Category: High-res Art Images
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Google Art Project changes
Let me start by saying that I have been a fan of the Google Art Project pretty much since it’s inception in February of 2011 — because I love, love, love high resolution art images — just love ’em! (love ’em!), and the Google Art Project has delivered them — in ever increasing numbers. Admittedly…
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New website for National Gallery of Art
The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. is one of the great art museums in the U.S., and a national treasure on which I am happy to see my tax dollars spent. The NGA has long had a web presence, but it has never been quite what those of us who admire the museum’s…
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Eye Candy for Today: Van Dyck double portrait
Lady Elizabeth Thimbelby and her Sister, Anthony van Dyck In the National Gallery, London. Use fullscreen and zoom controls to the right of the image. You can zoom in even further than I have here. Van Dyck dazzles with his masterful rendering of fabric, flesh and hair. I love the way he has positioned and…
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Eye Candy for Today: Van Walscapelle still life
Still Life with Fruit and Oysters, Jacob van Walscapelle Show-off. From Museo Lázaro Galdiano on Google Art Project. Click in lower right of image for zoom controls.
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Rodin’s Gates of Hell
The Gates of Hell was an ambitious and astonishing work by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin that was never realized in his lifetime. The sculpture exists in two versions, one of which was cast in bronze posthumously from reconstructed plaster casts. The work stands almost 30 feet (6m) high and 12 feet (4m) wide, with…
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Museo Sorolla on Google Art Project
The Google Art Project, which I have written about previously, continues to add to its impressive list of participating museums. Every once in a while, something truly delightful pops up in the “Recently Added” section of the Collections page, and the Museuo Sorolla, a museum dedicated to the works of brilliant Spanish painter Joaquín Sorolla…