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Sustainable publishing platform for digital artists’ letters
In collaboration with the Huygens Institute and the Van Gogh Museum, the website has recently been further developed into a platform that brings together artists’ letters from various collections.
Promising results: Watermarks in Dutch Drawings now available
The Watermarks project uses innovative digital tools and image processing techniques to improve the process of watermark identification and compar
Provenance Research on Cultural Artefacts from the Second World War: Theory and Practice
Learn about the basic techniques of provenance research and try your hand at a case study during the in-depth workshop on 19 November, which will focus on provenance research into cultural property from the period 1933–1945.
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