Category: Eye Candy for Today
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Eye Candy for Today: Caligula’s Palace by Turner
Caligula’s Palace and Bridge, Joseph Mallord William Turner On Google Art Project. High-res downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Tate Britain. It’s paintings like this that earned Turner the appellation “Painter of Light”.
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Eye Candy for Today: etching after Burne-Jones
The Cumaean Sibyl, etching and drypoint by Charles-Albert Waltner from a drawing by Edward Burne-Jones. An example of an etching designed by one artist and executed by another, as was common practice in the 19th century. Original is in the Metropolitan Museum of art. Image size is roughly 17×7 inches (44x17cm).
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Eye Candy for Today: Fanny Brate interior
A Day of Celebration, Fanny Brate Original is in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.
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Eye Candy for Today: Vermeer’s Delft
View of Delft, Johannes Vermeer On Wikipedia, original is in the Mauritshuis. Sometimes overlooked among the enigmatic Dutch master’s oeuvre of striking paintings are Vermeer’s three known landscapes (or more properly, cityscapes), only two of which are existing: The Little Street and View of Delft. Aside from the simple fact that View of Delft a…
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Eye Candy for Today: William R. Leigh portrait
Sophie Hunter Colston by William R. Leigh In the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. In addition to the larger image on the SAAM site, there is another image on Wikimdeia Commons. Though the latter is cropped, slightly soft in focus, and has a bit of glare, I’ve used it for the detail crop…
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Eye Candy for Today: Helen Searle still life
Still Life with Fruit and Champagne, Helen Searle In the Smithsonian American Art Museum. There is a zoomable version on the museum’s site along with an enlargement. The image above was taken from Wikimedia Commons. Though slightly out of focus, it’s larger as a downloadable file, and I think the more restrained color may actually…