Category: Eye Candy for Today

The Adoration of the Shepherds, Matthias Stom (also called Stomer); oil on canvas, I don’t have size information; link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project, high-res downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Palazzo Madama, Turin. Stom was a 17th century Dutch (or Flemish) painter known for his paintings done in…

Sunlit Winter Landscape, Peder Mørk Mønsted, oil on canvas, 28 x 39 inches (72 x 98 cm); Link is to Bukowski’s auctions, large version can be found here. Another beautiful winter scene Danish painter Peder Mørk Mønsted, who I count as one of my favorite landscape painters. I love the suggestion of a delicate tracery…

Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (also sometimes called “Woman in Gold” or “Lady in Gold”), Gustav Klimt; gold leaf, silver leaf, and oil on canvas; 55 x 55 inches (140 x 140 cm); in the collection of the Neue Galerie, New York. Link is to the file page for the Neue Galerie version of the…

Still life with Orange and Plum, Robert Spear Dunning; oil on canvas, roughly 8 x 10″ (20 x 25 cm); link is to image file page on Wikimedia Commons; as far as I know, the original is in a private collection. 19th century American painter Robert Spear Dunning gives us an elegantly simple painting of…

Pheidias and the Frieze of the Parthenon, Lawrence Alma-Tadema; oil on wood panel, roughly 28 x 44 inches (72 x 110 cm); link is to the file page on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the collection of Birmingham Museums, UK. Also known as Phidias Showing the Frieze of the Parthenon to his Friends, Alma-Tadema’s painting…