Microsoft Art Gallery, The Collection of the National Gallery, London. (CD-ROM)
Microsoft Art Gallery, The Collection of the National Gallery, London
Multimedia CD | Windows | 680 MB
Microsoft Art Gallery offers a wealth of reproductions from the National Gallery in London.
The interface is divided into five parts:
- "Artist's Lives" is an alphabetical listing of the painters that takes you to a biography and thumbnails of that artist's works. You can then bring up an individual work to look at in detail.
- "Historical Atlas" categorizes the images by geographical location and historical time period. Eventually you arrive at the same painting detail as above.
- "Picture Types" categorizes the images by subject (Religious Imagery, Portraits, Views, Still Life, etc.). Each subject is further subdivided, for example, you can thread through Religious Imagery to Altarpieces, and finally to Polytychs, where a group of thumbnails is provided to link to the individual works.
- "General Reference" is an illustrated glossary of painting terms.
- "Guided Tours" offers four multi-page threads: "Composition and Perspective", "Making Paintings", "Paintings as Objects" and "Beneath the Varnish". Each of the tours includes animated analysis of exemplary works. The animation will only run under 256 colors.
- "Artist's Lives" is an alphabetical listing of the painters that takes you to a biography and thumbnails of that artist's works. You can then bring up an individual work to look at in detail.
- "Historical Atlas" categorizes the images by geographical location and historical time period. Eventually you arrive at the same painting detail as above.
- "Picture Types" categorizes the images by subject (Religious Imagery, Portraits, Views, Still Life, etc.). Each subject is further subdivided, for example, you can thread through Religious Imagery to Altarpieces, and finally to Polytychs, where a group of thumbnails is provided to link to the individual works.
- "General Reference" is an illustrated glossary of painting terms.
- "Guided Tours" offers four multi-page threads: "Composition and Perspective", "Making Paintings", "Paintings as Objects" and "Beneath the Varnish". Each of the tours includes animated analysis of exemplary works. The animation will only run under 256 colors.
http://rapidshare.com/files/290184300/AG.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/290191530/AG.part2.rar
Enjoy!