Category: Eye Candy for Today
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Eye Candy for Today: Samuel Palmer’s waterfalls
Pistil Mawddach, North Wales; watercolor and gouache, Yale Center for British Art; The Waterfalls, Pistil Mawddach, North Wales, oil, Tate, Britain; Samuel Palmer Though both are striking, I find 19th century artist Samuel Palmer’s watercolor and gouache study of this dramatic landscape even more compelling than his finished oil. The watercolor is 17×21 inches (44x53cm),…
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Eye Candy for Today: Carl Blechen Italian landscape
Gorge near Amalfi, Carl Blechen Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin. Early 19th century German painter Carl Blechen created series of studio works based on a sketching trip he had taken to Italy a few years prior. Here, he gives…
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Eye Candy for Today: Bruegel pen and ink landscape
Landscape with the Penitence of Saint Jerome, Pieter Bruegel the Elder In the National Gallery of Art, D.C, with zoomable version (also downloadable if you create a free account). There is an additional zoomable image on the Google Art Project and a smaller downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons. The nominal penitent saint is probably the…
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Eye Candy for Today: Watanabe Seitei ink painting
Birds of a Flowering Branch, Watanabe Seitei In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use zoom or download icons below the image. Roughly 14×11 inches (36x27cm), ink and color on silk. The listing doesn’t say what kind of “color”. The white flowers look to me like opaque watercolor, but I don’t know. The…
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Pronk Still Life with Holbein Bowl, Nautilus Cup, Glass Goblet and Fruit Dish
Pronk Still Life with Holbein Bowl, Nautilus Cup, Glass Goblet and Fruit Dish, Willem Kalf Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project, downloadable high-res file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Statens Museum for Kunst, National Gallery of Denmark, which also has a high-res downloadable file. “Pronk” still life means “splendid”, or…
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Eye Candy for Today: Monet’s Still Life with Flowers and Fruit
Still Life with Flowers and Fruit, Claude Monet In the Getty Museum, also on Google Art Project and Wikimedia Commons (also here). The Getty page offers a downloadble version that is very high resolution (60mb). The Getty version seems unnecessarily dark to me (I haven’t found museums to be particularly reliable when it comes to…