The following content has been added to the Image Collection Database

Ancient Art: Classical Sculpture from the British Museum

Islamic Art: Decorated Manuscript Pages and Folios

African Art: Sculpture of the Songye Culture

Asian Art: Animals in Chinese Painting, Woodblock prints by Hiroshige

Medieval and Renaissance Art: Chartres Cathedral

Modern and Contemporary: Paintings by Rene Magritte, Works by Vito Acconci

Architecture: Images of the Quadracci Pavilion at the Milwaukee Art Museum by Santiago Calatrava

For more information about the Image Collection, or for assistance in locating images, contact the Image Collection staff.  

 

The Image Collection has added content in the following areas:

Ancient Art: Roman Painting

Northern Renaissance Art: Art from the Burgundian Court of Charles the Bold

Renaissance Art: Paintings and Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci

Baroque Art: Dutch cityscapes of the Golden Age

African Art: Costumes and Ritual Objects of the Zulu and Maasai Cultures

Modern Art: Work by James Ensor, Arthur Dove, Peter Blake, the Italian Futurists and the German artist group known as Die Brücke

Photography: The work of Robert Mapplethorpe and Ana Mendieta

For more information about the Image Collection, or for assistance in locating images, contact the Image Collection staff.  

Image: Leonardo da Vinci. Proportional Study of a Man in the Manner of Vitruvius. 1492. Gallerie dellAccademia di Venezia

     

 

The Image Collection website is available again. Our apologies for any inconvenience the outage may have caused.

The Curricular Image Collection website is unavailable this morning. The server is currently experiencing a hardware problem. IS is looking into the cause of the issue and identifying possible solutions.At this time we do not have an estimate of when the service will be restored. We will keep you posted throughout the day as to our progress.

  

The Image Collection staff has finally finished a long-term project to make browsing easier and more accurate. Both the "Browse by Category" and "Browse by Creator/Artist" links on the left side of the Image Collection page now lead to pages with unique, authoritative and simpler entries. Previously, there were often multiple entries for an artist due to alternate names, misspellings or misattributions. Similarly, the Category page had multiple entries for some categories, as well as categories no longer used. These are now corrected, and browsing should be much simpler and effective.

Additionally, content has been added in the following areas:

American Art: Paintings by Kenny Scharf and Julian Schnabel

African Art: Works of the Hausa people and scenes from the ceremonies of the Yako culture of Southeastern Nigeria.

Northern Renaissance: Works by Robert Campin and Rogier van der Weyden

Italian Renaissance: Paintings by Venetian painters Titian, Paolo Veronese and Jacopo Tintoretto

Baroque Art: Highlights from a recent exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum

Islamic Art: Works in glass owned by the Corning Museum of Glass

Architecture: Drawings and plans by Frank Lloyd Wright

For more information about the Image Collection, or for assistance in locating images, contact the Image Collection staff. 

Image: Scharf, Kenny. "The Fun's Inside." 1983. Private Collection.

The Image Collection has recently added a large number of images related to Buddhist art and architecture. The images depict works of art as well as temples, monasteries and cave complexes from India, China, Japan and Southeast Asian countries from the Second Century B.C.E. to the Nineteenth Century.

Additionally, content has been added in the following areas:

Architecture: Architectural Dictionary - an illustrated list of architectural terms.

Photography: Works by Mike Disfarmer and Sophie Ristelhueber.

American Art: Paintings by The Eight (commonly referred to as the Ashcan School)

European Art: Paintings by Louis Leopold Boilly, Paul Klee and Edvard Munch.

Medieval/Renaissance Art: Byzantine art and architecture

Ancient Art:Punic Art from Tunisia

For more information about the Image Collection, or for assistance in locating images, contact the Image Collection staff.

Image: Buddha Amitabha. c. 750-850 C.E. Candi Borobudur. Java, Indonesia.

The Image Collection has recently added quite a few images of Chicago from the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. These can easily be located by doing a search on the Advanced Search Page with "Chicago" in the Place field and "Historical Photographs" in the Category field.

Additionally, we have added content in the following areas:

African Art: The Art and Architecture of Ancient Nubia, Senegalese Glass Painting

Renaissance/Baroque Art: The Paintings of Jan Vermeer

Asian Art: The Painting and Sculpture of Tibet, Japanese Temples and Sculpture of the Nara Period

Russian Art: Paintings by Kazimir Malevich

American Architecture: Prairie-Style Homes, including those by Frank Lloyd Wright and Walter Burley Griffin

For more information about the Image Collection, or for assistance in locating images, contact the Image Collection staff. 

The Image Collection has recently scanned (or rescanned) images relating to the theory and practice of art. These images include color wheels, illustrations of color theory and optical effects, perspective diagrams and examples of modeling. We have also added illustrations of theoretical texts by the Bauhaus artist and teacher Johannes Itten and plates illustrating "The Interaction of Color" by American artist Josef Albers. These images can be most easily found by searching "General Art Theory" in the Category box of the Advanced Search Page. 

 

Additionally, we have added content and higher-quality images in the following categories:

Ancient Art: Aegean Pottery, Painting and Sculpture from Pompeii and Herculaneum

African Art: Works from the Baule and Sao cultures.

Medieval Art: Manuscript Illuminations produced by the Limbourg Brothers.

Renaissance/Baroque Art: Paintings by Titian

Japanese Art: Prints by Utamaro

American Art: Paintings by Tom Wesselman

Photography: Works by Sebastiao Salgado

For more information about the Image Collection, or for assistance in locating images, contact the Image Collection staff.

Fall Quarter has been very productive in the Image Collection. 

In preperation for a course to be taught in the Spring, we have added quite a few images related to art of the Silk Road.  Search using the term "silk road" to locate most of these images.

We have also uploaded (and continue to upload) images from our Historical Photograph section of slides focusing on issues of slavery, segregation, and civil-rights protests. 

Finally, we've added quite a few images of work from the Renaissance in all media including painting, sculpture and the decorative arts.

For more information about the Image Collection, or for assistance in locating images, contact the Image Collection staff.

 

Image: Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi. "Adoration of the Magi." 1440-1460. Washington, DC. National Gallery of Art

As the Fall Quarter begins, the Image Collection has been adding content to support courses currently being taught. This includes new images of:

• African Art
• Dada and Surrealist Art
• Contemporary Chinese Photography
  
• The World's Columbian Exposition
  

Additionally, Digital Projects staff have been working to add images under the category "Biography."

These include portraits of artists, architects, politicians, celebrities, and designers. These images can be found by clicking on the "Advanced Search" page, and putting "Biography" in the Category field.