Category: Eye Candy for Today

Rooftop View (Snow effect), Gustave Caillebotte On the Google Art Project. Original is in the Musée d’Orsay. There is also a high res image (7.7mb) and short article on Wikipedia. One of my favorite paintings. By anyone. Ever. You’ll see versions of this image on the web, or even in print, in which the color…

Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore, Joseph Mallord William Turner Another of Turner’s magically luminous excursions into Venice. Turner gives us three worlds here — the city and sky, the reflections in the water, and the surface of the water. Look at what he does with the shadows of of unseen objects in the…

The Voyage of Life: Youth, Thomas Cole On Wikimedia Commons, with link to a higher-resolution image and images of the other three paintings in Cole’s The Voyage of Life series. Original is in the National Gallery of Art, D.C., which has a description of the work as well as the others in the series.

Still Life with a Turkey Pie, Pieter Claesz In the Rijksmuseum. Did the centerpiece just look at me?

Latona and the Lycian Peasants, Jan Brueghel the Elder Ostensibly, this is a scene from classical mythology, showing the goddess Latona getting pissed at the peasants who are blocking her from getting a drink and turning them into frogs. I think it’s pretty obvious, however, that what Brueghel was really interested in was the landscape…

No, not orange peels — Peale’s oranges. Still Life with Oranges, Raphaelle Peale Google Art Project and Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Toledo Museum of Art.