Something Beautiful

van der Vliet Online

I love architectural art, of the kind done by Dutch Baroque era artist Hendrik Cornelisz van der Vliet. (Yes, his church interiors are very reminiscent of Saenredam's.)

Mary Magdalene, by Crivelli

Here is another work by Carlo Crivelli, his Mary Magdalene, which you can see at the Rijksmuseum site. It's the one mentioned by Tom in his comment a day or two ago.

(Note to Tom: Your comment on Crivelli and sorrow made me think of what is to me the best of its kind, this Lamentation by Giovanni Bellini.)

Carlo Crivelli Online

You can see many works by Carlo Crivelli by consulting Carlo Crivelli Online at the wonderful Artcyclopedia site.  They are not all uniformly good, but the general standard is quite sumptuously pleasing. 

Carlo Crivelli

Carlo Crivelli (ca. 1430-ca. 1495) seems to me a most under-appreciated artist. This depiction of the Immaculate Conception is really extraordinary as to color, complexity and execution. You can view this work through the National Gallery of London's zoom feature (notable for both its excellence and its tacky watermarking).

Seeing the City: Sloan's New York

A very fine web exhibition -- Seeing the City, about artist John Sloan and his depiction of New York City.

Van Gogh

The exhibition at MoMA has been taken down, but its accompanying website fortunately remains -- Van Gogh and the colors of the night. The site is tres beautiful -- prepare to be impressed!

A few notes --

macro navigation (section to section) is on the left of the screen;

micro navigation (page to page, or painting to painting) is on the right.

There are five main sections, as follows:

Early landscapes (10 works);

Peasant life (8 works);

Sowers and wheatfields (7 works);

Poetry, night, town (9 works);

Poetry, night, country (6 works)

Piccolomini altar (Michelangelo)

Attention, Agony and Ecstasy fans! Remember the Piccolomini altar that Michelangelo undertook as a young man, despite his deep misgivings?

Here are photos of the resulting work, much scaled-down from the original plan -- Piccolomini altar, Siena.

Manet, House at Reuil

I love this work of Manet's -- House at Reuil, 1882, painted in the year before he died.

If you're a Manet fan, there are lots more here -- Manet's complete works.

Van Gogh: The Last Landscapes

The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Spain had an exhibition last year titled Van Gogh: The Last Landscapes. The physical exhibition is over, but a short online exhibition remains.

The first page of the online exhibition has one painting each by Cezanne and Pissarro.

These are followed by six works, all painted during the three months of Van Gogh's life --

Houses at Auvers (two paintings), 1890
Field with Poppies; Wheat Field with Cornflowers, 1890
Landscape at Twilight; Daubigny's Garden, 1890

Duccios

A simply astounding, magnificent page of Duccio and other artists of his time.