Category: Eye Candy for Today

La Siesta en el Jardin by Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida, in a nice large image file on Wikimedia Commons. Title page here.

“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…

The Stone Bridge, Rembrandt, on Google Art Project. Mouse over to use zoom feature at lower right. From the Rijksmuseum.

The Afternoon Meal (La Merienda), by Luis Egidio Meléndez. On Metropolitan Museum of Art. View Fullscreen and choose zoom or Download (lower right).

Sunlight and Shadow by Albert Bierstadt. Form the collection of the De Young Museum, on Google Art Project. (Use zoom control at lower right.)