Category: Eye Candy for Today
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Eye Candy for Today: Fantin-Latour asters and fruit
Asters and Fruit on a Table, Henri Fantin-Latour Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use Fullscreen link and download arrow. I find it fascinating that Fantin-Latour has de-emphasized the glass vase — likely a star part of the composition in the hands of many other artists — and emphasized instead the textural surface of both the flowers…
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Eye Candy for Today: Grimshaw's Evening Glow
Evening Glow, John Atkinson Grimshaw Original is in the Yale Center for British Art, which has a couple of large files available for download. Also on Wikimedia Commons.
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Eye Candy for Today: Thomas Girtin drawing
Lichfield Cathederal, Staffordshire, Thomas Girtin On Google Art and Wikimedia Commons. Watercolor with pen and ink over graphite, 15×11″ (38x29cm). Original is in the Yale Center for British Art, which has a really high res download available. Info also here.
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Eye Candy for Today: Leonardo drawing
The Head of the Virgin in Three-Quarter View Facing Right, Leonardo da Vinci Black chalk, charcoal and red chalk, 8 x 6 1/8″ ( 20x15cm). In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Click on “Fullscreen” under the image, then use zoom controls or download arrow. It’s not always easy to separate ourselves from the cultural icon…
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Eye Candy for Today: Nathaniel Bacon's fruit and veggies
Cookmaid with Still Life of Vegetables and Fruit, Nathaniel Bacon On the Google Cultural Institute: Art Project; click in upper right of image for zoom controls. Original is in the Tate. Yummy.
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Eye Candy for Today: Frederico Zuccaro drawing
Taddeo Drawing by Moonlight in Calabrese’s House, Frederico Zuccaro Pen and brown ink with wash, roughly 17×7 inches (43x18cm). Frederico Zuccaro’s drawing of his brother, Taddeo, drawing Rome and the Tiber by moonlight. I love the indication of additional drawings to the left and right, apparently on the outside of the shutters, or on paper…