NEH Awards Grant to Florence Project                        

The News-Gazette

George Bent, David Pfaff and Mackenzie Brooks from Washington and Lee University are part of a consortium that was selected by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to receive one of the organization’s Humanities Collections and Reference Resources (HCRR) grant.

The consortium, headquartered at the University of Chicago’s Department of Art History, received $349,969 in total to fund a humanities project titled “Florence Illuminated: Visualizing the History of Art, Architecture and Society.” The project seeks to build a platform that will bring together data from five individual digital humanities projects focused on the cultural history of late medieval and early modern Florence.

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