Category: Eye Candy for Today
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Eye Candy for Today: Girolamo Muziano landscape drawing
Rocky Landscape with a Waterfall, Girolamo Muziano Pen and brown ink, roughly 19×15″ (48x38cm). Link is to the Getty Museum, which has the original in their collection and both a zoomable and downloadable version on their site. The downloadable version can be gotten at high resolution and a 32MB file size. There is also a…
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Eye Candy for Today: Meléndez still life with plums
Still life with plums, figs, bread, keg, jug and other containers, Luis Egidio Meléndez Link is to a downloadable high-resolution image on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Museo del Prado. This is another entrancing and deceptively simple still life by the 18th century Spanish master. I have said that my favorite still life painter…
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Eye Candy for Today: Bernardo Bellotto Venice cityscape
The Campo di SS. Giovanni e Paolo, Venice; Bernardo Bellotto Link is to the original in the National Gallery of Art, DC, which has both a zoomable and downloadable version. There is also a zoomable version on Google Art Project. Following in the footsteps of his more famous uncle and teacher, Canaletto, Bernardo Bellotto created…
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Eye Candy for Today: Gabriel Metsu portrait
Portrait of Lucia Wijbrants, Gabriel Metsu Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable high-resolution file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. This splendid 17th century portrait by Metsu was for a long time known simply as “Portrait of a Woman”, but the Minneapolis Institute of Arts website…
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Eye Candy for Today: Louis Buvelot’s Yarra Flats
Yarra Flats, Louis Buvelot Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the National Gallery of Victoria, which also has a zoomable version. 19th century Australian artist Louis Buvelot was influential on the generation of Australian painters who followed, including those known as the “Australian Impressionists”,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Monet’s Parc Monceau
The Parc Monceau, Claude Monet In the Metropolitan Museum of Art; use the Download or Enlarge links under the image on their page. This painting, one of several painted in an urban park in the heart of Paris, is one of my favorites from Monet’s period of painting in his signature style — what might…