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Project Sponsors
The Years of the Cupola was undertaken as a
“pilot project” by the Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore, which has
financed it directly since 1994. The project has also enjoyed significant
outside financial support. The Opera gratefully acknowledges the grants received
from:
The Getty Grant Program of the J. Paul
Getty Trust
Assessorato della Cultura of the Regione
Toscana
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The Opera further thanks the following
institutions for important collaborative contributions essential to the
realization of the project:
Max-Planck-Institut for
the History of Science, Berlin - conversion of data into XML format and HTML
programming for Internet; mirror site in Berlin
ECHO (European Cultural Heritage Online) - programming for the prototype of the virtual archive of images and contribution towards the cost of acquisition and preparation of photographic material
Department for the
Conservation of Books and Manuscripts, Fachhochschule, Cologne – digital
photography of flood-damaged books
Institute of Computational
Linguistics of the National Research Council (C.N.R.), Pisa, DBT group – furnishing and
customization of basic software for data analysis and consultation in DBT
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