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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View of the Domaine Saint-Joseph La Colline des Pauvre
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Despite the many areas of canvas left bare, this is one of the few paintings C
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View of the valley with Sanctuary of Athena Pronaia and the Tholos (ca. 380 BC)
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Telephoto view, seen from below the Museum
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Violinist at the Window (detail) Self-Portrait
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Dou popularized the the compositional device of a figure engaged at some occupation at a window. Created with characteristic attention to detail and interest in illusion, these small, and refined images incorporate symbolic elements reflecting the complexity of life's moral and ethical dilemmas. They reflect a level of craftsmanship that was the measure against which many of Dou's contemporaries were judged.Dou was Rembrandt's first student and was later founder of the school of "fijnschilders" or "fine painters" in Leiden.
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Violinist at the Window Self-Portrait
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Dou popularized the the compositional device of a figure engaged at some occupation at a window. Created with characteristic attention to detail and interest in illusion, these small, and refined images incorporate symbolic elements reflecting the complexity of life's moral and ethical dilemmas. They reflect a level of craftsmanship that was the measure against which many of Dou's contemporaries were judged. Dou was Rembrandt's first student and was later founder of the school of "fijnschilders" or "fine painters" in Leiden.
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Votiv Relief representing Chorus of Nymphs & Graces with Telonnesos
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Full length front center
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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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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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Winged Bulls. From entrance to Palace of King Sargon II at Khorsabad
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Close det: bearded head of winged bull, from right front
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Winged Bulls. From entrance to Palace of King Sargon II at Khorsabad
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Total entrance composition
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Winged Bulls. From entrance to Palace of King Sargon II at Khorsabad
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Close det: cuneiform inscription between the bull's legs
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Winged Bulls. From entrance to Palace of King Sargon II at Khorsabad
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Total of left bull from front
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Winged Bulls. From entrance to Palace of King Sargon II at Khorsabad
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Det: cuneiform inscription between the bull's legs
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Winged Bulls. From entrance to Palace of King Sargon II at Khorsabad
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Det: head and body from right front
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Winged Bulls. From entrance to Palace of King Sargon II at Khorsabad
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Bearded head of winged bull, from front right
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Winter Landscape with Houses Effect of Snow
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Gaugins desire to return to untouched natural surroundings first took him to Brittany, looking for the
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Wisdom Victorious Over the Vices
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Close-up of Minerva, showing feathers, armor, drapery, brushwork
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Woman with a Coffeepot
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The intelligence and the eye of the painter were able to strip away that which was diffuse and superimposed in the view of a given mass, in order to analyze its constituent elements. He chose to rediscover a more substantial reality of simple forms behind the glimmering veil of appearances, an almost Platonic conception of the Mediterranean intellect. "Everything in Nature is modeled after the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint from these simple figures". Cezanne.
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Woman with a Coffeepot
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The intelligence and the eye of the painter were able to strip away that which was diffuse and superimposed in the view of a given mass, in order to analyze its constituent elements. He chose to rediscover a more substantial reality of simple forms behind the glimmering veil of appearances, an almost Platonic conception of the Mediterranean intellect. "Everything in Nature is modeled after the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint from these simple figures". Cezanne.
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Woman with a Coffee pot
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The intelligence and the eye of the painter were able to strip away that which was diffuse and superimposed in the view of a given mass, in order to analyze its constituent elements. He chose to rediscover a more substantial reality of simple forms behind the glimmering veil of appearances, an almost Platonic conception of the Mediterranean intellect. "Everything in Nature is modeled after the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint from these simple figures". Cezanne.
