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<!DOCTYPE html> <html version="HTML+RDFa 1.1" lang="en" prefix="foaf: http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/ owl: http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl# schema: https://schema.org/ time: http://www.w3.org/2006/time# skos: http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core# rdf: http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns# bio: http://purl.org/vocab/bio/0.1/ wdps: http://www.wikidata.org/prop/statement/ ecartico: https://ecartico.org/lod/vocab# rdfs: http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema# pnv: https://w3id.org/pnv# sem: http://semanticweb.cs.vu.nl/2009/11/sem/ ogcgs: http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql# ogcsf: http://www.opengis.net/ont/sf#" id="description"> <head about="#description" typeof="schema:CreativeWork schema:DataFeedItem"> <meta charset="utf-8" /> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> <title>Ecartico</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://ecartico.org/style2024.css" media="screen" /> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://ecartico.org/jscripts.js"></script> </head> <body> <header> <a id="navskip" href="#kader">Skip to main content</a> <div id="projecttop">  </div> <div id="projectpadding"> <div id="projectacronym">ECARTICO</div> Linking cultural industries in the early modern Low Countries, ca. 1475 - ca. 1725 </div> </header><nav><ul id="menu"> <li><a href="https://ecartico.org/" class="active">About ECARTICO</a></li> <li><a href="https://ecartico.org/analysis/">Analysis</a></li> <li><a href="https://ecartico.org/persons/">Search & browse</a></li> <li><a href="https://ecartico.org/impressum/">Impressum</a></li> </ul></nav> <div id="kader"> <article id="setwidth" > <h1>About ECARTICO</h1> <p>ECARTICO is a comprehensive collection of structured biographical data concerning painters, engravers, printers, book sellers, gold- and silversmiths and others involved in the ‘cultural industries’ of the Low Countries in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. As in other biographical databases, users can <a href="persons/">search and browse</a> for data on individuals or make selections of certain types of data. However, ECARTICO also allows users to <a href="analysis/">visualize and analyze</a> data on cultural entrepreneurs and their ‘milieus’.</p> <h2>Focus on analysis</h2> <p>The focus on analysis sets ECARTICO apart from other (biographical) resources in this field. One of the reasons to start with ECARTICO was that we felt that available resources were primarily designed for storage and retrieval of single data with little ‑ if any ‑ opportunities for aggregation and analysis. As a consequence other resources also offer poor support for modelling social and genealogical networks.</p> <p>ECARTICO was not designed as an electronic reference work, although it can be used as such. Rather think of ECARTICO as a ‘social medium’ for the cultural industries of the Dutch and Flemish Golden Ages.</p> <h2>Old and new data</h2> <p>ECARTICO is standing on the shoulders of giants. Much of the data present in ECARTICO is derived from the wealth of biographical and genealogical studies, that has been published over the last centuries. Also much data is derived from original research on primary sources. Many biographical details can be found in ECARTICO, that can not be found anywhere else.</p> <h2>History</h2> <p>ECARTICO has its roots in the research project <a href="http://www.nwo.nl/onderzoek-en-resultaten/onderzoeksprojecten/19/2300136219.html">Economic and Artistic Competition in the Amsterdam art market c. 1630-1690: history painting in Amsterdam in Rembrandt"s time</a>, which was funded by the <a href="http://www.nwo.nl/">Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research</a>, and headed by Eric Jan Sluijter and Marten Jan Bok. Initially it was intended as a prosopographical research database dealing with history painters in seventeenth century Amsterdam. However, the scope of the database has become much wider because we could build upon data compiled by Pieter Groenendijk for <a href="http://www.primaverapers.nl/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=16_12&products_id=151">his lexicon (2006)</a> of 16th and 17th century visual artists from the Northern and the Southern Netherlands.</p> <p>During the period 2010-2013 ECARTICO was further expanded within the research project The Cultural Industry of Amsterdam in the Golden Age, which was funded by the <a href="http://www.knaw.nl/">The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences</a>, and headed by Eric Jan Sluijter and Harm Nijboer. As part of this project the scope of ECARTICO has widened to other cultural industries like printing, publishing, sculpture, goldsmithery and theatre.</p> <h2>Lacunae</h2> <p>Up until now, data entry has been strongly inclined towards the Dutch Republic and with a focus on Amsterdam. Especially the Southern Netherlands are still underrepresented. For instance, data from the Antwerp <i>Liggeren</i> and the Bruges <i>Memorielijst</i> have not been entered systematically, yet.</p> <p>At this moment ECARTICO is still mostly geared towards visual artists. However we are catching up with publishers and printers at a fast pace.</p> <p>Do you want to assist in expanding ECARTICO? Please contact us!</p> <h2>Future development</h2> <p>New data are added on an almost daily base. Meanwhile the technological infrastructure of ECARTICO is kept under continuous review.</p> <p>Current projects are:</p> <ul> <li>Adding data on Dutch printers and publishers, prior to 1720</li> <li>Implementation of revision management</li> <li>Making ECARTICO available as Linked Open Data</li> </ul></article> <aside id="sidebox"> <h2>Overview</h2> <p>The database currently contains biographical data on 67 057 persons.</p><table> <tr><td>Painters: </td><td>9 718</td></tr> <tr><td>Engravers: </td><td>1 438</td></tr> <tr><td>Booksellers, printers and publishers: </td><td>3 456</td></tr> <tr><td>Gold- and silversmiths: </td><td>7 418</td></tr> <tr><td>Sculptors: </td><td>470</td></tr> </table> <h2>Latest entries</h2> <ul><li><a href="persons/69288">Sophia de Keerl (1625 - ?)</a></li><li><a href="persons/69287">Philips Kinckhuijsen (1625 - ?)</a></li><li><a href="persons/69286">Willemtijen Kinckhuijsen (1616 - ?)</a></li><li><a href="persons/69285">Jan van Gestel de Jonge (1616 - ?)</a></li><li><a href="persons/69284">Marie le Mahieu (1608 - ?)</a></li></ul> <h2>Milestones</h2> <dl> <dt>January 2020</dt> <dd>The 50,000th person was added to ECARTICO. The poet <a href="https://ecartico.org/persons/51263">Titia Brongersma</a> had the honor to mark this milestone.</dd> <dt>January 2017</dt> <dd>ECARTICO joined the <a href="https://www.goldenagents.org/">Golden Agents</a> team to collaborate in building a sustainable research infrastructure.</dd> <dt>July 2016</dt> <dd>The 25,000th person was added to ECARTICO. The publisher and bookseller <a href="https://ecartico.org/persons/25360">Samuel Halma</a> had the honor to mark this milestone.</dd> <dt>June 2016</dt> <dd>The people of Wikidata have introduced the <a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/P2915">ECARTICO person ID</a> property.</dd> <dt>2015-2016</dt> <dd>Stephanie Levert (Paris) added new biographical information on 350 Dutch and Flemish painters and sculptors active in Paris in the period between 1550 and 1700. She will publish the analysis of this material in her forthcoming dissertation <i>Les artistes Néerlandais à Paris (1550-1700): une prosopographie</i> (supervisor Rudi Ekkart, Universiteit Utrecht).</dd> <dt>2012-2013</dt> <dd>Jan Tervoort added data on Amsterdam based ‘kaartafzetters’ (illuminators of maps and prints).</dd> <dt>2012-2013</dt> <dd>Jirsi Reinders and Alice Souguir added biographical data on more than a thousand gold- and silversmiths from Amsterdam</dd> <dt>2011-2013</dt> <dd>Harm Nijboer, Marloes Scholtens, Marten Jan Bok, Merel Kramer, Jenny Körber and Neeltje van Aardenne added data on painters in Amsterdam, based on extensive research in the Amsterdam marriage, baptism and burial registers.</dd> <dt>2011-2012</dt> <dd>Michael Putter added biographical data on Amsterdam based engravers.</dd> <dt>December 2011</dt> <dd>ECARTICO was launched online.</dd> <dt>2009-2010</dt> <dd>Marten Jan Bok added new material on Dutch artists working in Asia within the project ‘The Reception of Netherlandish Art in Asia and its Impact on Asian and European Cultures’, headed by Michael North and Marten Jan Bok.</dd> </dl> </aside> </div> <footer class="bottomfooter"> <hr /> <a href="https://www.huygens.knaw.nl"><img src="https://ecartico.org/images/huygenslogo.svg" alt="Huygens Institute" /></a> </footer> </body> </html>