Category: Eye Candy for Today

Jungle Tales, James Jebusa Shannon In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; use the Download or Enlarge links under the image. American artist James Jebusa Shannon, who spent most of his career in England, here presents an intimate scene of his wife reading to their daughter and one of her friends. “Jungle Tales”…

Venus and Mars, Sandro Botticelli Link is to a high resolution downloadble file on Wikipedia, the original is in the National Gallery, London, which has a zoomable version of the image. Two of Botticelli’s paintings, La Primavera and The Birth of Venus, are among the most iconic and recognized in the history of art. Other…

Young Girl Carrying a Pumpkin, Fausto Zonaro Link is to zoomable file on Google Art Project; there is also a downloadable version of that file on Wikimedia Commons. The original is in the Sakıp Sabancı Museum in Istanbul, Turkey. The museum also has a zoomable version of the file, but it looks over-saturated to me.…

Still Life: Basket of Apples, Pear, Walnuts and Knife; Léon Bonvin Original is in the Waters Art Museum, which has both a zoomable and downloadable file. There is also a zoomable image on Google Art Project and a downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, though the one on the Walters’ site is larger. Another beautiful and…

Queen Elizabeth Gate, Paul Sandby Link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project; downloadable high-res file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Yale Center for British Art. Gouache and watercolor on paper, roughly 14 x 18 inches (36 x 47 cm). A wonderful effect of being precise without being stiff. Sandby appears to…