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Brand: Fogware Publishing EAN: 0798694880113 Format: CD-ROM Label: Fogware Publishing Manufacturer: Fogware Publishing Platform: Windows NT, Macintosh, Windows 2000, Windows Publisher: Fogware Publishing Studio: Fogware Publishing Editorial Review: Product Description: A Home Library and Companion for Art Lovers that blends history and art! This inspiring series provides an eyewitness account to centuries of human drama and artistic expression. Amazon.com Product Description: Take a fascinating journey through time as you visit historical periods to learn the social, political, religious, and economic context of each era.Discover the rebirth of classical values in the Renaissance and the turbulence and heroism of the romantic era. Witness the impact of modern technology, reshaping art and society dramatically, forever more. By blending creativity and content, these multifaceted programs reveal history through artistic expressions, such as sculpture, paintings, reliefs, and architecture. Four CDs feature periods like the Renaissance and the premodern era. Included are a 100-minute multimedia presentation, over 2,000 high-resolution color art images ready to print immediately, 400 interactive questions and quizzes, a customized glossary, and much more. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Dated but useful CDsYou wish the publishers could indicate the years of production and the original titles. These 4 CDs, featuring the renaissance, romanticism, the pre-modern era, and the 20th century, were part of the 10 CDs of History Through Art, starting with Ancient Greece, copyrighted by Zane Publishing Co. 1994-96. At that time they were considered highly valuable tools, essential for any school libraries. Now they are somewhat dated in the technology and design. The pictures are of slightly poorer quality, ... Read More Rating:  - unacceptable image qualityI was sooo disappointed by this set of CD-Rom. The quality of the images is just not acceptable, the resolution is low (not more than 640x480), and the colors are awful. Some images exhibit strong dithering artifacts suggesting that they are 8 bit only. The color fidelity is just incredibly bad. I cannot even believe that one can dare show such bad colors. I do not even know how one can manage to get such bad colors. I am not talking about the slight color shift that you sometimes notice from one book ... Read More |
