Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Birds of Paradise
Some beautiful illustrations, selected and cleaned up for our viewing pleasure by BibliOdyssey editor peacay, from Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux de Paradis et des Rolliers, suivie de celle des Toucans et des Barbus by François Levaillant and Jacques Barraband. [Via the Drawn archives]
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Eye Candy for Today: Feeding the Dog, Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
Feeding the Dog, Giovanni Battista Piazzetta Chalk on paper, highlighted with white. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Frank Mason
Frank Herbert Mason was an American artist and highly regarded teacher noted for his reverence for the work and techniques of the old masters. This was evident in his own work and teaching, as well as in his determined efforts to oppose modern restoration and cleaning of great artwork that a growing number of artists…
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Eye Candy for Today: Jean-Baptiste Greuze ink and wash drawing
Madame Greuze on a chaise lounge with her dog, Jean-Baptiste Greuze Rijksmuseum, ink and wash over chalk on paper, 13×18″ (34x47cm) In this seemingly casual but beautifully realized drawing of his wife relaxing with her dog, Greuze achieves a subtle portrayal of light and form — a reminder of the surprising versatility of the humble…
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Vasily Polenov
Vasily Polenov was one of the remarkable group of Russian painters known as the Peredvizhniki, whose members included such luminaries as Ivan Kramskoy, Ilya Repin, Ivan Shishkin, Vasily Surikov, Valentin Serov, Alexei Savrasov, Issac Levitan and others (see my article on Painting.Answers.com). Polenov focused on landscapes and religious scenes. He brought to to both a…
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Eye Candy for Today: Van Dyck's Marchesa Balbi
Marchesa Balbi, Sir Anthony van Dyck On the Google Cultural Institute: Art Project. Also available on Wikimedia Commons. The original is in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. I’m not always fond of Van Dyck’s more stylized poses, but here, in a reserved, classical portrait of a member of the Geonese aristocracy, Van…