Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Constable’s oil sketches
The brilliant English landscape painter John Constable, along with his contemporary J.M.W. Turner, are sometimes viewed as precursors to French Impressionism, and, by extension, the generations of modern painting that followed. I think it’s even more interesting to consider the line from Constable through the outdoor paintings of Eugene Boudin, the Barbizon school, the Impressionists…
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Brooklyn Museum on Google Art Project
The Brooklyn Museum, as I reported back in 2010, is a terrific and underrated museum of art and artifacts that exists in the shadow of larger and better known museums in Manhattan. The museum’s collection contains superb examples of American and European painting, some of which you can now view online in glorious detail by…
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Eye Candy for Today: Tiepolo
“Allegory of the Planets and Continents” by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. Preparatory painting for the decoration of the large staircase ceiling of the Residenz of Carl Philipp von Greiffenklau. In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Click “Fullscreen” and zoom or download. If you download, in your image editor, rotate the image to see…
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Vermeer’s “Woman in Blue Reading a Letter” restored
We have only thirty four, perhaps thirty five, acknowledged paintings by the remarkable 17th century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer, so when one of his works is restored, revealing subtlties of color and detail not seen in centuries, it’s an occasion. It’s particularly noteworthy when the painting is one of Vermeer’s most beautiful and subtle works.…
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“Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit” at the Cincinnati Art Museum
“Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit” is a beautiful show about the terrific and under-appreciated turn of the 20th Century painter. It is currently on view at the Cincinnati Art Museum, where it will be on display until September 9, 2012. Unfortunately, the museum does not have much in the the way of online resources related…
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Eye Candy for Today: Rembrandt landscape
The Stone Bridge, Rembrandt, on Google Art Project. Mouse over to use zoom feature at lower right. From the Rijksmuseum.