October’s featured
ARTstor Image Gallery:“Pumpkins, BONES and Witches“
ENTER HERE October Image Gallery
Follow the above link to view twenty-five multicultural images selected from the ARTstor Digital Library that depict pumpkins, bones or witches, including:
● a scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho
● a Mexican calaca figure celebrating the Day of the Dead festival
● Skull with Books by Dutch artist Jan Davidsz de Heem
● a Japanese hanging scroll with ants hauling a pumpkin
● a burning witch from a 16th-century German broadsheet
● an early American gravestone
● an anatomical illustration from Juan de Valverde’s Anatomia (1556)
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ARTstor is a digital library of approximately 550,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. The Digital Library serves users both within the arts and in disciplines outside of the arts in fields as diverse as American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Literary Studies, Medieval Studies, Music, Religious Studies, and Renaissance Studies. To access ARTstor: http://www.artstor.org/index.shtml or http://www.augustana.edu/library/Research/images.html
