Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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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…
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Arthur Parton
Arthur Parton was an American landscape painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was a member of the Hudson River School, though there is less information available about him online than many of the other painters associated with that school. He studied under William Trost Richards at the Pennsylvania Academy of…
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Adoration of the Shepherds, Nicolas Maes
Adoration of the Shepherds, Nicolas Maes Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Getty Museum. The Getty’s version of the image looks dark to me, as often seems to be the case with museums’ online representation of their collections. The Google Art Project version,…
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The Nativity, Albrecht Durer
The Nativity, Albrecht Durer Engraving, in the collection of the national Gallery of Art, DC, which has both zoomable and downloadable files. There is also a zoomable file on the Google Art Project and a downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. In this beautiful early 16th century engraving by one of the great masters of printmaking,…