Category: High-res Art Images
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New online collection from the Indianapolis Museum of Art
A number of art museums have been revitalizing their websites as they begin to realize what a powerful tool they are for public relations, as well as for their theoretical mission of education. Not all can aspire to the gold standard set a few years ago by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but many museums…
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Eye Candy for Today: JMW Turner etching and mezzotint
Bridge and Cows (Liber Studiorum, part I, plate 2), Joseph Mallord William Turner In the Metropolitan Museum of Art; use the zoom or download links under the image. Part of a series of etchings Turner produced, categorized to illustrate the various kinds of landscape (in this case “P” for “Pastoral”), this beautiful etching and mezzotint…
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Eye Candy for Today: Rembrandt self-portrait at the age of 53
Self-portrait, Rembrandt van Rijn Rembrandt painted this remarkable self-portrait in 1659, after he had suffered frorm personal financial collapse. Much can be read into his expression, but the painting itself is a triumph. As he had done on other occasions, Rembrandt posed himself in the manner of a work by a previous master, in this…
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Eye Candy for Today: Courbet flowers
Bouquet of Flowers in a Vase, Gustave Courbet On Google Art Project. Original is in the Getty Museum, which offers a 13mb high-resolution file. The version of the Google Art Project file available on Wikimedia Commons is almost absurdly gigantic, at 7,000×9,500 pixels and 30mb in file size — just in case you want to…
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Artists and Amateurs: Etching in Eighteenth-Century France
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in new York has a wonderful practice of periodically assembling small, non-blockbuster exhibitions of works on paper from their enormously deep collections. These often go unnoticed in the press, but can surprise and delight visitors to the museum who come across them on their way to something else in the…
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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.