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Eye Candy for Today: Melendez Still Life with Cucumbers and Tomatoes
Still Life with Cucumbers and Tomatoes, Luis Egidio Meléndez The Prado website has both a zoomable and downloadable version of the image. (Click the image and look for the download icon at the lower right. Click “Uso personal” and then “Descargar Imagen”.) There is also a downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, though it is sonewhat…
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Eye Candy for Today: Luis Meléndez Still Life with Figs and Bread
Still Life with Figs and Bread, Luis Meléndez The link is to a zoomable version on the Google Art Project; there is a downloadable high resolution file on Wikimedia Commons; the original is in the National Gallery of Art, DC. (The latter also offers a downloadable high resolution file, but I couldn’t access it this…
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Luis Meléndez
18th century painter Luis Egidio Meléndez was one of the greatest Spanish still life painters, and to my mind, one of the great still life painters of history, though he received little recognition in his own time. His mastery of texture, light and composition elevated his subjects — fruit, melons, fish, game and Chardin-like kitchen…
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Eye Candy for Today: Meléndez still life with apples
Still Life with Apples, Grapes, Melons, Bread, Jug and Bottle, Luis Meléndez Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Museu Nacional D’Arte De Catalunya. Here is another beautiful still life by 17th century Spanish master Luis Egidio Meléndez. I’m particularly fascinated in this arrangement…
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Eye Candy for Today: Meléndez still life
Still Life with Oranges, Jars and Boxes of Sweets, Louis Meléndez The original is in the Kimbell Art Museum in Texas. View the painting in high resolution on the Google Cultural Institute: Art Project, or on Wikimedia Commons (large version here, 3.3mb). A superbly composed and painted tour-de-force of still life from the Spanish master.…
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Eye Candy for Today: Meléndez Melon and Pears
Still life with Melon and Pears, Luis Egidio Meléndez, oil on canvas, roughly 25 x 33 inches (63 x 85 cm). Link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project; downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.. A wonderfully tactile and sensual still life by the 18th century…