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Shutterstock, Inc. is an American provider of stock photography, stock footage, stock music, and editing tools; it is headquartered in New York. Founded in 2003 by programmer and photographer Jon Oringer, Shutterstock maintains a library of around 200 million royalty-free stock photos, vector graphics, and illustrations, with around 10 million video clips and music tracks available for licensing.
A public domain stock photo titled "frog on palm frond". Stock photography is the supply of photographs that are often licensed for specific uses. [1] The stock photo industry, which began to gain hold in the 1920s, [1] has established models including traditional macrostock photography, [2] midstock photography, [3] and microstock photography. [4]
In art history, "an iconography" may also mean a particular depiction of a subject in terms of the content of the image, such as the number of figures used, their placing and gestures. The term is also used in many academic fields other than art history, for example semiotics, media studies, and archaeology, [1] and in general usage, for the ...
The authenticity of provenance of an objet d’art is the positive identification of the artist and the place and time of the artwork's origin; thus, art experts determine authenticity of provenance with four tests: (i) verification of the artist's signature on the work of art; (ii) a review of the historical documentation attesting to the ...
Venus de Milo, at the Louvre. Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today, art history examines broader aspects of visual culture, including the various visual and conceptual outcomes related to ...
Historical method is the collection of techniques and guidelines that historians use to research and write histories of the past. Secondary sources, primary sources and material evidence such as that derived from archaeology may all be drawn on, and the historian's skill lies in identifying these sources, evaluating their relative authority, and combining their testimony appropriately in order ...
Gallery. Some of the photos are depicted below. Bloody Saturday – Battle of Shanghai. Cavalry camp near Balaklava – Crimean War. The Valley of the Shadow of Death – Siege of Sevastopol, Crimean War. X-ray by Wilhelm Röntgen. View from the Window at Le Gras. The Horse in Motion. Migrant Mother.
Provenance helps assign the work to a known artist, and a documented history can be of use in helping to prove ownership. An example of a detailed provenance is given in the Arnolfini portrait. The quality of provenance of an important work of art can make a considerable difference to its selling price in the market.