Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Christen Købke Autumn Landscape
Autumn Landscape. Frederiksborg Castle in the Middle Distance; Christen Købke Link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen. Danish painter Christen Købke invites you to step into his late fall landscape to view the castle beyond the trees. I find…
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Eye Candy for Today: Fantin-Latour – Still Life with Carafe, Flowers and Fruit
Still Life with a Carafe, Flowers and Fruit; Henri Fantin-Latour Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Somewhat larger than most of Fantin-Latour’s still lifes, this is a prime example of his beautiful approach. Most striking here, I…
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Henry Ossawa Tanner (update)
Henry Ossawa Tanner was a superb American painter, active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who I first wrote about in 2012. Since then, I’m happy to report, online resources for viewing his work have expanded considerably, notably on The Athenaeum and Wikimedia Commons. You can find additional resources through Artcyclopedia and on…
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Eye Candy for Today: Canaletto’s Porta Portello, Padua
The Porta Portello, Padua; Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) Another architectural tour-de-force by the 18th century Italian master Canaletto – times two. The painting above in the top six images is in the National Gallery of Art, DC. In the bottom four images is another version, with the same perspective but with different figures and harsher…
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James C. Christensen, 1942-2017
James C. Christensen, a highly regarded illustrator and gallery artist who worked in the vein of fantasy, spiritual inspiration, and works tinged with the flavor of Renaissance portraits, died on January 8, 2017. Though there is a jameschristensen.com, it’s a commercial gallery’s site, and the images are watermarked (though not terribly so). A better source…
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Eye Candy for Today: Antonio Mauro Perspective Design for a Stage Set
Perspective Design for a Stage Set of an Italian Cityscape, Antonio Mauro II Pen and black ink, brown and gray wash and leadpoint layout lines, roughly 10 x 14 in. (27 x 36 cm). In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, use the Enlarge or Download links under their image. This beautifully crafted…