The Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance

The Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance (https://www.census.de/home/) is a historic research project sustained by international collaboration for over 75 years. Its fundamental aim has been to trace the knowledge of antiquity in the Renaissance (1400-1600) by linking antique monuments (such as statues, coins and buildings) with the Renaissance texts (such as guidebooks or descriptions) and Renaissance images (such as prints, drawings, statuettes, medals and paintings) that respond to them. The Census was digitised in the 1980s and is now searchable via an open access database (https://database.census.de). Since the 1990s, it has been tied to a Professorship of Early Modern Art at the Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.