Ghent Altarpiece (Open), Adoration of the Mystic Lamb
Art History, 4th ed., Upper Saddle River, N. J.: Pearson Education, 2010 (9780205800377)
Ghent Altarpiece (Closed), Annunciation With Donors
Virgin and Child (Right Wing), Melun Diptych
Etienne Chevalier and St. Stephen (Left Wing), Melun Diptych
From an altarpiece commissioned by the Crossbowmens Guild, Louvain, Belgium.
Detail of Mirror and Signature in a Double Portrait of a Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife
Detail, Flemish City, Merode Altarpiece (Triptych of the Annunciation)
Merode Altarpiece (Triptych of the Annunciation)
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint Annunciation
Mary at Her Devotions, Hours of Mary of Burgundy
January, the Duke of Berry at Table. Tres Riches Heures
February, Life in the Country. Tres Riches Heures
From Giovanni Boccaccios De Claris Mulieribus (Concerning Famous Women).
Well of Moses, detail of Moses and David
The sculptures original details included metal used for buckles and even eyeglasses. It was also painted: Moses wore a gold mantle with a blue lining over a red tunic
Davids gold mantle had a painted lining of ermine, and his blue tunic was covered with gold stars and wide bands of ornament.
Annunciation, Visitation, Presentation in the Temple, and Flight Into Egypt (Right View)
Exterior of the wings of the Altarpiece of the Chartreuse de Champmol.
Annunciation, Visitation, Presentation in the Temple, and Flight Into Egypt (Left View)
Altar and Triptych Altarpiece (Line Drawing)
Map of Fifteenth-Century Northern Europe
The dukes of Burgundywhose territory included much of present-day Belgium and Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and eastern Francebecame the cultural and political leaders of western Europe. Their major cities of Bruges (Belgium) and Dijon (France) were centers of art and industry as well as politics.
Double Portrait of a Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife
Cupids Making Perfume, Wall Painting in the House of the Vettii
Marriage at Cana, Raising of Lazarus, Ressurection, and Lamentation, North Wall, Arena Chapel
West facade. Cathedral rebuilt after a fire in 1194
Ixion Room Frescoes, House of the Vettii
From the Good Samaritan Window, nave aisle.
West portal, Cathedral (originally abbey church) of Saint-Lazare. Autun, Burgundy, France.
Although a few large political entities began to emerge in places like England and Normandy, Burgundy, and Leon/Castile, Europe remained a land of small economic entities. Pilgrimages and crusades acted as unifying international forces.
Page with St. Matthew the Evangelist, Coronation Gospels
Illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages
Gospel of Matthew. Tradition holds that this Gospel book was buried with Charlemagne in 814, and that in the year 1000 Emperor Otto III removed it from his tomb. Its title derives from its use in the coronation ceremonies of later German emperors.
From Benin. This belongs to a small group of rare Early Period sculptures called rolled-collar heads that are distinguished by the rolled collar that serves as a firm base for the exquisitely rendered head.
Emperor Justinian, Bishop Maximianus, and attendants
Justinian I, Emperor of the East, 483?-565
Mosaic from the north wall of the apse, San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy. As head of state, the haloed Justinian wears a huge jeweled crown and a purple cloak
he carries a large golden paten (plate for Eucharistic bread) that he is donating to San Vitale for the celebration of the Eucharist. Bishop Maximianus at his left holds a jeweled cross and another churchman holds a jewel-covered book. Government officials stand at Justinians right, followed by barbarian mercenary soldiers, one of whom wears a neck torc, another a Classical cameo cloak clasp.
The Good Shepherd, Orants, and the Story of Jonah
Plan, Anu Ziggurat and White Temple, Uruk
Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D.
Detail of a relief on the south side of the Ara Pacis. The bored but well-behaved youngster pulling at Agrippas robeand being restrained gently by the hand of the man behind himis probably Agrippas son Gaius Caesar. The heavily swathed woman next to Agrippa on the right may be Augustus wife, Livia, followed by Tiberius, who would become the next emperor. Behind Tiberius could be Antonia, the niece of Augustus, looking back at her husband, Drusus, Livias younger son. She may grasp the hand of Germanicus, one of her younger children. The depiction of children and real women in an official relief was new to the Augustan period and reflects Augustus desire to promote private family life as well as to emphasize his potential heirs. The figures in this frieze represent members of Augustus extended family, and scholars have proposed some specific identifications. The middle-aged man with the shrouded head at the far left may be Marcus Agrippa, who would have been Augustus successor had he not predeceased him in 12 ce.
From the Sanctuary of the Great Gods, Samothrace. The wind-whipped costume and raised wings of this Victory indicate that she has just alighted on the prow of the stone ship that formed the original base of the statue. The work probably commemorated an important naval victory, perhaps the Rhodian triumph over the Seleucid king Antiochus III in 190 bce. The Nike (lacking its head and arms) and a fragment of its stone ship base were discovered in the ruins of the Sanctuary of the Great Gods by a French explorer in 1863 (additional fragments were discovered later). Soon after, the sculpture entered the collection of the Louvre Museum in Paris.
Fragment of relief decoration from the parapet (now destroyed), Temple of Athena Nike, Acropolis, Athens.
Rogers Fund, 1914 (14.130.14). From the Dipylon Cemetery, Athens.
Plan of Stonehenge and Its Surrounding Settlements
This figure has been largely reconstructed from original fragments excavated at Knossos. The head, for instance, is a modern replacement, as is much of the left arm. Whereas the cat that sits on that modern head is authentic, it was not discovered in the same place as the figure. In fact, since there was no head on the snake in the figures right hand, we are not even sure she was holding one.
Nefertiti, Queen of Egypt, 14th cent. B.C.
From Akhenaten (modern Tell el-Amarna), Egyptian Museum 21300
From Akhenaten (present-day Tell el-Amarna), Egypt
Xerxes I, King of Persia, 519-465 or 4 B.C.
Detail of a relief from the stairway leading to the Apadana (ceremonial complex), Persepolis, Iran.
Tomb Interior With Corbeling and Engraved Stones, Negrange
Interior, Abbey church of St. Michael, Hildesheim
Rhythmic study for preliminary course taught by Johannes Itten
Bauhaus 1919-1933 : workshops for modernity, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2009 (9780870707582)
Street of Tombs near Nocera Gate, Pompeii
Muhammads ascent into heaven, from Nizamis Khamsa (Five Poems)
Participants in the International Congress of Constructivists and Dadaists, Weimar, 1922
Top row, left to right: Lucia Moholy-Nagy, Alfred Kemeny, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. Second row from the top: Lotte Burchartz, El Lissitzky, Cornelius van Eesteren, Bernhard Strutzkopf. Third Row: Max Burhartz (with child), Harry Scheibe, Theo van Doesburg, Hans Vogel, Peter Rohl. Front Row, standing: Alexa Rohl, Nelly van Doesburg, Tristan Tzara, Nini Smit, Hans Arp. Foreground, left: Werner Graeff. On ground: Hans Richter.
Fourth Style decorations in the House of the Vettii
From small occus off the atrium. The main picture shows Cyparissus and his stag, and on the opposite wall, Danae.
Pompeii and Herculaneum: the living cities of the dead, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1975 (0810904187)
Sacellum, House of Loreius Tiburtinus, Pompeii
On one wall is a portrait of priest of Isis.
Attic story with cast-iron roof framework
The cast-iron roof framework represents a later advance
its invention has been credited to J. B. Papworth in 1821.
Space, Time, and Architecture, 5th, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1967
Rome, the center of power, 500 B.C. to A.D. 200, New York: George Braziller, 1970 (080760559X)
Section Drawing from a letter to Darwin Martin regarding a Rosenwald School Project at the Hampton Institute
The heavy wooden roof trusses left the whole center line of the attic clear for the long spinning machines.
Letter to Darwin Martin regarding a Rosenwald School Project at the Hampton Institute
Women weavers on the stairway of the Bauhaus, Dessau
Charles river front, with projecting loung and dining hall.
The Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, Harvard University
The studio for three-dimensional studies project forward. The ramp is visible in the distance, below it on the right.
Gropius' own house in Lincoln, this was the first modern house to be built in the vicinity of Boston.
Plan, The Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, Harvard University
Third floor plan showing penetration of the ramp: above, Quincy Street
Court elevation, Fabrik Werkbund exhibition
Glass-walled offices and the covered terrace on the roof.
Two-story living room. Wright uses the higher volume to mold the space of the living room from the ground up through the entire height to the inner planes of the roof.
Plan of one story with undivided offices. In most of these buildings large portions of every floor were left without partitions, so they could be subdivided later to suit the tenants.
The perforated interior space is typical of French buildings.
American buildings and their architects: Technology and the Picturesque, Garden City, N.Y: Anchor Books, 1980 (0385081790)
Iron bridges in the interior. The creative fantasy of the nineteenth century can be felt in this combination of glass skylights, aerial bridges in iron, slim iron columns, and the curious ornamental shapes so characteristic of the period.
The first building ever designed or executed with a metal skeleton -- cast iron columns and beams -- enclosed in the outer masonry walls like the works of a watch in its case.