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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Pauline Bonaparte-Borghese as Venus
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Total figure from left center (showing curved back, drapery)
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Pazzi Chapel (built as a Chapter House)
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Sanctuary detail: frieze, pilaster capital, terracotta medallion of St. John (1998)
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Pazzi Chapel (built as a Chapter House)
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Total from front center in courtyard of Santa Croce (1998)
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Pazzi Chapel (built as a Chapter House)
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View up into dome of the narthex, terracotta by Luca della Robbia (1998)
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Peplos Kore, Bust Detail, A
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Bust detail of kore with her head and chest in frame, slightly left view
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Peplos Kore, Bust Detail, B
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Closer bust detail of kore with her head in frame, slightly left view
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Peplos Kore, Upper Portion
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Upper portion including torso and bust of the statue from a frontal view
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Perseus Trampling Medusa and Exhibiting Her Severed Head
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Full length figure from left lower front
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Piazza S. Trinita
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View of ancient Roman column (fr. Baths of Caracalla) and Justice, medieval Pal. Spini-Feroni (1289)
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Plain Near Auvers (detail)
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In Auvers, Van Gogh choose to paint a large number of landscapes on canvases . A letter to Theo describes the sadness and loneliness he wished these paintings to express, but also his desire to show how 'healthy and heartening' he found the countryside.
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Planers of Parquet Floor (detail) The Floor Scrapers
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Upon his untimely death in 1894 at the age of 46, Gustave Caillebotte willed to the Louvre, paintings on the highest level, by his friends the artists: Edouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cezanne, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, and Berthe Morisot. To its shame The Louvre caved in to the power of the Salon, local artworld politics that brought pressure to bear against the bequest and refused to accept the paintings, thus depriving itself to this day of the single greatest collection of Impressionist paintings in the world. To its credit eventually the Louvre agreed to accept part of the bequest. (Ronnie Landfield)....via Caillebotte's heirs through the intermediary of Auguste Renoir.
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Planers of Parquet Floor The Floor Scrapers
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Upon his untimely death in 1894 at the age of 46, Gustave Caillebotte willed to the Louvre, paintings on the highest level, by his friends the artists: Edouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cezanne, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, and Berthe Morisot. To its shame The Louvre caved in to the power of the Salon, local artworld politics that brought pressure to bear against the bequest and refused to accept the paintings, thus depriving itself to this day of the single greatest collection of Impressionist paintings in the world. To its credit eventually the Louvre agreed to accept part of the bequest. (Ronnie Landfield)....via Caillebotte's heirs through the intermediary of Auguste Renoir.
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Ploughing in Nivernais (detail)
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Bonheurrepresents animals as they really are, as she saw them in the country. Her gift of accurate observation was, however, allied to a certain dryness of style in painting; she often failed to give a perfect sense of atmosphere. On the other hand, the anatomy of her animals is always faultlessly true. There is nothing feminine in her handling; her treatment is always manly and firm. Nivernais was a formerly a province of central France near the city of Nevers.
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Ploughing in the Nivernais Region (detail)
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Bonheur's informed and sympathetic pictures of animal life were remarkably enlightened in approach. They gained her wide popularity, particularly in England and America, where much of her work is to be seen. Bonheur's informed and sympathetic pictures of animal life were remarkably enlightened in approach. They gained her wide popularity, particularly in England and America, where much of her work is to be seen.
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Ploughing in the Nivernais Region (detail)
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Bonheur's informed and sympathetic pictures of animal life were remarkably enlightened in approach. They gained her wide popularity, particularly in England and America, where much of her work is to be seen. Bonheur's informed and sympathetic pictures of animal life were remarkably enlightened in approach. They gained her wide popularity, particularly in England and America, where much of her work is to be seen.
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Poplars on a Hill Poplars at Saint-Remy
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When van Gogh began experiencing prolonged seizures in 1889, he committed himself to an asylum in Saint-Remy. There he sometimes painted the fields and landscape visible through his window. Anxious about the recurrence of his illness, he made even bolder expressions of his feelings of nature. In Poplars at Saint-Remy, each brushstroke is like a broad, thick mosaic tile fitted into place. The trees tilting to the right seem to be walking up the hill with an instability that animates the entire composition.
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Porta della Carta, Doge's Palace
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Close-up of Doge Francesco Foscari, 1885, by L. Ferrari to replace orig. destroyed in 1797 and lion of St. Mark
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Porta della Carta, Doge's Palace
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Detail view above portal with Doge and the lion of St. Mark and window treatment
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Portrait: Dr. Paul Gachet, the Doctor (detail) Portrait of Doctor Gachet
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The Portrait of Doctor Gachet is one of Van Gogh's most famous paintings. It's notable for a number of reasons. It was painted in the last few months of Vincent's life and the subject has been the focus of a great deal of controversy. How competent was Doctor Gachet? What did Vincent mean when he wrote to Theo "First of all, he is sicker than I am, I think, or shall we say just as much"
