Category: High-res Art Images
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The Path of Nature: French Paintings from the Whitney Collection, 1785-1850
The Path of Nature: French Paintings from the Whitney Collection, 1785-1850 is the title of an exhibition currently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It includes works by well known and lesser known artists from the period. Though I haven’t been able to see the show, I have seen some of the…
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Eye Candy for Today: Man Writing a Letter, Gabriel Metsu
Gabriel Metsu (2.6mb image file), from Codart. Original is in the National Gallery of Ireland. It’s astonishing how painterly it appears close up. See my post on Gabriel Metsu.
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Frederic Edwin Church on Google Art Project
The dramatic and often spectacularly large paintings of 19th century American painter Frederic Edwin Church are rich with fascinating details and beautiful handling of his subjects. In addition to painting his sweeping vistas in enough detail that you could easily take multiple sections of them as individual compositions, Church often placed small figures within a…
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Edward Hopper on Met Museum website
Today is the birthday of the American artist Edward Hopper, and a tweet from the Metropolitan Museum of Art this morning reminds us of the wonderful trove of high resolution images on the museum’s website, including several paintings and a selection of Hopper’s often overlooked etchings.
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Google Art Project expanded
Google has recently expanded and improved their already amazing Google Art Project, in which they use their Google Maps “Street View” tech to offer virtual tours of museum spaces, and, more importantly, offer beautiful, zoomable high resolution images of great works of art from world class museums. Their recent expansion adds 150 museums and galleries…
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High-res art images from LACMA Image Library
I’m always delighted to bring news of sources for high-resolution art images, like The Google Art Project, my recent post on Hi-res images on Rijksmuseum website, and the full screen Zoomable images of auction items, past and present, from Sotheby’s. The latest in this list of high resolution image resources is the Image Library of…