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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Roman Aqueduct, Reign of Trajan
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Raking view of lower portion, approaching the city from the E
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Roses and Anemones (detail) Still Life: Japanese Vase with Roses and Anemones
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Throughout June, Vincent remained in good spirits and was remarkably productive, painting some of his best known works.
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Rucellai Madonna (detail)
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The painting has been the subject of much controversy among critics. The design of the frame decorated with roundels, the three pairs of angels flanking the throne and the sweeping gesture of the Child's blessing hand, show undeniable similarities to Cimabue's Maest
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Rucellai Madonna (detail)
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The sweeping gesture of the Child's blessing hand shows undeniable similarity to Cimabue's Maesta
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Rucellai Madonna (detail)
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The picture's name derives from the Rucellai Chapel of Santa Maria Novella where it remained, after being moved to several different places inside the church, from 1591 to 1937, the year of the Giotto exhibition. It was then transferred to the Uffizi. The panel was commissioned in 1285. The detail shows the angel at lower right. The iconographical interpretation is new in that the angels holding up the throne no longer form the crowning part of a solemn and magnificent background but are all looking towards the Virgin in attitudes of intense emotional participation.
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Sacred Allegory
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The meaning of the representation of the painting is an unresolved question. According to the various interpretations the painting would be seen respectively as: (1) the pictorial representation of a French allegorical poem of the 14th century; (2) a Sacred Conversation; (3) a complex allegorical representation of God's four daughters (Mercy, Justice, Peace, Charity); (4) the vision of Paradise; (5) a meditation on incarnation.In the past the painting was for long attributed to Giorgione owing to the warm diffusion of the light, the subtle but total naturalism, and the air drenched with golden color.
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Sacred Allegory (detail)
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The scheme used by Bellini was still the traditional one, planned according to a rational and controlled construction of the whole composition, although signs of the imminent new landscapist vision of the 16th ventury can be discerned.The picture is, however, justly one of the most famous of the master's paintings, inspired, in the already complete tonal unity of the color, by a spirit of profound and visionary contemplation.
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Sacred Allegory (detail)
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Figures at left This picture is thought to be commissioned by Isabella d'Este to Giambellino around 1485 or 1504, but dating is uncertain as well as the iconography. The subject is a sacred allegory, as pointed out by the Cross on the right and by figures: among them are probably the Virgin, seated on the left, and some Saints. Many interpretations of this scene have been proposed: a symbolic representing of the Garden of Paradise, an allegory of Mercy or Justice, a 'sacra conversazione'. The perfect armory of the composition, with tonal values and light effects, overcomes anyway the peculiar iconography of this famous Bellini's masterwork.
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Saint Peter's Basilica, Façade
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Overall View w. enframing Colonnade, Obelisk and Michelangelo's Dome (1999, cleaned and restored)
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Salisbury Cathedral
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Tower, S Transpet, E end and Trinity Chapel (formerly Lady Chapel), from E
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Salisbury Cathedral
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Closer view of Trinity Chapel: columns, vaulting & stained glass, from southwest
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Salisbury Cathedral
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Closer view: Tower, Chapter House, S Transept, flying buttresses, and quire, from south-southeast
