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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The Last Supper (detail)
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Jacopo Bassano's Last Supper is one of the masterpieces of 16th-century Italian painting. Instead of the elegant grouping of figures in Leonardo's painting, which inspired it, this dramatic scene features barefoot fishermen at the crucial moment when Christ asks who will betray him, and the light passing through a glass of wine stains the clean tablecloth red. Recent restoration has only now revealed the extraordinary original colours, which had been heavily painted over in the 19th century, when the emerald green and iridescent pinks and oranges were not in fashion.
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The Last Supper
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Jacopo Bassano's Last Supper is one of the masterpieces of 16th-century Italian painting. Instead of the elegant grouping of figures in Leonardo's painting, which inspired it, this dramatic scene features barefoot fishermen at the crucial moment when Christ asks who will betray him, and the light passing through a glass of wine stains the clean tablecloth red. Recent restoration has only now revealed the extraordinary original colours, which had been heavily painted over in the 19th century, when the emerald green and iridescent pinks and oranges were not in fashion.
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A Lady with a Unicorn
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The painting earlier was attributed to Perugino, Ridolfo Ghirlandaio, Granacci. At the time (in 1928) of the identification of the artist as Raphael, the painting had been heavily painted over to represent a St Catherine. After careful cleaning, the perfect geometry and detachment of this courtly figure were revealed, although her identity is not known. Present day critics attribute the work to Raphael, referring it to 1505 and to the Florentine environment. It can, in fact, be inserted among the portraits of that period, for it represents an apex in the artist's stylistic development. The fullness of the well constructed figure is set apart from a vast landscape background.
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Pala di San Cassiano Madonna with the Saints Nicholas of Bari, Anastasia, Ursula and Dominic
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It was at the Neapolitan court of the Anjou Kings that Antonello came into contact with Franco-Flemish art and the new technique of oil painting. With this altarpiece for the Church of San Cassiano in Venice, Antonello introduced oil technique to northern Italy. What is today just a fragment was originally a high, rectangular panel with eight saints painted full length in a church interior on either side of the Madonna and grouped in a Santa Conversazione. The subtly applied colours better rendered the image of material substance. The Pala of San Cassiano was admired not only by Antonellos contemporaries; its lasting influence on Venetian painting extended from Bellini all the way to Titian.
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Tomb of Doge Antonio Venier's wife, Agnese (d.1410), and daughter, Ursula (d.1411), and granddaughter Petronilla de Toco
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Sarcophagus , Virgin & Child, saint, Christ as Man of Sorrows
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Tomb of Doge Antonio Venier's wife, Agnese (d.1410), and daughter, Ursula (d.1411), and granddaughter Petronilla de Toco
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General view from front right
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Tomb of Doge Antonio Venier's wife, Agnese (d.1410), and daughter, Ursula (d.1411), and granddaughter Petronilla de Toco
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Total from front center
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Wall Tomb of Doge Tommaso Mocenigo (d. 1423)
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Recumbent doge beneath canopy, sarcophagus with classical commander & virtues
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Wall Tomb of Doge Tommaso Mocenigo (d. 1423)
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Pinnacle with lions, figure of St. Thomas at apex, saints in niches
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Tomb of Doge Antonio Venier (d. 1400) with entrance to Chapel of the Rosary and modern statue of Admiral Sebastiano Venier, hero of Battle of Lepanto
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Elaborate sarcophagus with virtues
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Tomb of Doge Antonio Venier (d. 1400) with entrance to Chapel of the Rosary and modern statue of Admiral Sebastiano Venier, hero of Battle of Lepanto
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Recumbent doge, Madonna and Child, saints, elaborate sarcophagus
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Tomb of Doge Antonio Venier (d. 1400) with entrance to Chapel of the Rosary and modern statue of Admiral Sebastiano Venier, hero of Battle of Lepanto
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General view from front center
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Polychrome Monument to Senator Giambattista Bonzio (d. 1508)
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The arch w sarcophagus & recumbent senator, virtues, polychrome architecture
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Tomb of Doge Pasquale Malipiero (d.1462)
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Recumbent doge, classical sarcophagus supported by griffins, eagle's wings and shell
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Tomb of Doge Pasquale Malipiero (d.1462)
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Upper register, entablature, lunette with Christ supported by two angels, allegories of virtues
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Mary Magdalen Altar: Mary Magdalen at center, St. Philip at left, St. Andrew at right
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St. Andrew, from front right
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Mary Magdalen Altar: Mary Magdalen at center, St. Philip at left, St. Andrew at right
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St. Philip and Mary Magdalen, from front right
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Mary Magdalen Altar: Mary Magdalen at center, St. Philip at left, St. Andrew at right
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Overall view of altar with figures
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Mary Magdalen Altar: Mary Magdalen at center, St. Philip at left, St. Andrew at right
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Closer view of altar with God the Father above
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Tomb of Doge Niccolo Marchello (d. 1474)
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Female virtue, architectural detail at left, from below left front
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Tomb of Doge Niccolo Marchello (d. 1474)
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Recumbent doge, votive relief of doge presented to Madonna and Child
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Tomb of Doge Niccolo Marchello (d. 1474)
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Female virtue, classical architecture, foot of sarcophagus, from front center
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Tomb of Doge Niccolo Marchello (d. 1474)
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Central portion of triumphal arch with sarcophagus, recumbent doge, lunette relief w presentation of doge to Madonna and Child
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Tomb of Doge Andrea Vendramin (d. 1478), designed before 1492
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Close detail of left winged genius of the inscription
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Tomb of Doge Andrea Vendramin (d. 1478), designed before 1492
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Classical female virtues of the sarcophagus
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Tomb of Doge Andrea Vendramin (d. 1478), designed before 1492
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Base at left with escutcheron bearer, putti, winged genius
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Tomb of Doge Andrea Vendramin (d. 1478), designed before 1492
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Base at right with various classical motifs
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Tomb of Doge Andrea Vendramin (d. 1478), designed before 1492
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General raking view showing depth of architecture
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Tomb of Doge Andrea Vendramin (d. 1478), designed before 1492
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Half-length of military captain at right, from front right
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Tomb of Doge Andrea Vendramin (d. 1478), designed before 1492
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Right side of triumphal arch with Virgin annunciate, entablature, composite capitals, classical tondo
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Tomb of Doge Andrea Vendramin (d. 1478), designed before 1492
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Classical female virtues of the sarcophagus, from front center
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Tomb of Doge Andrea Vendramin (d. 1478), designed before 1492
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Lunette of triumphal arch with St. Andrew presenting Doge to Madonna and Child
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Tomb of Doge Andrea Vendramin (d. 1478), designed before 1492
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Recumbent doge, supporting eagle, attendants, female virtues below
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Tomb of Doge Andrea Vendramin (d. 1478), designed before 1492
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Military captain at left (repl. Adam in original composition)
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Tomb of Doge Andrea Vendramin (d. 1478), designed before 1492
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Draped female allegory at far left
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Tomb of Doge Andrea Vendramin (d. 1478), designed before 1492
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Military captain at right (repl. Eve in original composition)
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Tomb of Doge Andrea Vendramin (d. 1478), designed before 1492
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Central part with recumbent doge, attendant figures, sarcophagus with classical draped women, lengthy inscription
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Tomb of Doge Pietro Mocenigo (d. 1476)
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Ancillary figure of Julius Caesar type and relief of Hercules and the Hydra with relief
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Tomb of Doge Pietro Mocenigo (d. 1476)
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Three Marys and angel at Christ's tomb, architectural relief; from below, right front
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Tomb of Doge Pietro Mocenigo (d. 1476)
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Doge, escutcheon and sword bearers, relief on the tomb; from below, front right
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Tomb of Doge Pietro Mocenigo (d. 1476)
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2 ancillary figures at left, escutcheon bearer, architectural ornament; from below, front right
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Tomb of Doge Pietro Mocenigo (d. 1476)
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E male bearers of tomb, illusionistic relief on sarcophagus, from front center
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Tomb of Doge Pietro Mocenigo (d. 1476)
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Pilaster decoration, ancillary figure of Julius Caesar type at right, from left front
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Tomb of Doge Pietro Mocenigo (d. 1476)
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Doge Mocenigo, escutcheon bearer, decorative relief on tomb, from front center
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Tomb of Doge Pietro Mocenigo (d. 1476)
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Upper register with risen Christ, relief of three Marys, entablature, arch
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Tomb of Doge Pietro Mocenigo (d. 1476)
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Central arch with doge standing on sarcophagus, 2 youthful escutcheon bearers, 3 men supporting tomb, from front center
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Tomb of Lorenzo de'Medici, Duke of Urbino (1492-1519)
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Detail: figure of dawn: close-up of head
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Tomb of Lorenzo de'Medici, Duke of Urbino (1492-1519)
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Detail: figure of dawn: head and torso from right
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Tomb of Lorenzo de'Medici, Duke of Urbino (1492-1519)
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Detail: figure of dawn: head and torso from the left
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Tomb of Lorenzo de'Medici, Duke of Urbino (1492-1519)
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Detail: figure of dusk: head and torso from right
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Tomb of Lorenzo de'Medici, Duke of Urbino (1492-1519)
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Close view of seated figure of Lorenzo from front left
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Bust of Cosimo I de'Medici, above door to Opera del Duomo Museum, Florence
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Detail from front left
