The Repentant Magdalen, Georges de La Tour Original is in the National Gallery of Art, D.C. High-resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. La Tour gives us one of his (if you’ll excuse the expression) tour de force candle-lit scenes, in which the flame itself is Read More …
The Magdalen with the Smoking Flame, Georges de La Tour. On Google Art Project. Original is in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Somewhere between the emotional drama of Caravaggio and the crystalline stillness of Vermeer lie the intimate, candlelit paintings of Georges de la Tour, a French master whose work was all but forgotten between his death in 1652 and its rediscovery in the early 20th Century. Read More …
Joseph the Carpenter, Georges de La Tour; oil on canvas; roughly 54 x 40 in (137 x 101 cm) Link is to image page on Wikimedia Commons. Original is listed as being in the Louvre (though I can’t find it in a search of the Read More …
The Flute Player, Abraham Bloemaert Roughly 23 x 27 inches (58 x 69 cm), link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project, downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Centraal Museum, Utrecht. In a composition somewhat similar to those of his contemporary Read More …
Adoration of the Shepherds, Gerrit (AKA Gerard) van Honthorst; link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project, downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. I love this kind of nativity scene, in which the painter has represented the infant as the source of light. Special effects! Read More …