Category: Eye Candy for Today

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.

Still Life, Henri Fantin-Latour Another Fantin-Latour-de-force (sorry, couldn’t resist) still life in which the 19th century French master serves up more of his yummy, painterly style. Link above is to Wikipedia, from which you can access a reasonably high-resolution file. Original is in the National Gallery of Art, D.C.