Category: Eye Candy for Today

Madonna of the Pomegranate, Sandro Botticelli; egg tempera on wood panel, roughly 56 inches (144 cm) in diameter; link is to the file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, which does not appear to have a reproduction of the painting on its website. 15th century Florentine master Alessandro di Mariano…

The Tarn, Lars Hertervig, oil on canvas, roughly 25 x 18 inches (63 x 46 cm); link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the National Museum, Oslo. 19th century Norwegian painter Lars Hertervig portrays the landscape surrouding a “tarn” (a glacially formed lake) in a…

Mariana in the South, John William Waterhouse; oil on canvas, roughly 45 x 29 inches (114 x 74 cm); link is to Wikimedia Commons, original is in a private collection. John William Waterhouse — who is often described as a Pre-Raphaelite painter, but might be more accurately, if awkwardly, classified as a Post Pre-Raphaelite —…

Ligurian Roses, Henry Herbert La Thangue; oil on canvas, roughly 41 x 28 in. (105 x 96 cm), link is to Sotheby’s auction in 2011. I assume the current location of the original is a private collection. Henry La Thangue was an English painter, active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who was…

Sunny Autumn Day by George Inness Oil on canvas, approximately 32 x 42 in. (81 x 106 cm). Link is to the Cleveland Museum of Art, which has the original in its collection and offers both a zoomable and downloadable version of the image. It’s easy to see the visual drama of the light and…