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December 2007
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Spotlight: SCALA ARCHIVES
Located in Florence, Italy, SCALA ARCHIVES is Europe's
largest and most prestigious fine art image archive.
Transparencies and digital files of art works from
around the world, covering every age and every artistic
genre, are available for licensing to all media.
Italian art makes up the core of the collection,
but the Archives contain tens of thousands of first-rate
works from the rest of Europe, Russia, the Middle
East, Asia and Africa.
All works from the SCALA
ARCHIVES are available exclusively in North America
through Art Resource, New York.
ITALIAN
ART
SCALA ARCHIVES represents the collections of the Italian
Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities. This
collection includes tens of thousands of state-owned
images from 583 museums, archaeological sites and
libraries including the Brera, Capodimonte, Galleria
Borghese, The Roman Forum, and Pompeii.
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 GALLERIA
BORGHESE
Rome's
Galleria Borghese contains a remarkable collection
of Italian Baroque painting and ancient sculpture.
Begun in the 17th century by Cardinal Sciopone Borghese,
the Galleria Borghese includes such masterpieces as
Gianlorenzo Bernini's "Apollo and Daphne",
Caravaggio's "Sick Bacchus" and Titian's
"Sacred and Profane Love".
Please
click here for a selection of SCALA's images from
the Galleria Borghese
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 THE
UFFIZI GALLERY
Commissioned by the legendary
Medici Family in the 16th century, the Uffizi Gallery
is one of the oldest and most famous art museums of
the world. Many masterpieces can be found at the Uffizi
including "The Birth of Venus" by Botticelli,
"Portrait of the Duke and Duchess of Urbino"
by Piero della Francesca and "Young Bacchus"
by Caravaggio.
Please
click here for a selection of SCALA's images from
The Uffizi in Florence
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SCALA in ACTION
SCALA ARCHIVES licenses its images to a worldwide
base of clients, including BMW, TIME, Enel SpA, La
Repubblica, Newsweek Magazine, Elena Miro, the BBC,
RAI Television, Gallimard-Paris, Thames & Hudson-London,
Kodansha-Tokyo, Slovo-Mosca and Taschen-Cologne.
Please
click here for examples of SCALA's images in action
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 MUSEO
DEL PRADO
SCALA ARCHIVES offers most of the holdings of the
Museo del Prado, located in Madrid, Spain. The museum
is world renowned for its collection, which includes
major works by such artists as Diego Velazquez, Francisco
Goya, El Greco and Bartolomé Estéban
Murillo. Please
click here for a selection of SCALA's images from
the Museo del Prado
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 THE
HERMITAGE MUSEUM
Images from The Hermitage Museum, located in Saint
Petersburg, Russia, are also available from SCALA
ARCHIVES. Originally a palace to Russia's Tsars, the
Hermitage has now grown to become one of the world's
largest and finest collections of Western Art. Artists
represented in the museum's holdings include Michelangelo,
Cézanne, Rembrandt, Gauguin, Canova, Monet
and Leonardo da Vinci.
Please
click here for a selection of SCALA's images from
The Hermitage Museum
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