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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Markets of Trajan
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View northeast from Basilica Ulpia (1998). Medieval Torre della Milizie (tower) in background, 1227-41
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Marriage Feast at Cana
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Close-up: Oriental potentate, lady picking her teeth, table still-life
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Mme. Mette Gauguin Seated in an Armchair (detail) Madame Mette Gauguin in Evening Dress
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Gauguin's break with the Impressionists came when he painted "Vision after the Sermon," where he tried to depict the inner feelings of his subjects. This painting also marked the start of a new painting style that came to be known as "Symbolism." Although this period had been highly productive for Gauguin, he was deeply depressed and in 1891 abandoned his family to seek an idyllic life in the South Pacific Islands.
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Mme. Mette Gauguin Seated in an Armchair Madame Mette Gauguin in Evening Dress
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Gauguin's break with the Impressionists came when he painted "Vision after the Sermon," where he tried to depict the inner feelings of his subjects. This painting also marked the start of a new painting style that came to be known as "Symbolism." Although this period had been highly productive for Gauguin, he was deeply depressed and in 1891 abandoned his family to seek an idyllic life in the South Pacific Islands.
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Mont St. Victoire, Provence
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It is marvelous how all seems to flicker in changing colors from point to point, while out of this vast restless motion emerges a solid world of endless expanse, rising and settling. The great depth is built up in broad layers intricately fitted and interlocked, without an apparent constructive scheme. Towards us these layers become more and more diagonal; the diverging lines in the foreground seem a vague reflection of the mountain's form.
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Mont St. Victoire, Provence Mont Sainte-Victoire
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The great depth is built up in broad layers intricately fitted and interlocked, without an apparent constructive scheme. Towards us these layers become more and more diagonal; the diverging lines in the foreground seem a vague reflection of the mountain's form. These diagonals are not perspective lines leading to the peak, but, conduct us far to the side where the mountain slope begins; they are prolonged in a limb hanging from the tree. It is this contrast of movements, of the marginal and centered, of symmetry and unbalance, that gives the immense aspect of drama to the scene. Yet the painting is a deep harmony, built with a wonderful finesse.
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Monumental Portrait Head of Constantine (and other remains of full-length sculpture)
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Head and arm from front right
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Morning Toilet Combing the Hair
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This important work depicts one of the artist's favourite subjects in his later years. It is based on several drawings and an earlier pastel. The bold treatment of the subject and limited range of color are typical of Degas's works of this period.
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Morning Toilet (detail) Combing the Hair
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This important work depicts one of the artist's favourite subjects in his later years. It is based on several drawings and an earlier pastel. The bold treatment of the subject and limited range of color are typical of Degas's works of this period.
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Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, A
Senenmut (Architect)
Elevated view from east-northeast of ramps & terraces of Hatshepsut's Temple in its dramatic setting
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Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, B
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Elevated view from north-northeast of ramps & terraces
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Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, Temple Detail
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Colonnades in the front of the temple with 'Proto-Doric' columns
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Mosque-Madrasa of Sultan Hassan. Exterior of Hassan Mosque from East, with Minarets of Rifa'i Mosque at right
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Mihrab of the Sanctuary Liwan (interior) of Sultan Hassan Mosque
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Motherhood at the Window (detail)
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Maurice Denis had nine children with his two successive wives. His life was the exaltation of the Christian family. From the birth of his first child in 1894, he does not cease painting motherhood.. These works testify to the roots of his happiness in Brittany where it spendshis holidays. The members of his family are for the painter the actors of scenes religious or mythological which he translates.
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Motif from Arles
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In 1874 he saw the first Impressionist exhibition, which completely entranced him and confirmed his desire to become a painter. He spent some 17,000 francs on works by Manet, Monet, Sisley, Pissarro, Renoir and Guillaumin. Pissarro took a special interest in his attempts at painting, emphasizing that he should `look for the nature that suits your temperament', and in 1876 Gauguin had a landscape in the style of Pissarro accepted at the Salon.
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Motif from Arles (detail)
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In 1874 he saw the first Impressionist exhibition, which completely entranced him and confirmed his desire to become a painter. He spent some 17,000 francs on works by Manet, Monet, Sisley, Pissarro, Renoir and Guillaumin. Pissarro took a special interest in his attempts at painting, emphasizing that he should `look for the nature that suits your temperament', and in 1876 Gauguin had a landscape in the style of Pissarro accepted at the Salon.
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Mycenean Acropolis of Tiryns, West Postern Gate External View
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Closer view of fortified entry of west bastion
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Mycenean Acropolis of Tiryns, West Postern Gate Internal View
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View back toward fortified entry through corbeled passage west bastion
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Mycenean Acropolis of Tiryns, West Postern Gate Stairs
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View up the stairs from fortified entry of west bastion
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Napoleon Visiting the Plague-Stricken at Jaffa, 1799
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Close-up of Napoleon Touching Pest-Stricken
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Netherlandish Proverbs
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Netherlandish Proverbs, or the Blue Cloak as it is sometimes called, includes visual representations of perhaps more than 90 individual proverbs. The precise number of proverbs remains somewhat uncertain because modern scholarly interpretations vary and, in some case, more than one proverb might be assigned to the same component in the painting.
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Netherlandish Proverbs (detail)
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder developed an original style that uniformly holds narrative, or story-telling, meaning. In subject matter he ranged widely, from conventional Biblical scenes and parables of Christ to such mythological portrayals as Landscape with the Fall of Icarus; religious allegories in the style of Hieronymus Bosch; and social satires. Popular in his own day, his works have remained consistently popular.
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Netherlandish Proverbs (detail)
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder developed an original style that uniformly holds narrative, or story-telling, meaning. In subject matter he ranged widely, from conventional Biblical scenes and parables of Christ to such mythological portrayals as Landscape with the Fall of Icarus; religious allegories in the style of Hieronymus Bosch; and social satires. Popular in his own day, his works have remained consistently popular.
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Netherlandish Proverbs (detail)
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder developed an original style that uniformly holds narrative, or story-telling, meaning. In subject matter he ranged widely, from conventional Biblical scenes and parables of Christ to such mythological portrayals as Landscape with the Fall of Icarus; religious allegories in the style of Hieronymus Bosch; and social satires. Popular in his own day, his works have remained consistently popular.
