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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Deposition from the Cross (detail)
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This is one of Fra Angelico's most profound works. Hushed, respectful, and completely devout, the assembled figures present a scene that equates clarity of form, purity of colour, and rationally conceived proportions with transcendent spirituality. The mode of expression is dignified, rational, and human.
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Deposition from the Cross (detail)
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This is one of Fra Angelico's most profound works. Hushed, respectful, and completely devout, the assembled figures present a scene that equates clarity of form, purity of colour, and rationally conceived proportions with transcendent spirituality. The mode of expression is dignified, rational, and human.
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Deposition from the Cross (detail)
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This is one of Fra Angelico's most profound works. Hushed, respectful, and completely devout, the assembled figures present a scene that equates clarity of form, purity of colour, and rationally conceived proportions with transcendent spirituality. The mode of expression is dignified, rational, and human.
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Dieppe, Bassin Duquesne
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Pissarro was the only Impressionist painter who participated in all eight of the group's exhibitions. His kindness, warmth, wisdom, and encouraging words cast him in a fatherly role to struggling younger artists
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Dieppe, Bassin Duquesne
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Pissarro's impressionism has much of the sobriety of Sisley's but less reflective. he was the oldest member of the group, being two years older even than Edouard Manet. Everyone who knew Pissarro seems to have left some account of him, and by all these accounts his life and his character were a catalog of virtues - loyalty to his friends, wisdom as the father of a large family, courage in adversity, and patience, tolerance, honesty, and industry in all circumstances.
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Dionysiac Mystery Frieze. Room 5 of Villa of the Mysteries
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The Dionysiac, or Bacchic, societies flourished in the whole empire
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Doge's Palace (left) and Libreria Vecchia (right)
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Overall view of both palaces toward Lagoon from Terrace of Duomo
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Dome of Florence Cathedral
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Detail of decoration & buttress of half-dome seen from "Giotto's Tower"
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Don Quixote and the Dead Mule (detail) Don Quixote, Sancho Pansa and the Dead Mule
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This work, one of many versions of the subject that Daumier painted after 1864, illustrates a passage from Don Quixote, the famous epic novel by Cervantes (1547
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Don Quixote and the Dead Mule (detail) Don Quixote, Sancho Pansa and the Dead Mule
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Daumier experimented with oils including several on the theme of Don Quixote, although many of his pictures remained unfinished, producing loosely handled, thickly impasto works of strong chiaroscuro.
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Don Quixote and the Dead Mule Don Quixote, Sancho Pansa and the Dead Mule
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Daumier did a numberof paintings featuring Don Quixote as a larger-than-life hero. His technique was remarkably broad and free.
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Doric Temple at Sounion
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Close detail of the Portico, with S and N colonnades visible, view from E
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Dr. Gachet's Daughter in Garden at Auvers-sur-Oise
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In pure, expressive colors the lovely scene is of Marguerite Gachet in her father's garden. Dr. Gauchet treated the painter during his nervous breakdown.
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Dr. Gachet's Daughter in Garden at Auvers-sur-Oise (detail)
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In pure, expressive colors the lovely scene is of Marguerite Gachet in her father's garden. Dr. Gauchet treated the painter during his nervous breakdown.
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Dr. Gachet's Garden (detail) Dr. Gachet's Garden at Auvers-sur-Oise
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In May 1890 Vincent visited Theo and his family in Paris and then settled in Auvers-sur-Oise, near Paris. The town was chosen because Dr. Gachet, himself a hobby painter and friend of the Impressionists, was living there, he agreed to take care of Vincent. In Auvers van Gogh painted more than 80 pictures. During these last weeks of his life it was only due to his work that he could forget about his illness, and he painted as if possessed.
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Dr. Gachet's Garden Dr. Gachet's Garden at Auvers-sur-Oise
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In May 1890 Vincent visited Theo and his family in Paris and then settled in Auvers-sur-Oise, near Paris. The town was chosen because Dr. Gachet, himself a hobby painter and friend of the Impressionists, was living there, he agreed to take care of Vincent. In Auvers van Gogh painted more than 80 pictures. During these last weeks of his life it was only due to his work that he could forget about his illness, and he painted as if possessed.
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Duke and Duchess of Urbino Reverse: Triumphal Procession Allegorical Triumph of Federico da Mantefeltro and Portrait of Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino
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On the front the two panels show profile portraits of Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino, and his wife, Battista Sforza. The reverse shows allegorical representations of their virtues. During the 1460s the artist worked for the Duke of Urbino, for whom he executed the Flagellation of Christ and the Senigallia Madonna, the wonderful twin portrait of the Duke and his wife Battista Sforza (Florence, Uffizi), the Nativity, and above all the incomparable Pala Montefeltro, which by some critics is considered to be his best work, which epitomizes the noblest aspirations of Early Renaissance.
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Dutch Landscape Viewed from the Dunes
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Koninck's development had stopped in the middle of the seventeenth century, he would be remembered as a talented Rembrandt follower. But from about 1649-50 until around 1665 he created a series of very large panoramic views in a distinctive personal style. They are closely related to the classical phase of Dutch landscape painting and are amongst the great glories of Dutch art.
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Dutch Landscape Viewed from the Dunes (detail)
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Koninck's development had stopped in the middle of the seventeenth century, he would be remembered as a talented Rembrandt follower. But from about 1649-50 until around 1665 he created a series of very large panoramic views in a distinctive personal style. They are closely related to the classical phase of Dutch landscape painting and are amongst the great glories of Dutch art.
