Category: Eye Candy for Today
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Eye Candy for Today: Simon Vouet drawing
Creusa Carrying the Gods of Troy, Simon Vouet Black and white chalk on paper, 11×8″ (28x20cm). Original is in the National Gallery of Art, D.C. The image on the linked page is zoomable. Click Download for larger images. You have to create a (free) account to download the high-resolution images.
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Eye Candy for Today: Manet still life
Still Life with Melon and Peaches, Edouard Manet A summer table for you on Manet’s birthday. Manet is noted as a figurative painter, and his still life subjects, I think, often get less attention than they deserve. Original is in the National Gallery of Art, D.C. There is a good sized image on Wikipedia.
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Eye Candy for Today: Achenbach’s Snowy Forest
Snowy Forest, Andreas Achenbach Watercolor, 16×24″ (42x62cm). A little reminder for those of us here in the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. that snow can be beautiful. On Google Art Project. High res downloadable on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf.
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Eye Candy for today: Rembrandt’s Good Samaritan
The Good Samaritan, Rembrandt van Rijn OK, so the defecating dog was a source of some amusement back in art school, but once you get past that, this etching is just mind-bogglingly superb — a tour-de-force of drawing and the mediums of etching and drypoint. This was made after one of Rembrandt’s own paintings (though…
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Eye Candy for Today: Gruelle landscape
The Canal Morning Effect, Richard Bruckner Gruelle On Google Art Project. Also on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
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Eye Candy for Today: Froment’s Burning Bush
The Burning Bush, Nicolas Froment, 1476 On Web Gallery of Art. In certain circles in the Middle Ages, they revised the Old Testament story of God appearing to Moses in a burning bush, with Mary and Jesus in the starring roles. (And we think remakes altering the source material is something new…) Foment portrays the…