150,000 Botanical and Animal Illustrations Available for Free Download from Biodiversity Heritage Library. Les collections en ligne des musées de la Ville de Paris. Books with Full-Text Online. The Art Institute of Chicago. Search Results: "" - Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (Library of Congress) 100,000 Free Art History Texts Now Available Online Thanks to the Getty Research Portal. “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library,” Jorge Luis Borges famously wrote.
Were he alive today, he might well regard the internet as becoming more paradisiacal all the time, at least in the sense that it keeps not just generating new texts, but absorbing existing ones and making them available free to readers. And while his well-known story “The Library of Babel” envisions a magical or extremely high-tech library containing all possible texts (which the internet has started to make a reality), recent additions to the vast library of the internet have done him one better by incorporating not just pages of letters, but intricately designed and lavishly illustrated art texts as well. Take the Getty Research Portal, which has just, for its fourth anniversary, unveiled a new design and a total volume count surpassing 100,000. Collections - Google Cultural Institute. Search Results: "" - Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (Library of Congress) Three Women Painters of the Dutch Golden Age.
Vase of Tulips, Rose, and Other Flowers with InsectsMaria van Oosterwijck, 1670 The Dutch Golden Age, roughly the seventeenth century, was a time when many aspects of Dutch life and culture were the most acclaimed in the world.
Art was one of those areas, particularly painting. Some aspects of Dutch painting during this time were similar to Baroque art in other parts of Europe, but the Dutch were leaders in the areas of still-life, genre painting, and portraiture. Some of the most well-known painters during this time were Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Frans Hals, but there were three women who were significant, well-known and popular during their time: Judith Jans Leyster (1609 – 1660), Maria van Oosterwijck (1630 – 1693), and Rachel Ruysch (1664 – 1750).
Judith Jans Leyster Judith Leyster was primarily a painter of genre works. Wall of Birds. Search USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection. Search USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection Limit your search Scientific Name Common Name Country You searched for:
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This explains the prevalence of scenes from Christ's life in European art, and yet there is more to the story. In a society that laid great emphasis on religion and required religious images, artists performed an indispensable service and had to work within the structure of tradition. It is often assumed that such conditions would stifle creativity, but thoughtful observation shows that this is not so. The most ambitious illustrations of Christ's life show full-blown inventiveness, and even lesser examples demonstrate the fruitful interaction of the artist's imagination and society's requirements. This essay concentrates on Italian painting, but much of what follows is true of other European traditions as well. Pagan Period. Chapter III The Pagan Period: Burma's Classic Age - 11th To 14th Centuries Part 4 1.
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PHILADELPHIA — Casual observers might suppose that mega-galleries like Larry Gagosian’s and David Zwirner’s are a distinctively 21st-century phenomenon.
But the gallery of Paul Durand-Ruel, the Paris dealer who put Impressionism on the international map, preceded them by more than a century and a half. The Caves of Dunhuang - The New York Times > Arts > Slide Show > Slide 1 of 13. Sand is implacable here in far western China.
It blows and shifts and eats away at everything, erasing boundaries, scouring graves, leaving farmers in despair. Review: ‘Van Gogh: Irises and Roses,’ Sheds Light on a Disappearing Red Hue. Art is long, but color can be brief.
That’s the message conveyed by “Van Gogh: Irises and Roses,” a small bouquet of paintings by the beloved Dutch artist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The show is inspiring in several ways, foremost for reuniting four biggish floral still lifes the artist made almost exactly 125 years ago that have not all been together since. Review: ‘Discovering Japanese Art’ Presents Collections at the Met. Photo Most Frank Lloyd Wright fans know that he was influenced by Japanese aesthetics. Fewer are aware that during the first quarter of the 20th century that American architect pursued a lucrative side career as a dealer in Japanese prints. When he was working on designs for the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Wright said that print vendors lined up outside his office door.
This business helped save his architectural practice during its less solvent periods. Years later he recalled that sales of Japanese prints “practically built Taliesin I and II.” Review: ‘Sultans of Deccan India,’ Unearthly Treasures of a Golden Age, at the Met. Photo Human beings may excel at making things, but destroying them is equally a specialty. The second skill has given the history of art many tantalizing mysteries, remnants of cultures whose achievement is unmistakable yet fragmentary, limited by extensive losses resulting from accident, neglect or war.
One such mystery is examined in “Sultans of Deccan India, 1500-1700: Opulence and Fantasy,” a landmark exhibition at the . This beautiful, sometimes heart-rending show is the most comprehensive yet to focus on the cosmopolitan Muslim kingdoms that ruled the verdant Deccan Plateau of south-central India for nearly two centuries, fostering a turbulent golden age. Book titles with full text online.
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