Category: Eye Candy for Today
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Eye Candy for Today: Sassoferrato’s Virgin in Prayer
The Virgin in Prayer, Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato This beautiful painting is in the National Gallery, London, where is is currently part of their exhibition on painting materials, Making Color. This is primarily because of the artist’s use of genuine Ultramarine Blue in the robes. Before the formulation of the modern synthetic version, French…
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Eye Candy for Today: Dean Cornwell’s artist and model
The Artist and His Model, Dean Cornwell This beautiful piece by the brilliant American illustrator Dean Cornwell was in a private collection for years, and was sold at auction last October. The Heritage Auctions site has details. For those who don’t have a Heritage account, you can see the image in high resolution (2.8mb) through…
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Eye Candy for Today: Ingres pencil portrait
Portrait of a Seated Lady, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres In the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Eye Candy for Today: Hans Hoffmann’s hare
A Hare in the Forest, Hans Hoffmann On Google Art Project; high-resolution downloadable file (21mb) on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Getty Museum, which has some background on the painting. Interesting to compare this oil painting by Hoffmann to Durer’s famous watercolor/gouache study of a hare, on which this, and Hoffmann’s own watercolor/gouache study…
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Eye Candy for Today: Edmund Kanoldt pencil drawing
View of Benevento, Edmund Kanoldt On Google Art Project. Downloadable high-res file on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Getty Museum. A beautifully complete, but still economical, graphite drawing by the 19th century German landscape artist. I love the way he has handled the tone and textural variation in the distance, middle ground and foreground…
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Eye Candy for Today: Hanna Hirsch Pauli invites us for breakfast
Breakfast-Time, Hanna Hirsch Pauli There is an often overlooked sub-genre of painting that I particularly enjoy; for lack of a better term, it might be called “outdoor still life”. I’m hard pressed to think of a better example than this stunningly beautiful painting of a 19th century breakfast table in a sun-dappled garden by Swedish…