Category: Eye Candy for Today
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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…
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Eye Candy for Today: drawing by Jean “Moebius” Giraud
Drawing by Jean “Moebius” Giraud From the GeekDraw article marking his passing. (See also my post: Jean Giraud (Moebius) 1938-2012). I don’t know if this has a title, many Moebius drawings do not. I think this one is old enough that it was done with ink and watercolor, rather than digital. One of the things…
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Eye Candy for Today: Jean-Baptiste Greuze chalk drawing
Head of a Young Woman, Jean-Baptiste Greuze Red chalk on paper. 16 x 12 inches (41 x 31 cm), 18th century. In the Morgan Library and Museum. Use download link under image, or zoom version. Greuze has drawn an understated but elegant and remarkably strong study. The hands and bonnet are quickly realized, but the…