https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/ Public Domain Images Scanned for My Essays A key example of the fusion of art and music in Symbolist and Nabis art of the 1890s and of the "kindred spirit" theme, this image is discussed in the section on musical aesthetics in my essay, "Vuillard and the Feminine Interior" posted on this web site under ESSAYS BY PERIOD (scroll down to 19th century) https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=89734417 89734417 My essay on this work is posted under ESSAYS BY PERIOD (scroll down to 15th Northern). My essay discusses the founding of chivalkric orders in the late Middle Ages and thegrowing, "national" importance of St Michael in France. https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=69907545 69907545 manuscript illumination from The Hours of Etienne Chevalier. I have posted a detailed essay on this work on this web site under ESSAYS BY PERIOD (scroll down to 15th Northern) https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=69824999 69824999 My essay on this darkness and meditative beholding is posted under ESSAYS BY PERIOD (scroll down to 15th Northern) https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=69907546 69907546 My essay on this work is posted under ESSAYS BY PERIOD (scroll down to Medieval). I discuss the "knight of love" and the transformation of traditional aristocratic masculine identity from a warrior to a warrior-lover-courtier, serving the higher quest of love and striving to win the beloved. https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=69907547 69907547 My essay on this work is posted under ESSAYS BY PERIOD (scroll down to 15th Northern). My essay discusses the religious and secular politics of cosmic imagery in 15th-century art. https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=69962406 69962406 My essay on this work is posted under ESSAYS BY PERIOD (scroll down to 15th Northern). My essay discusses the religious and courtly politics of hierarchy, rebellion, and cosmic order in late medieval and fifteenth-century Europe. https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=69907549 69907549 My essay on this work is posted under ESSAYS BY PERIOD (scroll down to 15th Northern). My essay discusses the emergence within late medieval Christian culture, of a secular landscape aesthetic prizing the beauty, cosmic order, and diversity of God's creation. The parallel between a secular idea of the Golden Age (an original perfect moment) and the Christian idea of Paradise is also discussed, along with animal symbolism. https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=69907550 69907550 This important work exemplifies the popular fifteenth-century theme of the Madonna in an enclosed garden which symbolizes chastity, fertility, and Paradise (lost and regained through Mary). I have posted a detailed essay on this work on this web site under ESSAYS BY PERIOD (scroll down to 15th Northern) / photo from flickr.com https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=69907756 69907756 This important work exemplifies the popular fifteenth-century theme of the Madonna in an enclosed garden which symbolizes chastity, fertility, and Paradise (lost and regained through Mary). My essay on this work is posted under ESSAYS BY PERIOD (scroll down to 15th Northern) / https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=69907757 69907757 My essay on this work is posted under ESSAYS BY PERIOD (scroll down to 15th Italian and look for "Donatello and Botticelli's Judith and Holofernes" https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=69907542 69907542 My essay on this work is posted under ESSAYS BY PERIOD (scroll down to 15th Italian and look for "Donatello and Botticelli's Judith and Holofernes" https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=69907541 69907541 By replacing Aristotle and Phylis and Samson and Delilah with a married, dancing couple escorted by Mercury, (appearing here the god of male transition from youthful independence to conjugal obligation and order), this artist updated the Petrarchan theme of the "Triumph of Love" with Florentine humanist conjugal imagery found in Marsilio Ficino and Botticelli's Primavera. See my essay on Botticelli's mythologies (especially the "Birth of Venus" and "Primavera") posted on this web site under ESSAYS BY PERIOD (scroll down to 15th Italian https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=71065871 71065871 My essay on this work is posted under ESSAYS BY PERIOD (scroll down to 16th Italian). This wasTitian's first major commission in Venice and its spectacular sucess launched his career. My essay discusses artistic innovations, classical triumphal imagery which brought this theme to new life, and the civic politics of Mary's victory in a city closely identified with Mary at a time of Turkish military threats. https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=69907539 69907539 My essay, "George and the Dragon, Perseus and Andromeda, and the Renaissance Damsel in Distress" is posted on this web site under ESSAYS BY PERIOD (scroll down to 16th Italian). My essay discusses the overlap of traditional late medieval Christian and chivalric magery with the new Renaissance theme of the triumphal warrior-ruler on a horse, this at a time when Bordone's hometown was waging war against the Ottoman Turks. https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=70781825 70781825 My essay on this work is posted under ESSAYS BY PERIOD (scroll down to 16th Northern). My essay discusses the intersection of gender stereotypes (women as greedy, grasping, materialistic, unruly carnal beings) with upper middle-class social stereotypes of a similart nature directed against the "common man". In some works Bruegel extoilled peasants and workers. In other works, he ridiculed them. In still other works, he did both. This work develops the fantastic, imaginary tradition of Bosch, which Bruegel used elsewhere in a number of works, but directs the imagery more closely to social satire, here in a hellish seaport mimicking his hometown of Antwerp, then the largest commercial center of the world. https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=69907543 69907543 My essay on this work is posted under ESSAYS BY PERIOD (scroll down to 17th Northern). My essay discusses the Dutch middle-class gender politics of "feminine" domesticity, breastfeeding, and cooking, on the one hand, and the new attentive parenting pioneered by the Dutch. https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=69907544 69907544 My essay on this work is posted under ESSAYS BY PERIOD (scroll down to 17th Italian). My essay discusses Catholic Counter-Reformation ideas on dying well and nuptial piety or mystical marriage whereby the soul unites with God like a husband and wife in perfect harmony. The new Baroque Catholic imagery of hearts and fire (flaming hearts) is also discussed, along with the erotic interopretation of death and Christian devotion. For more on fire, see my essay on Pozzo's Triumph of St. Ignatius. https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=69907548 69907548 My essay on this work is posted under ESSAYS BY PERIOD (scroll down to 17th French). Heavily indebted to Venetian High Renaissance art, Poussin's Venus Lamenting Adonis exemplifies the early, sensual mythological lanscapes of Poussin before he turned to an austere, Stoic manner. https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=69907752 69907752 My essay on this work is posted under ESSAYS BY PERIOD (scroll down to 19th Century). Redon's Beatrice exemplifies the Dante revival of the 19th century and the new interest in traditional gender roles of the celestial or spiritual female beloved (pure, chaste, girlish, luminous). The celestial woman was the other side of the coin of the femme fatale, a new late 19th century theme also explored by Redon, among many others. The opposite of Redon's Beatrice is Munch's Madonna, a sperm-encircled whore. https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=69907753 69907753 My essay on this work is posted under ESSAYS BY PERIOD (scroll down to 15th Century Italian) https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=148857259 148857259 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=148857260 148857260 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=148857261 148857261 My essay on this work is posted under ESSAYS BY PERIOD (scroll down to 15th Century Italian) https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=148857262 148857262 My essay on this work is posted under ESSAYS BY PERIOD (scroll down to 14th Century) https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=148857263 148857263 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=148857264 148857264 My essay on this work is posted under ESSAYS BY PERIOD (scroll down to 14th Century) https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=148858565 148858565 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=148858566 148858566 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=148858567 148858567 My essay on this work is posted under ESSAYS BY PERIOD (scroll down to 15th Century Italian) https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=148857269 148857269 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=148857267 148857267 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=148857268 148857268 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=148857265 148857265 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=148857266 148857266 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=148857645 148857645 My essay on this work is posted under ESSAYS BY PERIOD (scroll down to 15th Italian). My essay discusses Christian vs. classical ideas on the nude, beauty and old age, sin and mortality, and the new "rhetorical" art of emotion developed in the Early Renaissance. Bellini's drunken Noah resembles not just the Dead Christ in a Lamentation but also the sleeping nymph, stripped by an onlooker, a theme Bellini himself helped revive from antiquity. https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=69907540 69907540 My essay on this work is posted under ESSAYS BY PERIOD (scroll down to 15th Century Italian) https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=150463628 150463628 See my essay on this Renaissance recreation of a classical theater, posted on this web site under ESSAYS BY PERIOD (scroll down to 16th Italian). My essay discusses the Renaissance humanist revival of classical drama and the building of classicizing theaters for the performance of classical plays, as well as the new idea of "natural nobility" claimed by all educated persons. https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=69907551 69907551 See my essay on this Renaissance recreation of a classical theater, posted on this web site under ESSAYS BY PERIOD (scroll down to 16th Italian). My essay discusses the Renaissance humanist revival of classical drama and the building of classicizing theaters for the performance of classical plays, as well as the new idea of "natural nobility" claimed by all educated persons. https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=166783570 166783570 See my essay on this Renaissance recreation of a classical theater, posted on this web site under ESSAYS BY PERIOD (scroll down to 16th Italian). My essay discusses the Renaissance humanist revival of classical drama and the building of classicizing theaters for the performance of classical plays, as well as the new idea of "natural nobility" claimed by all educated persons. https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=166783569 166783569 from Barbaro's edition of Vitruvius, On Architecture, 1566 See my essay on this Renaissance recreation of a classical theater, posted on this web site under ESSAYS BY PERIOD (scroll down to 16th Italian). My essay discusses the Renaissance humanist revival of classical drama and the building of classicizing theaters for the performance of classical plays, as well as the new idea of "natural nobility" claimed by all educated persons. https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=166783567 166783567 from Barbaro's edition of Vitruvius, On Architecture, 1566. See my essay on this Renaissance recreation of a classical theater, posted on this web site under ESSAYS BY PERIOD (scroll down to 16th Italian). My essay discusses the Renaissance humanist revival of classical drama and the building of classicizing theaters for the performance of classical plays, as well as the new idea of "natural nobility" claimed by all educated persons. https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=166783568 166783568 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=174036309 174036309 commissioned by the banker, Palla Strozzi, for the sacristy which already featured his lavish, late medieval altarpiece, "Adoration of the Magi" https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=174036314 174036314 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=174036310 174036310 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=174036312 174036312 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=174036311 174036311 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=174036313 174036313 De Sphera Ms., c. 1450 (an astrological manuscript depicting the seven planetary gods and their terrestrial "children" - that is, activities influenced by each planet https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=176512361 176512361 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=176512362 176512362 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=176512363 176512363 from Renee of Anjou's allegorical courtly romance, The Book of the Love-Smitten Heart.. As explained in the narrative, the winged heart is the emblem of of all Lovers. https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=176512364 176512364 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=177212452 177212452 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=177212451 177212451 In this Protestant propaganda woodcut satirizing the mercantile, "whorish" Catholic church, the pope sells religious offices, and indulgences (time off from Purgatory) while the true Christ drives money changers from the temple. https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=177212582 177212582 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=184086379 184086379 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=184086597 184086597 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=184086381 184086381 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=184086598 184086598 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=184333779 184333779 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=184333780 184333780 https://socialhistoryofart.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=184334413 184334413