Category: Eye Candy for Today
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Eye Candy for Today: Hubert Robert architectural fantasy
The Bathing Pool, Hubert Robert In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Another bit of 18th century idealized landscape and architectural fantasy from Hubert Robert. Ready to trade in your gym membership?
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Eye Candy for Today: John Brown’s Cave of Dionysius
The Cave of Dionysius, Syracuse; John Brown In the Morgan Library and Museum, NY. Use the zoom feature or download link. Pen and brown ink, approximately 18 x 11 inches (46 x 27 cm). A wonderful sense of light and texture is carried throughout the drawing. It’s a fascinating composition in which the subject, though…
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Eye Candy for Today: William Blake Richmond’s Venus and Anchises
Venus and Anchises, William Blake Richmond On Google Art project, downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. Kind of odd the way Anchises is shoved up into the corner of the background, almost as though the artist just wanted to get him out of the way so he could…
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Landscape with a Village on the Outskirts of Rome Mariano Barbasán
Landscape with a Village on the Outskirts of Rome, Mariano Barbasán On Google Art Project, downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Fundación Banco Santander, Madrid. I love the bright, sun-splashed feeling of the walls and water, and the textural, painterly quality overall.
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Eye Candy for Today: Edmund Leighton’s The Accolade
The Accolade, Edmund Blair Leighton Image file on Wikipedia, from here. For more, see my posts on Edmund Blair Leighton, and Eye Candy: Edmund Leighton’s neighbor.
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Eye Candy for Today: John Hamilton Mortimer’s Frontispiece from Fifteen Etchings
Frontispiece (from Fifteen Etchings Dedicated to Sir Joshua Reynolds), John Hamilton Mortimer In the Metropolitan Museum of Art; image area is roughly 4 x 10 in. (35 x 25 cm). Whenever I see etchings like this, I’m reminded how much I love the character of etched lines; though similar in many ways, so different from…