Category: Eye Candy for Today
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Eye Candy for Today: Ingres graphite portrait
Portrait of Mme Adolphe-Marcellin Defresne, née Sophie Leroy, graphite drawing by Jean-Aguste-Dominique Ingres. I love how casual the rest of the drawing seems compared to the carefully rendered face. From the Morgan Library and Museum. More here. Use the controls under the image for Zoom and Full Screen.
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Eye Candy for Today: Rijckaert
Landscape with Satyrs, attributed to Marten Rijckaert. In the National Gallery, London. Use controls at right of image to launch full screen viewer and zoom in.
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Eye Candy for Today: Sorolla
La Siesta en el Jardin by Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida, in a nice large image file on Wikimedia Commons. Title page here.
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Eye Candy for Today: Tiepolo
“Allegory of the Planets and Continents” by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. Preparatory painting for the decoration of the large staircase ceiling of the Residenz of Carl Philipp von Greiffenklau. In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Click “Fullscreen” and zoom or download. If you download, in your image editor, rotate the image to see…
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Eye Candy for Today: Rembrandt landscape
The Stone Bridge, Rembrandt, on Google Art Project. Mouse over to use zoom feature at lower right. From the Rijksmuseum.
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Eye Candy for Today: Meléndez
The Afternoon Meal (La Merienda), by Luis Egidio Meléndez. On Metropolitan Museum of Art. View Fullscreen and choose zoom or Download (lower right).