Epilogue: Renaissance Somaesthetics in a Digital World

Abstract

The epilogue highlights a somaesthetic turn in contemporary pedagogical tools used to teach the Renaissance and engage virtual viewers. It highlights select cases of digital humanities projects to demonstrate how researchers have provided new sensory-driven access to historical experience, and explores how the digital platform disrupts hegemonic discourse through its design, which relies on a user’s actions to generate a personalized experience. The epilogue argues that mindful interaction with these tools provides a means to come to know Renaissance works through the body and points to the constructive ways that somaesthetic cultivation can reinvigorate the first-hand experience of art in the museum and beyond.