Category: High-res Art Images
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Eye Candy for Today: John Singer Sargent landscape
Simplon Pass, John Singer Sargent, oil on canvas, roughly 28 x 37 inches ( 72 x 93 cm), in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, DC, which has both a zoomable and downloadable version of the high resolution image. The more I study John Singer Sargent’s paintings the more I’m knocked out by…
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Eye Candy for Today: Claude Mellan single line engraving
Face of Christ on St. Veronica’s Cloth (alternately: Sudarium of Saint Veronica), Claude Mellan, engraving on paper, roughly 17 x 13 in. (43 x 31 cm); in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, (click on image to zoom, click small down arrow to download) This remarkable engraving by 17th century French engraver and…
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Same Energy – image similarity search with Deep Learning
In my previous post on Bing image search vs. Google, Yahoo & Tin Eye, I mentioned the “visual search” or “search by image” features of the major search engines, in which a reference image is the basis of the search rather than text. Bing and Google will search first for additional copies of the same…
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Bing image search vs. Google, Yahoo & Tin Eye
As you might imagine, in the course of writing Lines and Colors I do a fair bit of searching out art images on the web — whenever possible searching for the largest examples of images of artwork that I can find. One of the ways I do this is to use the “image search” features…
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Eye Candy for Today: Johan Christian Dahl landscape
View From Stalheim, Johan Christian Dahl, oil on canvas, 75 x 97 inches (190 x 246 cm). Link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project; (very) high resolution file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the National Museum of Art and Design, Oslo. 19th century Norwegian painter Johan Christian Dahl’s large scale view of…
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Eye Candy for Today: Tarbell’s Preparing for the Matinee
Preparing for the Matinee, Edmund Charles Tarbell; oil on canvas, roughly 45 x 35″ (114 x 89 cm); link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable (very) high resolution file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Indianapolis Museum of Art, which also has zoomable and downloadable versions. Like other members of the…