Category: Eye Candy for Today
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Eye Candy for Today: Tarbell’s Across the Room
Across the Room, Edmund Charles Tarbell. In Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use Fullscreen link and Download arrow. See my previous posts on Edmund Tarbell, and here. He must have considered this a “sketch”, but… wow.
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Eye Candy for Today: Turner’s Ulysses
Ulysses deriding Polyphemus — Homer’s Odyssey by Joseph Mallord William Turner In the National Gallery, London. Use fullscreen and zoom controls to right of the image.
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Eye Candy for Today: View of the Hague, and study by Cornelis Springer
by Cornelis Springer, and . In the Rijksmuseum; original pages and . In many ways, I like the wonderfully painterly study more than the finished painting, though both are beautiful.
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Eye Candy for Today: Bierstadt’s California Spring
California Spring by Albert Bierstadt. On Google Art Project, click image for zoom controls. Original is in de Young Museum in San Francisco.
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Eye Candy for Today: Jan Jansz Treck still life
Still Life with a Pewter Flagon and Two Ming Bowls, Jan Jansz Treck. Faded, but still beautiful. The bowls are an odd color because the artist used a type of smalt (cobalt glass) blue that was not lightfast. In the National Gallery, London. Use fullscreen and zoom icons to right of the image.
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Eye Candy for Today: Kawase Hasui woodblock print
Need to cool off? Shiba (No) Zojo-ji, color woodblock print by Kawase Hasui. On Met Museum. Use Fullscreen link and download arrow.