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Eye Candy for Today: Inness pines

Pine Grove of the Barberini Villa, George Inness
Pine Grove of the Barberini Villa, George Inness

This soft, moody landscape by Inness is given an almost Pre-Raphaelite feel by the shapes of the Italian pines.

In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use Fullscreen link.


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3 responses to “Eye Candy for Today: Inness pines”

  1. How do you like this ‘Pines of the Villa Barberini’ painting by John Gatsby Chapman?
    Thanks to prolific photographer Renzo Diogini;
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/renzodionigi/7140304027/lightbox/

    1. Thanks, Ælle. When I visited Italy, particularly Rome, I was struck with the trees that actually look like these; they always felt stylized in paintings.