Royal Portal, West Facade, Chartres Cathedral
Art History, 4th ed., Upper Saddle River, N. J.: Pearson Education, 2010 (9780205800377)
crossing spire, 19th - Century replacement
Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Gift of Horace Havemeyer, 1929 (29.160.26). In the right background of Degass picture sit two well-dressed, middle-aged men, who enjoy their intimacy with the dancers at informal rehearsal. Because ballerinas generally came from lower- class families and exhibited their scantily clad bodies in publicsomething prohibited for respectable bourgeois womenthey were widely assumed to be sexually available, and they often attracted the attentions of wealthy men willing to support them in exchange for sexual favors. Thus several of Degass ballet pictures also include one or more of the dancers mothers, who would accompany their daughters to rehearsals and performances in order to safeguard their virtue.
Wooded Landscape at LHermitage, Pontoise
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Nicholas S. Pickard.
In 1793, David was elected a deputy to the National Convention and was named propaganda minister and director of public festivals. Because he supported Robespierre and the Reign of Terror, he was twice imprisoned after its demise in 1794, albeit under lenient conditions that allowed him to continue painting.
from Buffalo News newspaper, February 18, 1996
Muqarnas Dome, Hall of the Abencerrajes, Palace of the Lions, Alhambra
Patrician Carrying Portrait Busts of Two Ancestors (Barberini Togatus)
The head of this standing figure, though ancient Roman in origin, is a later replacement and not original to this statue. The separation of head and body in this work is understandable since in many instances the bodies of full-length portraits were produced in advance, waiting in the sculptors workshop for a patron to commission a head with his or her own likeness that could be attached to it. Presumably the busts carried by this patrician were likewise only blocked out until they could be carved with the faces of the commissioners ancestors. These faces share a striking family resemblance, and the stylistic difference reproduced in the two distinct bust formats reveals that these men lived in successive generations. They could be the father and grandfather of the man who carries them.
from Room 5 of West House, Akrotiri, Thera
A luminous land : artists discover Greece, Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, c1998 (089236467X)
Aerial View from Southwest, Church of Sant' Apollinare in Classe, Ravenna
Key Monuments of the History of Architecture, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc
Plan of the ceremonial center of Teotihuacan
Teotihuacan Site (San Juan Teotihuacan, Mexico)
Nefertiti, Queen of Egypt, 14th cent. B.C.
Detail, Canonicus, Madonna Adored by the Canonicus Van der Paele
Guernica (Spain)--History--Bombardment, 1937
Scrovegni presents Model of Chapel, Detail, Last Judgment, Arena Chapel
Robe, Detail, Madonna Adored by the Canonicus Van der Paele
Madonna Adored by the Canonicus Van der Paele
Detail, Interior, Guggenheim Bilbao Museum
Architecture, Renaissance--Italy--Florence
Florence (Italy)--Buildings, structures, etc.
Baroque-style monastery in Gabrovo, Bulgaria, June 1911
Journey to the east, Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1987 (0262120917)
Red Dots, Detail, Ceiling, Le Combel, Pech Merle
Ceremonial Purification, Sennefer and Meryt, Tomb of Sennefer
Mary Magdalene, detail, Lamentation over the Dead Christ
Deceased Wife under Ished Tree, from the Tomb of Sennefer
Widener Collection (1942.9.57).In the distance on a hilltop, Raphael has painted a scene he knew well from his childhood, the domed church of San Bernardino, two miles outside Urbino. The church contains the tombs of dukes of Urbino, Federico and Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, and their wives. Donato Bramante, whose architecture was key in establishing the High Renaissance style, may have designed the church.
Rouen Cathedral, Harmony in Blue and Gold: Bright Sun
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint Annunciation
Mantiklos Apollo, statuette of a youth dedicated by Mantiklos to Apollo
A Woman Preparing Bread and Butter for a Boy
Interior, Basilica di Sant'Andrea di Mantova
Map of Japan, showing Frank Lloyd Wright's 1905 Journey
Frank Lloyd Wright's fifty views of Japan : the 1905 photoalbum, San Francisco: Pomegranate Artbooks, 1996 (9780764900037)
The plane figure of stage, Diagrams, Noh Theatre
Japanese Noh plays : How to see them, Tokyo: Nogaku-Shorin, 1954
The solid figure of stage, Diagrams, Noh Theatre
Main hall and garden, Kohrakuen, Okayama
Unidentified man and woman on a mountain pass
Main hall, Higashi-Honganji Temple, Nagoya-Betsuin, Nagoya
Detail, Boar Avatar of Vishnu Rescuing the Earth
Bathtub from bathroom, Queen's Megaron, Palace of Minos
Sutra library, Sutra Library, Chion-in Temple, Kyoto
Map of China under Shang and Zhou Dynasties (McKay pg 89)