/** * Curated art-history annotations for painting detail overlays. * Each entry: { artist, title, annotations: [{ label, body, category, pos_x?, pos_y?, source_* }] } */ module.exports = [ { artist: 'Leonardo da Vinci', title: 'Mona Lisa', annotations: [ { label: 'Sfumato', body: 'Leonardo dissolves hard edges into smoky transitions, letting light model the face without outline.', category: 'technique', pos_x: 48, pos_y: 38, source_author: 'E. H. Gombrich', source: 'The Story of Art', }, { label: 'Landscape', body: 'The winding paths and hazy mountains behind the sitter use aerial perspective to push space into depth.', category: 'composition', pos_x: 72, pos_y: 68, source_author: 'National Gallery', source: 'Leonardo da Vinci: The Mona Lisa', source_url: 'https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/leonardo-da-vinci-the-mona-lisa', }, { label: 'Enigmatic smile', body: 'The mouth’s subtle turn became a touchstone for Renaissance discussions of inner life and portraiture.', category: 'subject', pos_x: 52, pos_y: 52, source_author: 'E. H. Gombrich', source: 'The Story of Art', }, ], }, { artist: 'Leonardo da Vinci', title: 'The Last Supper', annotations: [ { label: 'Perspective', body: 'Orthogonal lines converge on Christ’s head, anchoring the drama in a mathematically ordered refectory.', category: 'composition', pos_x: 50, pos_y: 42, source_author: 'E. H. Gombrich', source: 'The Story of Art', }, { label: 'Gesture', body: 'Each apostle reacts with a distinct bodily pose, turning the moment of betrayal into readable human psychology.', category: 'subject', pos_x: 28, pos_y: 55, source_author: 'H. W. Janson', source: 'History of Art', }, ], }, { artist: 'Michelangelo', title: 'The Creation of Adam', annotations: [ { label: 'The spark', body: 'God and Adam reach across a gap barely bridged by touching fingers—the instant before life is given.', category: 'symbolism', pos_x: 62, pos_y: 48, source_author: 'E. H. Gombrich', source: 'The Story of Art', }, { label: 'Anatomy', body: 'Adam’s body echoes antique sculpture while God’s billowing mantle suggests the brain’s form in Renaissance thought.', category: 'technique', pos_x: 38, pos_y: 58, source_author: 'Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer', source: 'The Metropolitan Museum of Art', source_url: 'https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2017/michelangelo', }, ], }, { artist: 'Raphael', title: 'The School of Athens', annotations: [ { label: 'Architecture', body: 'A grand Bramante-like vault frames philosophers as actors on a classical stage of reason.', category: 'composition', pos_x: 50, pos_y: 22, source_author: 'E. H. Gombrich', source: 'The Story of Art', }, { label: 'Plato & Aristotle', body: 'Plato points upward to ideals; Aristotle gestures earthward—two paths of knowledge in dialogue.', category: 'symbolism', pos_x: 54, pos_y: 52, source_author: 'Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy', source: 'Plato and Aristotle in Raphael\'s School of Athens', source_url: 'https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plato/', }, ], }, { artist: 'Vincent van Gogh', title: 'The Starry Night', annotations: [ { label: 'Swirling sky', body: 'Thick, rhythmic strokes turn the night into an animated force rather than a static backdrop.', category: 'technique', pos_x: 50, pos_y: 28, source_author: 'Museum of Modern Art', source: 'Vincent van Gogh: The Starry Night', source_url: 'https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79802', }, { label: 'Cypress', body: 'The dark flame-like tree links earth and heaven, a traditional symbol of mourning and eternity.', category: 'symbolism', pos_x: 22, pos_y: 62, source_author: 'E. H. Gombrich', source: 'The Story of Art', }, { label: 'Village', body: 'The quiet hamlet below contrasts with the turbulent heavens, suggesting inner turmoil against outward calm.', category: 'subject', pos_x: 48, pos_y: 78, source_author: 'Van Gogh Museum', source: 'Collection catalogue', source_url: 'https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/collection/s0176V1962', }, ], }, { artist: 'Rembrandt', title: 'The Night Watch', annotations: [ { label: 'Chiaroscuro', body: 'A sharp light picks out faces and weapons from deep shadow, heightening the militia’s forward motion.', category: 'technique', pos_x: 42, pos_y: 45, source_author: 'Rijksmuseum', source: 'The Night Watch', source_url: 'https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/SK-C-5', }, { label: 'Group portrait', body: 'Rembrandt breaks the static row format—figures overlap and move, turning a commission into narrative action.', category: 'composition', pos_x: 58, pos_y: 55, source_author: 'E. H. Gombrich', source: 'The Story of Art', }, ], }, { artist: 'Vermeer', title: 'Girl with a Pearl Earring', annotations: [ { label: 'Pearl', body: 'A single highlight on the earring demonstrates Vermeer’s control of light on a tiny reflective surface.', category: 'technique', pos_x: 58, pos_y: 52, source_author: 'Mauritshuis', source: 'Girl with a Pearl Earring', source_url: 'https://www.mauritshuis.nl/en/our-collection/artworks/670-girl-with-a-pearl-earring/', }, { label: 'Turned glance', body: 'The sitter looks over her shoulder as if interrupted—a intimate moment rare in formal Dutch portraiture.', category: 'subject', pos_x: 46, pos_y: 38, source_author: 'E. H. Gombrich', source: 'The Story of Art', }, ], }, { artist: 'Diego Velázquez', title: 'Las Meninas', annotations: [ { label: 'Mirror', body: 'The reflected king and queen place the viewer where royalty would stand, collapsing court and spectator.', category: 'symbolism', pos_x: 72, pos_y: 42, source_author: 'Museo del Prado', source: 'Las Meninas', source_url: 'https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/las-meninas', }, { label: 'Painter', body: 'Velázquez inserts himself at the easel, making painting itself the subject of a royal chamber scene.', category: 'history', pos_x: 18, pos_y: 48, source_author: 'E. H. Gombrich', source: 'The Story of Art', }, ], }, { artist: 'Pablo Picasso', title: 'Guernica', annotations: [ { label: 'Monochrome', body: 'Grey, black, and white evoke newspaper reportage, tying the mural to the bombing’s documentary shock.', category: 'technique', pos_x: 50, pos_y: 35, source_author: 'Museo Reina Sofía', source: 'Guernica', source_url: 'https://www.museoreinasofia.es/en/collection/artwork/guernica', }, { label: 'Broken forms', body: 'Cubist fragmentation shatters bodies and tools into signs of suffering rather than readable illusion.', category: 'composition', pos_x: 35, pos_y: 58, source_author: 'E. H. Gombrich', source: 'The Story of Art', }, { label: 'Bull & horse', body: 'Spanish symbols of brutality and the people collide in a tableau Picasso designed as political testimony.', category: 'symbolism', pos_x: 68, pos_y: 62, source_author: 'H. W. Janson', source: 'History of Art', }, ], }, { artist: 'Claude Monet', title: 'Impression, Sunrise', annotations: [ { label: 'Loose brushwork', body: 'Quick strokes suggest the harbor rather than describing it—giving a critic the name “Impressionism.”', category: 'technique', pos_x: 55, pos_y: 40, source_author: 'Musée Marmottan Monet', source: 'Impression, Sunrise', source_url: 'https://www.marmottan.fr/en/collections/impression-sunrise', }, { label: 'Orange sun', body: 'The sun’s reflection on water becomes the focal note against a cool, industrial Le Havre skyline.', category: 'composition', pos_x: 38, pos_y: 32, source_author: 'E. H. Gombrich', source: 'The Story of Art', }, ], }, { artist: 'Jan van Eyck', title: 'The Arnolfini Portrait', annotations: [ { label: 'Mirror', body: 'The convex mirror reflects two additional figures—often read as witnesses to a marital contract.', category: 'symbolism', pos_x: 78, pos_y: 38, source_author: 'National Gallery', source: 'The Arnolfini Portrait', source_url: 'https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/jan-van-eyck-the-arnolfini-portrait', }, { label: 'Oil detail', body: 'Van Eyck layers transparent glazes to render textures from fur to brass with microscopic clarity.', category: 'technique', pos_x: 45, pos_y: 72, source_author: 'E. H. Gombrich', source: 'The Story of Art', }, ], }, { artist: 'Sandro Botticelli', title: 'The Birth of Venus', annotations: [ { label: 'Classical myth', body: 'Venus arrives on a shell, reviving antique pagan beauty for Medici Florence.', category: 'subject', pos_x: 52, pos_y: 48, source_author: 'Uffizi Galleries', source: 'Birth of Venus', source_url: 'https://www.uffizi.it/en/artworks/birth-of-venus', }, { label: 'Linear grace', body: 'Flowing outlines and floating figures prioritize decorative rhythm over solid Renaissance volume.', category: 'composition', pos_x: 30, pos_y: 55, source_author: 'E. H. Gombrich', source: 'The Story of Art', }, ], }, { artist: 'Andrei Rublev', title: 'Trinity', annotations: [ { label: 'Icon symmetry', body: 'Three angels share a single table in near-perfect balance, expressing theological unity through form.', category: 'composition', pos_x: 50, pos_y: 50, source_author: 'Tretyakov Gallery', source: 'The Trinity by Andrei Rublev', source_url: 'https://www.tretyakovgallery.ru/en/collection/_show/image/_id/208', }, { label: 'Reverse perspective', body: 'Lines subtly open toward the viewer, inviting contemplation into the sacred space rather than away from it.', category: 'technique', pos_x: 50, pos_y: 72, source_author: 'E. H. Gombrich', source: 'The Story of Art', }, ], }, { artist: 'Edvard Munch', title: 'The Scream', annotations: [ { label: 'Wavy horizon', body: 'Undulating lines transmit inner anxiety into the landscape itself—a key Symbolist device.', category: 'technique', pos_x: 50, pos_y: 30, source_author: 'Munch Museum', source: 'The Scream', source_url: 'https://www.munchmuseet.no/en/the-scream/', }, { label: 'Open mouth', body: 'The figure’s silent shriek became an emblem of modern alienation in fin-de-siècle Europe.', category: 'symbolism', pos_x: 48, pos_y: 42, source_author: 'E. H. Gombrich', source: 'The Story of Art', }, ], }, { artist: 'Salvador Dalí', title: 'The Persistence of Memory', annotations: [ { label: 'Soft watches', body: 'Liquid clocks parody rigid time, linking Surrealist dream logic to Einstein’s relativity in popular imagination.', category: 'symbolism', pos_x: 42, pos_y: 62, source_author: 'Museum of Modern Art', source: 'The Persistence of Memory', source_url: 'https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79018', }, { label: 'Dead landscape', body: 'The barren Catalonian coast stretches behind the table, grounding impossible objects in precise illusionism.', category: 'composition', pos_x: 55, pos_y: 28, source_author: 'E. H. Gombrich', source: 'The Story of Art', }, ], }, { artist: 'Caravaggio', title: 'The Calling of Saint Matthew', annotations: [ { label: 'Tenebrism', body: 'A beam of light cuts the tavern darkness to isolate Christ’s gesture and Matthew’s hesitation.', category: 'technique', pos_x: 62, pos_y: 38, source_author: 'E. H. Gombrich', source: 'The Story of Art', }, { label: 'Everyday setting', body: 'Sacred drama unfolds among ordinary tax collectors, a Counter-Reformation strategy to make faith immediate.', category: 'history', pos_x: 40, pos_y: 58, source_author: 'San Luigi dei Francesi', source: 'Contarelli Chapel cycle', source_url: 'https://www.sanluigideifrancesi.it/en/contarelli-chapel/', }, ], }, ];