Category: Eye Candy for Today
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Eye Candy for Today: Cornelis Springer’s St Laurens
Delftse Vaart and the St Laurens church in Rotterdam, Cornelis Springer Image on Wikimedia Commons. I don’t know the location of the original. I assume it’s in a private collection, as the painting came up for auction through Sotheby’s in 2012. I love these 19th century Dutch cityscapes by Springer; they’re marvels of texture and…
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Eye Candy for Today: Cortès Parisian street scene
La Republique, Edouard-Léon Cortès On Galerie Ary Jan. In their similarity to each other, and those of Antoine Blanchard, Eugene Galien-Laloue and others, you could call these Belle Époque Parisian street scenes formulaic — but it’s a formula, that when well done, I don’t tire of. Often set in the rain or overcast, with blue-gray…
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Eye Candy for Today: Wijnand Nuijen landscape
River Landscape with Ruin, Wijnand Nuijen In the Rijksmuseum. I’m frequently delighted by how painterly, and essentially modern, many early 19th century Dutch landscapes are.
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Eye Candy for Today: Tissot’s Holyday
Holyday, James Tissot Sometimes listed as “The Picnic”. In the Tate Britain. Use Full Screen link under the image (or full size here). While today is not a Holyday (holiday), it is Tissot’s birthday, a nice day to welcome fall foliage and celebrate a wonderful and underrated painter.
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Eye Candy for Today: Peder Mønsted forest landscape
Skogslandskap, Peder Mørk Mønsted On Wikimedia Commons, I don’t know the location of the original, but I know it passed through Bukowski’s Auctions in the recent past, so I assume it’s in a private collection (not mine — sigh). I think the title can be translated as “forest landscape”. I never tire of Mønsted’s beautifully…
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Eye Candy for Today: Tiepolo’s Banquet of Cleopatra
The Banquet of Cleopatra, Giambattista Tiepolo On Google Art Project; high-resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the National Gallery of Victoria. In telling Pliny’s story of the competition between Cleopatra and Marc Antony to put on the most extravagant feast — the culmination of which is Cleopartra dissolving one of her priceless…