The University of Chicago received a $349,969 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to develop "FLORENCE ILLUMINATED: VISUALIZING THE HISTORY OF ART, ARCHITECTURE, AND SOCIETY." This 2-year project, with an award date of September 1, 2024, will create a free online research platform that serves as a repeatable model for integrating and sharing digital humanities research on Florentine cultural history. The platform will aggregate diverse data on people, groups, spaces, and objects that contributed to Florence's growth and diversification during the early modern period, providing an unprecedented scale of scholarship on Renaissance Florence. This proof-of-concept initiative will leverage the university's expertise to produce a comprehensive dataset drawing from five existing Florentine cultural history projects, offering collaborative exploration of the city's social and material infrastructure.
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