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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Restaurant 'La Sirene' in Asmiere
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Together with Bernard, Gauguin and Toulouse-Lautrec, he exhibited his works; they also decorated the walls with Japanese colored woodcuts. They called themselves
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Rest during the Flight into Egypt The Adoration of the Magi (detail)
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This is the central scene of the predella on the large altarpiece "Adoration of the Magi".
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Rock Arch West of Etretat (The Manneport) The Manneporte (
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Monet spent most of February 1883 at
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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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Roses and Anemones 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 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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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 Maest
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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.
