Category: Eye Candy for Today

After Dinner, Bernard Hall Link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project. Downloadable high-resolution image on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Art Gallery of South Australia. Any one of the smaller groupings here would have made a superb still life — the bowl and lemon, the decanter and creamer, the teacup and apertif…

Roses, Abbott Handerson Thayer On Google Art Project. Downloadable high-res image on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Smithsonian American Art Museum. I’ve had the pleasure of seeing this piece in person; if you’re at the Smithsonian, it’s worth seeking out (not that there aren’t other treasures aplenty in the same collection.) According to The…

Girl in a White Kimono, George Hendrik Breitner In the Rijksmuseum. One of several paintings Breitner did of young women posing languidly in kimonos. See the Artcyclopedia entry for more resources on Breitner.

The Tower of Babel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder Bruegel’s depiction of the Biblical story of the attempt to build a tower to the heavens is a remarkable evocation of scale and a stunning tour de force of perspective and detail. Bruegel has placed his tower, as it spirals upward, against the backdrop of a contemporary…

The Icebergs, Frederic Edwin Church On Wikimedia Commons, larger here. Original is in the Dallas Museum of Art. There is an article about the painting on the Wall Street Journal. You can get a sense of the scale of the painting in this photo from Steve Doherty’s blog. Just in case you haven’t seen enough…