After doing the readings for this week and listening to the lecture today concerning global Baroque art, I have many different definitions of “Baroque art” coming to mind. However, it is difficult for me to come up with an original way of describing it since Wölfflin and Martin’s ways of viewing Baroque art are very much stuck in my head now. Combining these ways of approaching Baroque, along with my own conclusions, I think that I would define it as works from the 17th century that break the artistic conventions of the time through the use of narrative, deception, and irregularities in form or composition. This can be seen in all different mediums from paintings to sculpture to buildings and more. These works can be confirmed as being Baroque when compared to the style of the time and how they differ from each other, with variations potentially counting as Baroque art.
As for my understanding of digital humanities, I am a little more unsure about all the possibilities and resources this encompasses. However, from my understanding this can be summed up by being a collaborative concept that is meant to be worked on by many different individuals of many different fields of study, whose aim is to make accessing information easier. This collaboration occurs online so that it can be viewed by the general public and other collaborators who can bring their own field of study’s research to the table. However, the digital humanities face issues due to scholars’ desires for sole recognition as opposed to sharing recognition for the body of work produced which makes them hesitant to be collaborative in their research endeavors. Hopefully, these struggles will be overcome and people everywhere will be able to easily recognize the great benefits that digital humanities offers the world, and the greater amount of people it will be able to reach.