: Binding up interoperably usable multimedia
In: Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts (EVA-Florence 2007), Bologna 2007, pp. 72–77

Clara Baracchini, Marco Callieri, Massimiliano Corsini, Matteo Dellepiane, Ute Dercks, Dagmar Keultjes, Claudio Montani, Matteo Scognamiglio, Roberto Scopigno, Roberto Sigismondi, Gerhard Wolf: Starting the CENOBIUM Project: The cloister of Monreale (Sicily) Revealed
In: The 7th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (VAST 2006), pp. 100–110

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