Still Life with Ewer and Basin, Fruit, Nautilus Cup and other Objects, Willem Kalf Oil on canvas, roughly 44 x 33 inches (111 x 84 cm); in the collection of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museo Nacional, Madrid, which has zoomable and downloadable versions of the image on Read More …
Still Life with Ewer, Vessels and Pomegranate, Willem Kalf Link is to the original in the Getty Museum, which has both zoomable and downloadable versions. There is also a zoomable version on Google Art Project, and a downloadable version of that file on Wikimedia Commons. Read More …
Still Life with Silver Jug, Willem Kalf In the Rijksmuseum. Image also available on Google Art Project and Wikimedia Commons. Kalf just loved to trace the path of light across arrangements of complex objects, particularly those with intricate reflective surfaces. I love the reflected color Read More …
Pronk Still Life with Holbein Bowl, Nautilus Cup, Glass Goblet and Fruit Dish, Willem Kalf Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project, downloadable high-res file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Statens Museum for Kunst, National Gallery of Denmark, which also has Read More …
A number of art museums have been revitalizing their websites as they begin to realize what a powerful tool they are for public relations, as well as for their theoretical mission of education. Not all can aspire to the gold standard set a few years Read More …
Wikimedia Commons (see my Lines and Colors post here), the huge, mostly public domain image repository associated with Wikipedia, has a nice aspect to its organization that lets you view a broad variety of art organized by year, decade or century. These are just a Read More …