Mapping Gothic

Stephen Murray, Andrew Tallon, Rory O’Neill, Stefaan van Liefferinge

«Archeologia e Calcolatori» 2018, Supplemento 10, 143-153; doi: 10.19282/ACS.10.2018.09

Abstract

Mapping Gothic (http://www.mappinggothic.com/) first began in summer 2008 as Mapping Gothic France. Funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the project was initiated at the Columbia University, Department of Art History and Archaeology. The team conducted five expeditions to gather high-resolution images and other data from great Gothic churches, which in this ambitious website project were located both in space and time. As work pro- gressed the geographical scope was widened to include England and hopefully also Spain and Germany. Whereas pictures can be satisfactorily represented in two dimensions in a book or on a computer screen, space - especially Gothic space - demands a different approach, one which embraces not only the architectonic volume but also time and narrative. The intention has been not just to develop a more appropriate way of representing the spaciousness of indi- vidual monuments, but also to provide the user of the site with new ways to understand the relationship of hundreds of buildings conventionally described as ‘Gothic’.

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