Category: Eye Candy for Today

The Annunciation, with Saint Emidius, Carlo Crivelli. In the National Gallery, London. Use the fullscreen and zoom tools to the right of the image. There is also a large image on Wikimedia. The early 15th century saw both linear geometrical perspective construction and the medium of oil painting come into common use in European painting…

The Choirstalls in the Mainz Cathedral by Adolph Menzel. Watercolor and gouache. 8 7/8 x 11 3/8″ (22.6 x 28.9cm). In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use the “Fullscreen” link below the image and then zoom or download arrow.

Sadko in the Underwater Kingdom, Ilya Repin. Link is to large image on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg. Sadko is a medieval Russian epic. [Note: full size version might be considered mildly NSFW.]

Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian (Tiziano Vecellio). Gods, mortals, action, romance, leopards, snakes and severed deer heads! (Not to mention a beautifully dramatic landscape and delicate foreground flowers rendered with botanical accuracy.) [Addendum: not to mention lots of genuine Ultramarine Blue, made from a semi-precious stone more costly by weight than gold. See the full…

The Mouth of a Cave by Hubert Robert. In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Click “Fullscreen” and use zoom or download arrow.