Author: cparker
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James C. Christensen, 1942-2017
James C. Christensen, a highly regarded illustrator and gallery artist who worked in the vein of fantasy, spiritual inspiration, and works tinged with the flavor of Renaissance portraits, died on January 8, 2017. Though there is a jameschristensen.com, it’s a commercial gallery’s site, and the images are watermarked (though not terribly so). A better source…
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Framed Perspective, Marcos Mateu-Mestre
Just to put things in… context, the history of graphical perspective goes back further, but the system of geometric perspective we use today can be traced to an important point in the beginning of the 15th century, when Filippo Brunelleschi — the brilliant Renaissance architect and designer who solved the seemingly intractable problem of spanning…
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Eye Candy for Today: Antonio Mauro Perspective Design for a Stage Set
Perspective Design for a Stage Set of an Italian Cityscape, Antonio Mauro II Pen and black ink, brown and gray wash and leadpoint layout lines, roughly 10 x 14 in. (27 x 36 cm). In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, use the Enlarge or Download links under their image. This beautifully crafted…
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Arthur Parton
Arthur Parton was an American landscape painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was a member of the Hudson River School, though there is less information available about him online than many of the other painters associated with that school. He studied under William Trost Richards at the Pennsylvania Academy of…
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Happy Leyendecker Baby New Year 2017!
As I’ve done every New Year’s Eve Since 2006, I’ll wish all Lines and Colors readers a Happy New Year with a few more of J.C. Leyendecker’s terrific New Year’s babies. See that post for background on the origin of the Leyendecker New Years baby covers for the Saturday Evening Post. Images above are from…
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Adoration of the Shepherds, Nicolas Maes
Adoration of the Shepherds, Nicolas Maes Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Getty Museum. The Getty’s version of the image looks dark to me, as often seems to be the case with museums’ online representation of their collections. The Google Art Project version,…