Art and Art History Collection (Saskia)
The Art and Art History Collection from Saskia Ltd., Cultural Documentation features a wide range of digital images with an emphasis on the history of Western art. There are 3,645 images in this collection. Image sets include: The Dresden Collection, Brueghel and Rubens, Ancient Greek Art (Architecture and Sculpture), Ancient Art (Minoan and Roman), Roman Art, Michelangelo, Italian Renaissance, Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and Contemporary Architecture. Images from art history textbooks include: Gardner, Expanded Gardner, Stokstad, Gilbert, Hartt, Cunningham, and Reich.
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Demetrius of Phalerum, Right
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Detailed view of head from front right, restorations are visible around the nose
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Deposition from the Cross (detail)
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This is one of Fra Angelico's most profound works. Hushed, respectful, and completely devout, the assembled figures present a scene that equates clarity of form, purity of color, and rationally conceived proportions with transcendent spirituality. The mode of expression is dignified, rational, and human.
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Deposition from the Cross (detail)
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This is one of Fra Angelico's most profound works. Hushed, respectful, and completely devout, the assembled figures present a scene that equates clarity of form, purity of color, and rationally conceived proportions with transcendent spirituality. The mode of expression is dignified, rational, and human.
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Deposition from the Cross (detail)
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This is one of Fra Angelico's most profound works. Hushed, respectful, and completely devout, the assembled figures present a scene that equates clarity of form, purity of color, and rationally conceived proportions with transcendent spirituality. The mode of expression is dignified, rational, and human.
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Dieppe, Bassin Duquesne
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Pissarro's impressionism has much of the sobriety of Sisley's but less reflective. he was the oldest member of the group, being two years older even than Edouard Manet. Everyone who knew Pissarro seems to have left some account of him, and by all these accounts his life and his character were a catalog of virtues - loyalty to his friends, wisdom as the father of a large family, courage in adversity, and patience, tolerance, honesty, and industry in all circumstances.
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Dieppe, Bassin Duquesne
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Pissarro was the only Impressionist painter who participated in all eight of the group's exhibitions. His kindness, warmth, wisdom, and encouraging words cast him in a fatherly role to struggling younger artists
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Dionysiac Mystery Frieze. Room 5 of Villa of the Mysteries
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The Dionysiac, or Bacchic, societies flourished in the whole empire
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Doge's Palace (left) and Libreria Vecchia (right)
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Overall view of both palaces toward Lagoon from Terrace of Duomo
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Dome of Florence Cathedral
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Detail of decoration & buttress of half-dome seen from "Giotto's Tower"
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Don Quixote and the Dead Mule (detail) Don Quixote, Sancho Pansa and the Dead Mule
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This work, one of many versions of the subject that Daumier painted after 1864, illustrates a passage from Don Quixote, the famous epic novel by Cervantes (1547
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Don Quixote and the Dead Mule (detail) Don Quixote, Sancho Pansa and the Dead Mule
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Daumier experimented with oils including several on the theme of Don Quixote, although many of his pictures remained unfinished, producing loosely handled, thickly impasto works of strong chiaroscuro.
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Don Quixote and the Dead Mule Don Quixote, Sancho Pansa and the Dead Mule
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Daumier did a number of paintings featuring Don Quixote as a larger-than-life hero. His technique was remarkably broad and free.
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Doric Temple of Zeus, A
Libon of Elis Architect, Paeonium (Designer), and Alcamanes (Designer)
East view along the Southern colonnade
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Doric Temple of Zeus, B
Libon of Elis Architect, Paeonium (Designer), and Alcamanes (Designer)
Toppled columns of the Southern colonnade
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Doric Temple of Zeus, C
Libon of Elis Architect, Paeonium (Designer), and Alcamanes (Designer)
Toppled columns of the Southern colonnade
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Doric Temple of Zeus, Palaestra, A
Libon of Elis Architect, Paeonium (Designer), and Alcamanes (Designer)
Eastern side of the Palaestra
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Doric Temple of Zeus, Palaestra, B
Libon of Elis Architect, Paeonium (Designer), and Alcamanes (Designer)
Southeast corner of the Palaestra
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Doryphoros, Roman Copy
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Total view of sculpture from front center, featured is the spear-bearer Doryphoros
