Title of Product:

Caravaggio, Web gallery of art

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Name of Author(s): created by Emil Kren and Daniel Marx. Dr. Emil Krén is a retired scientist in solid state physics, presently a consultant in information technology at KFKI Computer Systems Corporation, Budapest, Hungary. You can contact him at [email protected]

Name of Producer: Web Gallery of Art,

Language/s of Product: English - Hungarian

Website of the product: www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/t/tiepolo/gianbatt/index.html

Target Group: The Web Gallery of Art is intended to be a free resource of art history primarily for students and teachers. It is a private initiative not related to any museums or art institutions, and not supported financially by any state or corporate sponsors. Howev

Overall Evaluation: excellent

Objectives & Structure:
Aspects to consider: The use of the Dual-Window View can be particularly effective for
• viewing simultaneously two images related to each other
o by the influence one exerted to the other (example)
o by being companion-pieces (example)
o by representing the same subject (example)
o by displaying different views of a three-dimensional sculpture (example)
o and so on.
• viewing simultaneously a biography and the pages of an artist (example)
• printing to the same sheet two pages (e.g. one of the above examples).
We suggest you to enhance the experience of your visit by listening classical music. Please select a musical piece matching the particular image or the art history period you are studying and play it in the background.
We are offering a large selection of MIDI files quite enjoyable for keyboard music, and a limited choice of MP3-based listenings for vocal, chamber and orchestral music. In addition, we provide a list of on-line live broadcastings and Internet radios playing mostly classical music.

Description of contents:
The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture from 12th to mid-19th centuries. It was started in 1996 as a topical site of the Renaissance art, originated in the Italian city-states of the 14th century and spread to other countries in the 15th and 16th centuries. Intending to present Renaissance art as comprehensively as possible, the scope of the collection was later extended to show its Medieval roots as well as its evolution to Baroque and Rococo via Mannerism. More recently the periods of Neoclassicism and Romanticism were also included.

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Description of how the website can be used with the students::
By using the search feature you can find pictures from the collection satisfying certain requirements. The search can be performed either by typing search strings into one or several search boxes, or selecting an item from the roll down lists. Explanation of the search form as well as search tips and help for advanced search are available.