The Samuel H. Kress Foundation has been instrumental in supporting the redevelopment of the BASIRA database by means of a Digital Humanities grant awarded in 2020. Find the Kress Foundation’s news release regarding the BASIRA Project here: https://www.kressfoundation.org/news/basira-books-as-symbols-in-renaissance-art Continue reading The Samuel H. Kress Foundation announces the BASIRA Project

The BASIRA Project has issued a call for papers for the Renaissance Society of America annual conference in Boston, March 20–22, 2025. Text-in-Image in Early Modernity Much recent scholarship has focused on the myriad interdependencies of text and image in the early modern period, while generally upholding distinct medial boundaries for each. However, rather less attention has been paid to texts that exist as elements … Continue reading “Text-in-Image in Early Modernity”: BASIRA Call for Papers for RSA 2025 conference, due Aug. 8th 2024