Acknowledgments
Botticelli, The Birth of Venus, 1480 (detail)
Many images included on this website are acknowledged
on the page where they appear in highest resolution, and are generally not included on this page. The following items appear on other pages
but are explicitly acknowledged here.
Fine Art Images
Carol
Gerten Fine Arts site:
I am grateful to Carol Gerten for providing many of the images of art included on
this site. Her CGFA website moves around may be Googled.
Some images have been color balanced and adjuted in white/black levels, and/or excerpted (especially for the thumbnails) to
suit the particular needs of the page. Images from
the CGFA site that I have used include the following:
- Lawrence Alma-Tadema:
(1) "Antony and Cleopatra", 1883 (detail, antandcleop.jpg)
(2) "The Favorite
Poet", 1888, oil on panel, Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight
(detail, color adjusted)
- Sandro Botticelli:
(1) "The Birth of Venus", 1480 (detail, color adjusted)
(2) "Venus and
Mars", 1482-83, The National Gallery at London, England (detail)
- Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret, "Hamlet and the
Gravediggers", 1883 (detail)
- Eugène Delacroix, "The Barque of Dante" c. 1822 (detail)
- Sir Frank Dicksee [1853 - 1928], "Romeo and Juliet", date unknown
(detail)
- William Hogarth, "David Garrick as Richard III", 1745 (detail)
- Lord Frederic Leighton:
(1) "Music Lesson", exhibited 1877, oil on canvas, Guildhall Art Gallery,
London (detail, color adjusted, file leight_ml2x.jpg)
(2) "Mother and Child (Cherries)", detail, exhibited 1865
(3) "The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets Over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and
Juliet", 1853-55 (detail, retouched)
- William Morris, "Vision of the Holy Grail" 1890 (detail, image no
longer available on the CGFA website)
- Edvard Munch, "The
Scream", 1893, oil, tempera and pastel on cardboard, National Gallery,
Oslo (detail, color adjusted)
- Sir Edward John Poynter, "Cave of the Storm Nymphs", 1903
(detail).
- Rembrandt van Rijn, "Aristotle with a Bust of
Homer", 1653, oil on canvas, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York"
(detail, color adjusted)
- Diego Rivera, "The Maize Festival
(La fiesta del maíz)", from the cycle "Political Vision of the Mexican People", 1923-24, fresco, Ministry of Education, Mexico City
(detail, color adjusted)
- Peter Paul Rubens, "Venus
and Adonis", 1600s (detail)
- John Singer Sargent: "Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth", 1889 (detail)
- John William Waterhouse, "Miranda- The Tempest", c. 1916 (details, color
adjusted)
- Benjamin West, "King Lear", 1788 (detail, adjusted)
- Rogier van der Weyden, "Portrait of a Man Holding a
Book", before 1437, (detail, color adjusted).
Art works obtained from other sites:
These have also been included as follows:
- Richard Dadd, "Titania Sleeping", 1841 (detail, found at http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/classes/Shakespeare_Illustrated/Dadd.Titania.html, file daddtitania.jpg)
- Hans Holbein the Younger, "King Henry VIII" (c. 1536), found at
Tudor England Images (http://www.marileecody.com/henry8images.html, file henry8.jpg)
- Thomas Hudson, "The Radcliffe Family" (c. 1742), detail from photo by JRM taken at Denver Art Museum.
- Justus Sustermans, portrait of Galileo Galilei, 1636 (found at http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/PictDisplay/Galileo.html, file sustermansgalileo.jpg)
- Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770), "Caesar Contemplating the Head of
Pompey", date unknown to me (detail, color adjusted, http://community-2.webtv.net/wrblw/bibart2/page2.html, file caesarpompey.jpg)
- Thumbnail of Radiolarians, Ascidae (detail from drawing by Ernst Haeckel, Kunstformen der Natur 1899-1904, Tafel 85, found at http://caliban.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/~stueber/haeckel/kunstformen/natur.html, file radiolarianx.jpg)
- Dowlais Ironworks, George Childs, 1840. (detail and retouched, image from thomasgenweb.com/industrial_art.html)
Clip Art, Photographs, and Other Graphics
Some clip art and photographs have been obtained from websites which are no
longer in existence or for which I no longer have the hyperlink. However, the
following list states sources of images used where known:
- The photo of Gaston Julia on the Julia Sets page (gjulia2.gif) came from
http://homepages.force9.net/unity/fractals/index.html (site no longer valid)
- The portrait of William Shakespeare (shakesp.jpg) comes from All Info-About UKClipart
(resized & color adjusted, etc., URL=http://ukclipart.allinfo-about.co.uk/index.html)
- The grouping of musical instruments on the Digital Audio CD page (digaudio_musinsts.gif)
comes from
Music Graphics Galore (www.intcon.net/~songbird/inst/insts03.gif)
- Images of the Bismillah on the opening and Koran pages (bismillah3.gif and bismillah3_2_x.gif)
have been adapted from www.geocities.com/jamaad00/bismillah3.gif
and from the eMuslim site (www.emuslim.com, image apparently no longer
available on that site).
- The image of the Strait of Magellan is excerpted and modified from image ev25172_SSAmerica.A2003087.1835.500m.jpg
on the NASA Visible Earth project, described as copyright-free. It was
taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the
Terra satellite on March 28, 2003. File straitmagellan.jpg
- The image of average global temperature changes was adapted from the PDF
file dated Jan. 12, 2005 and found at the Goddard Institute for Space
Studies website, www.giss.nasa.gov/data/update/gistemp/2004/Fig.1.pdf.
- The image of projected climate change is from the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change, a joint effort of the the World Meteorological Organization
(WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), found at
www.ipcc.ch/present/graphics/2001syr/large/05.24.jpg (file giss_nasa_globaltemp.jpg).
- The thumbnail image of the Earth for the link to the Geological Time summary is from NASA dated 2002-02-08, found at http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=2429 (file earthnasa_20020208x.jpg)
- The thumbnail image of the Eagle Nebula for the link to Stars, Galaxies, and Beyound is extracted from the 2005 photo by HST/NASA/ESA, http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0506b/ (file eaglenebspire.jpg)
- The thumbnail image of Sam Cooke is extracted from http://kalamu.com/neogriot/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Sam-Cooke-03.jpg
- The thumbnail image of Hurrican Katrina from http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/h2005_katrina.html is shamelessly montaged with NASA's photo of the eye of Igor
- The thumbnail image of a rotating asynchronous induction motor modified by MCM from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induction_motor (file asynchmotor.gif)
- The thumbnail image of an axial compressor from https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/airplane/caxial.html, modified by MCM (file axialcompressor.gif)
- The thumbnail of the Great Auks is from Wikipedia after John Gerrard Keulemans.
- The thumbnail of the Eagle Nebula is from NASA
- The thumbnail of BIden and Harris is from wnyt.com
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