Activity A: Paintings catalogue in Jupyter Notebook

Objective: Make a selection of nine paintings for the exhibition catalogue to be selected from Wikidata and rendered multi-format in Quarto.

The below Python code uses SPARQLWrapper to retrieve data from Wikidata based on a SPARQL query.

Wikidata link: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q29474642

Title: The Birth of Benjamin

Year: 1650

Creator: Francesco Furini

Copyright: public domain

Wikidata link: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q29474649

Title: A Cynical Philosopher

Year: 1650

Creator: Luca Giordano

Copyright: public domain

Wikidata link: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q29474651

Title: Solomon and the Queen of Sheba

Year: 1697

Creator: Luca Giordano

Copyright: public domain

Wikidata link: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q29477235

Title: Q29477235

Year: 1674

Creator: Antonio Triva

Copyright: public domain

Wikidata link: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q29477863

Title: Q29477863

Year: 1633

Creator: Guido Reni

Copyright: public domain

Wikidata link: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q29477898

Title: Still-Life with Books

Year: 1628

Creator: Jan Lievens

Copyright: public domain

Wikidata link: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q29480557

Title: Feast of Herod

Year: 1630

Creator: http://www.wikidata.org/.well-known/genid/3f945710e81609ba4bae458b2820460a

Copyright: public domain

Wikidata link: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q29480565

Title: Venus and Cupid

Year: 1625

Creator: Heinrich Bollandt

Copyright: public domain

Wikidata link: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q29480594

Title: Still-life with Parrot

Year: 1630

Creator: Georg Flegel

Copyright: public domain