Web Gallery of Art
Web Gallery of Art: Michelangelo
The Web Gallery of Art provides an amazing online collection of Michelangelo's (1475-1564) art. Not only can you view high-quality reproductions of his drawings, paintings, sculptures, and architectural commissions, you can also click...
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Olga's Gallery: Titian
Link to images of his most famous paintings and his biography.
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Ibiblio: Web Museum: Simone Martini
This site provides a brief biography of Simone Martini showing examples of his paintings
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Ibiblio: Web Museum: Sandro Botticelli
Very in-depth biography of Sandro Botticelli including images of his works and detailed description of his style of painting.
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Web Exhibits: Pigments Through the Ages: Look Closer: Raphael: Fresco
A fresco painting by Raphael.
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Eternal Egypt: Niches With Frescoes of Birds
Fragments of a cover of two niches in fatimid bath with fresco on stucco. The first niche fresco on stucco depicts two doves facing each other. A second fresco depicts a bird with a leaf in its beak.
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Roman Painting: Frescoes From Campania
Gives detailed descriptions, classifications, and pictures of the various wall frescoes found in the Naples area of Italy during the period of ancient Rome. This includes the city of Pompeii.
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Eternal Egypt: Painted Tablet Depicting a Cross
This Christian fresco shows a painted Latin cross. The background of the cross itself is painted yellow and decorated with red and green squares.
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New York Times: Sacred Paris
Explore Paris' many churches and the architectural and artistic treasures hidden within them. This video presentation offers colorful photos of stained-glass windows, paintings, ceiling frescoes, sculptures, archways, and carvings, and...
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Web Gallery of Art: Decoration of the Stanze in the Palazzi Pontifici
This website provides information on and images of Raphael's frescoes that he painted at the Stanze while in Rome. The images of the frescoes are stunning.
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Web Gallery of Art: Michelangelo Buonarroti
Links to Michelangelo's sculptures, paintings, drawings, and architectural works including the frescoes in the Sistine Chapel.
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Atelier Saint Andre: Byzantine Iconographers
This site reveals the work of a living community of Byzantine iconographers--artists who create relgious paintings for the Eastern Orthodox Church. Features background information on their traditions, aesthetics, and techniques.
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Web Gallery of Art: Piero Di Cosimo
This site provides links to images of some of Piero Di Cosimo's famous works including his frescoes in the Sistine Chapel.
British Library
British Library: Discovering Literature: Experiencing Medieval Literature
This article explains how 'illiterate' individuals encountered literary texts and traditions through textiles, wall paintings, sculptures, and listening to works read aloud in the Middle Ages.
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J. Paul Getty Museum: Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi
A short biography of the artist, engraver, and architect Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi from the Getty Museum's collection. Includes a reproduction of a pen-and-ink landscape by the artist, with an accompanying illustration detail and a...
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Khan Academy: Mission Churches as Theaters of Conversion in New Spain
Mission churches, which followed a similar architectural plan but varied in terms of decoration, are among the earliest examples of colonial architecture. View pictures and read the history of these mission churches, or conventos, in New...
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Web Gallery of Art: Uccello, Paolo
This resource contains several links to works by Paolo Uccello. By clicking on the links, the works can be accessed along with a biography on Uccello himself.
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Web Gallery of Art: Wall Paintings
An image of "Wall paintings", created by Baldassare Peruzzi from 1504-06 (Fresco).
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Web Gallery of Art: Paintings on the Partition
An image of "Paintings on the partition", created by Bernardino Luini from 1522-24 (Fresco).
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Web Gallery of Art: Wall Painting
An image of "Wall painting", created by Karoly Lotz from 1887-91 (Fresco).
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Web Gallery of Art: St Luke Painting the Virgin
An image of "St Luke Painting the Virgin", created by Giorgio Vasari after 1565 (Fresco).
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Web Gallery of Art: Spandrel Painting
An image of "Spandrel painting", created by Philipp Hieronymus Brinckmann after 1748 (Fresco).
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Web Gallery of Art: Painted Architecture
An image of "Painted architecture", created by Pietro Lorenzetti, c. 1320 (Fresco).
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Unesco: Romania: Churches of Moldavia
These eight churches of northern Moldavia, built from the late 15th century to the late 16th century, their external walls covered in fresco paintings, are masterpieces inspired by Byzantine art. They are authentic and particularly well...