Searchable Medieval art database -- myArmoury.com

Harry Marinakis · Posted: Wed 08 May, 2013 4:26 pm Post subject: Searchable Medieval art database

FYI. Another resource.

"The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of Western (European) fine arts of the Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, and Impressionism periods (1000-1900), currently containing over 31.800 reproductions."

http://www.wga.hu/

Roger Hooper · Posted: Wed 08 May, 2013 4:45 pm Post subject:

Thanks for putting that up. It will be a useful tool to find whatever we are looking for.

Christopher B Lellis · Posted: Wed 08 May, 2013 8:14 pm Post subject:

Nice, I put this one on my toolbar.

Christopher B Lellis · Posted: Wed 08 May, 2013 8:32 pm Post subject:

Wow, there are some awesome paintings there.

I want these 2 on my walls.

Raman A · Posted: Thu 09 May, 2013 3:02 am Post subject:

Thanks, I'm going to have fun with this.

I searched up one of my favorite paintings, Caravaggio's Taking of Christ. They had a nice detail photo of the armor of the soldiers:

http://www.wga.hu/art/c/caravagg/03/192capta.jpg

There's so much detail and he captures the texture of the different surfaces amazingly well. Caravaggio was truly a master.