Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Thomas Sully
Thomas Sully was an American painter born in England. His family moved the the U.S. in 1792, when he was 9. He studied briefly with Gilbert Stuart, and traveled to London for nine months to study with American expatriate painter Benjamin West. Sully spent most of his career in Philadelphia. He painted such notable figures…
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Eye Candy for Today: Grimshaw's Evening Glow
Evening Glow, John Atkinson Grimshaw Original is in the Yale Center for British Art, which has a couple of large files available for download. Also on Wikimedia Commons.
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Eye Candy for Today: Thomas Girtin drawing
Lichfield Cathederal, Staffordshire, Thomas Girtin On Google Art and Wikimedia Commons. Watercolor with pen and ink over graphite, 15×11″ (38x29cm). Original is in the Yale Center for British Art, which has a really high res download available. Info also here.
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Louis janmot
Anne-François-Louis Janmot was a 19th century French painter who devoted his career to depictions of his deeply held Christian faith. Janmot was also a poet. His most ambitious undertaking was a cycle of 18 paintings and 16 drawings, accompanied by verse, titled Poem of the Soul. You can see the 18 paintings arranged in order…
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3D printed reproductions of historic paintings
You’ve probably seen by now some of the examples of very high resolution art images, on the Google Cultural Institute: Art Project if not elsewhere, and you may have heard of the process of 3D printing, in which ink-jet like printers can print three dimensional physical objects by the computer-controlled application of layers of sprayed…
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Eye Candy for Today: Leonardo drawing
The Head of the Virgin in Three-Quarter View Facing Right, Leonardo da Vinci Black chalk, charcoal and red chalk, 8 x 6 1/8″ ( 20x15cm). In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Click on “Fullscreen” under the image, then use zoom controls or download arrow. It’s not always easy to separate ourselves from the cultural icon…