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Eye Candy for Today: Luis Meléndez Still Life with Figs and Bread
Still Life with Figs and Bread, Luis Meléndez The link is to a zoomable version on the Google Art Project; there is a downloadable high resolution file on Wikimedia Commons; the original is in the National Gallery of Art, DC. (The latter also offers a downloadable high resolution file, but I couldn’t access it this…
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Luis Meléndez
18th century painter Luis Egidio Meléndez was one of the greatest Spanish still life painters, and to my mind, one of the great still life painters of history, though he received little recognition in his own time. His mastery of texture, light and composition elevated his subjects — fruit, melons, fish, game and Chardin-like kitchen…
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Eye Candy for Today: Meléndez still life
Still Life with Oranges, Jars and Boxes of Sweets, Louis Meléndez The original is in the Kimbell Art Museum in Texas. View the painting in high resolution on the Google Cultural Institute: Art Project, or on Wikimedia Commons (large version here, 3.3mb). A superbly composed and painted tour-de-force of still life from the Spanish master.…
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Eye Candy for Today: Meléndez
The Afternoon Meal (La Merienda), by Luis Egidio Meléndez. On Metropolitan Museum of Art. View Fullscreen and choose zoom or Download (lower right).