Category: Eye Candy for Today
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Eye Candy for Today: Elioth Gruner’s Spring Frost
Spring Frost, Elioth Gruner Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Like many of the artists in Australia who were impressed by the approach of French Impressionism as its influence spread from Europe to other continents, Australian artist…
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Eye Candy for Today: François-Louis Français landscape
A Stream through a Dense Forest, François-Louis Français Watercolor and gouache with pen and ink; roughly 18×14″ (46x34cm). Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; original is in the National Gallery of Art, DC, which also has a zoomable version as well as downloadable images (free registration required for largest file size). This…
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Eye Candy for Today: Romà Ribera’s De soirée
De soirée (“Evening”), Romà Ribera Link is to zoomable version on the Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya – MNAC, Barcelona. Beautifully economical and richly painterly, Ribera’s portrayal of a young woman engaged in simple activity is a quiet captured moment. It’s interesting to…
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The Resurrection by Cecco del Caravaggio (Francesco Buoneri)
The Resurrection, Cecco del Caragaggio (Francesco Buoneri) Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Art Institute of Chicago. One of Caravaggio’s most important assistants and pupils was known as Cecco del Caragaggio, more recently identified as Francesco Buoneri. Though a number of works are…
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Eye Candy for Today: Frederico Zuccaro ink and wash drawing
Taddeo Copying Raphael’s Frescoes in the Loggia of the Villa Farnesina, Where He is Also Represented Asleep, Frederico Zuccaro Pen and brown ink with brown wash; roughly 17×8″ (42×17 cm). Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Getty Museum which also has a much…
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Eye Candy for Today: John William North’s Spring
Spring, John William North Watercolor and gouache on paper; roughly 11×17″ (29x43cm); in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The delicate value contrasts and stippled tones of North’s watercolor give a wonderful sense of those early spring days in which both the atmosphere and the land seem ripe with the promise of future…