Content and Ontology based Art Image Annotation and Retrieval
PrintArt is a project that gathers researchers from the Instituto Superior Tecnico, the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, and the Museu Nacional do Azulejo with the purpose of designing a software to aid the study and the identification of Portuguese tile art.
Mainly due to the ease of reproduction and transportation, prints were used as the favoured means to make pictures and information available throughout the world. In this way, these art works quickly reached the hands of craftsman which used them as sources of inspiration, replicating them in different media, among which the tiles are particularly noteworthy. Trademark of Portuguese culture, the tiles have been produced continuously for five centuries, benefiting from the original prints in composition and theme, but using them freely; changing proportions, adding and removing figures, simplifying or enriching backgrounds, inverting figures, among other things.
