Category: Eye Candy for Today
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Eye Candy for Today: Rubens’ portrait of wife, son and self
Rubens, His Wife Lelena Fourment, and Their Son Frans, Peter Paul Rubens This painting, showing the artist with his second wife and their son, is part affection, part pride and part advertisement for the artist’s prowess as a painter. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use Fullscreen link and zoom or download arrow.
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Eye Candy For Today: Roesen still life
Still Life: Flowers and Fruit, Severin Roesen Somehow, Roesen, one of America’s premier 19th century still life painters, manages to make this arrangement look simultaneously lurid, bizarre and naturalistic. I love the handling of the plums and the little droplets of water scattered about. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use “Fullscreen” link and zoom…
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Eye Candy for Today: Monet’s Pave de Chailly
Pave de Chailly, Claude Monet An early painting by Monet of the road from Chailly to Fontainebleau, painted prior to the development of the broken color Impressionist style for which he is best known. I love this period of Monet’s work. On WikiPaintings. Original is in the Musée d’Orsay. Compare this to another canvas titled…
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Eye Candy for Today: Bilibin’s Vasilisa
Vasilisa the Beautiful at the Hut of Baba Yaga, by Ivan Bilibin (larger but darker here) One of Bilibin’s wonderful series of illustrations for the classic Russian folktale.
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Eye Candy for Today: Lerolle’s Organ Rehearsal
The Organ Rehearsal, Henry Lerolle In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use Fullscreen link and zoom or download arrow.
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Eye Candy for Today: Van Dyck double portrait
Lady Elizabeth Thimbelby and her Sister, Anthony van Dyck In the National Gallery, London. Use fullscreen and zoom controls to the right of the image. You can zoom in even further than I have here. Van Dyck dazzles with his masterful rendering of fabric, flesh and hair. I love the way he has positioned and…