Category: Eye Candy for Today
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Eye Candy for Today: Whistler’s Purple And Rose
Purple and Rose: The Lange Leizen of the Six Marks, James Abbott McNeill Whistler On Google Cultural Institute: Art Project. Also visible as a single large image on Wikimedia Commons (5mb). Original is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. I stop to be stunned by this beautiful painting every time I visit the museum. I…
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Eye Candy for Today: Ingres portrait of Princesse de Broglie
Joséphine-Éléonore-Marie-Pauline de Galard de Brassac de Béarn (1825–1860), Princesse de Broglie, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres In addition to dazzling the eye with his handling of face, figure, fabric and jewelry, Ingres leaves no doubt that he has nailed the sitter’s likeness. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use “Fullscreen” link and download arrow.
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Eye Candy for Today: Rørbye’s window
View from the Artist’s Window, Martinus Rørbye In the Statens Museum for Kunst, National Gallery of Denmark. High-resolution image here.
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Eye Candy for Today: Corvi’s Allegory of Painting
Allegory of Painting, Domenico Corvi Corvi, an Italian Baroque painter, has given us a delicate rendered pean to the artist’s pursuit. The mask on her head represents the illusionistic qualities of art. In the Walters Art Museum. Click “Explore Object” in the upper left of the image for zoomable view.
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Eye Candy for Today: Bouguereau’s Spinner
The Spinner, William-Adolphe Bouguereau; larger version here Somehow, despite my fondness for nineteenth century academic art, I can’t get all goggle-eyed and worshipful of Bouguereau the way they do over at the Art Renewal Center. Neither do I jump on the bandwagon of reviling him as facile and shallow, or as an enemy of the…