Early California Art and AI - A Study of Mission San José del Cabo
Early California Art and AI - A Study of Mission San José del Cabo There are precious few primary source images of the mission period in Las Californias (1697 - c. 1834). The images that do exist, however, have been crucial in understanding this time period in the region's history. While many institutions have digitized these materials, new AI-based technology may offer possibilities to enhance or understand these images in new ways. For this study, I will focus on the following images of Mission San Jos é del Cabo at the southern edge of the peninsula of Baja California: 1762-1766 - Watercolors produced by the Jesuit missionary Fr. Ignacio Tirsch of Baja California (click on " Faksimile (97) " on the digital archive of the Czech National Library. The specific image studied here will be image 8r). 1769 - Three images produced by Alexandre Jean Noël during an expedition to observe a transit of the planet Venus across the sun on June 3, ...