Category: Eye Candy for Today

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…

The Magpie, Claude Monet Beautifully direct and painterly, The Magpie is the best known of Monet’s numerous snow scenes. On Google Art Project, also in high-res on Wikimedia Commons (4.7mb). Original is in the Musée d’Orsay.

The Adoration of the Kings (Monforte Altar), Hugo van der Goes On Google Art Project. Also high-res version on Wikipedia, and on Wikimedia Commons with selected details. Article on Wikipedia. Original is in the Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.

Overlooking the Valley, Edward Willis Redfield Redfield was one of the major figures in Pennsylvania Impressionism, painting in and around New Hope, PA and Lambertville, NJ. Redfield loved to paint in the winter. All of his paintings are highly textural, but his snow scenes in particular are fascinatingly three dimensional — slathered with rills, troughs…

View of Ornans, Gustave Courbet Painted in the 1850s. Just in case we’re tempted to think the broken color and painterly surfaces of Impressionism sprang from nowhere. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Click on Fullscreen, then zoom or download arrow.