Renaissance Venetian Art Network

As we may think (see). Favouring a non-linear narrative, sometimes the diagram appears as an interface of sorts and as hypertextual device. The perception of the evident shape already transmits knowledge. Every node is the beginning and an entry point, as well as a continuation of paths already started.

Here, on a network diagram, formed by nodes and links, stay the connections to pages of more information (in this case, the Wikipedia pages about Renaissance artists). An individual, the artist, might migrate and move across these centers where more opportunities arise, looking for patrons and comissions, moving away from agitated areas.

Exploring here some graphic types, to map the basic info I have about artists and their centers of attraction ( Florence, Rome, Venice) in Renaissance Italy. First using apps as that helped me to shape the data, and then with the help of LLMs such as ClaudeAI and ChatGPT. The attempts with the former were better than the latter in term of outputs. In some regard, it is still like before, reading and tweaking here and there until arriving to some convincing result and knowing how to read between the lines, as always is when dealing with code.