Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Turner & the Sea
The great English landscape painter Joseph Mallord William Turner, known rightfully as “the painter of light”, may just as well be called a painter of seascapes — so often did he return to the subjects of ships and the sea. Turner portrayed the sea in all of its moods, but preferred his seas shaken and…
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The Adoration of the Kings (Monforte Altar)
The Adoration of the Kings (Monforte Altar), Hugo van der Goes On Google Art Project. Also high-res version on Wikipedia, and on Wikimedia Commons with selected details. Article on Wikipedia. Original is in the Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
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Winter Solstice 2013
A few winter images to mark the winter solstice today. If you want more, revisit Irene Gallo’s “Picturing Winter: A Solstice Celebration” from 2011. Images above: John Henry Twachtman, Gustave Courbet, Caspar David Friedrich, Antoine Blanchard, Albert Bierstadt, Ivan Bilibin, Neil Welliver, Alphonse Mucha, Ivan Shishkin, Maxfield Parrish, Andrew Wyeth, N.C. Wyeth, Toshi Yoshida)
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Piranesi’s Imaginary Prisons at Princeton University Art Museum
Carceri (“Prisons”) is a series of 14 (in a later state, 16) copperplate etchings by the 18th century Venetian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi. These are wonderfully detailed architectural fantasies, full of the suggestion of dramatic scale and lavished with fascinating details. What appears to be a complete set of the 16 plates in their later…
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Eye Candy for Today: Vigée Le Brun portrait
Portrait of Marie Gabrielle de Gramont, Duchesse de Caderousse, Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun On Google Art Project, also available on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. I think Vigée Le Brun likely “sweetened” her portraits a bit — flattering the sitter — but I’m a complete sucker for it. I just…
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Self-portraits #9, some contemporary artists
A round of contemporary painters… (Images above: David A. Leffel, Koo Schadler, Sadie J. Valeri, Anthony J. Ryder, Jeremy Lipking, Warren Chang, Lea Colie Wight, Daniel E. Greene)