Something Beautiful

Religious art (Fitzwilliam)

There are thirty-eight works of religious art on this one page at the site of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England.  I recommend them for a brief respite of happy browsing.   

Lichtenstein Museum

This museum owns some marvelous works. You can see some on this page and on this one.

National Gallery, London (wonderful)

I had kind of intended to continue on with the Nativity-related theme until Christmas.  But I just discovered this yesterday, and it is so wonderful that I would feel guilty for keeping it to myself.  It's at the National Gallery, London website: a floorplan that actually conveys a sensation of walking through the various rooms of this fantastic museum.

There are a total of thirty artworks featured, divided into these four categories --

1250-1500 (6 works)

1500-1600 (6 works)

1600-1700 (7  works)

1700-1900 (11 works)

The Fitzwilliam (museum)

The Fitzwilliam Museum site has a nice feature called Pharos.   "Pharos" was the name of a famous lighthouse at ancient Alexandria.  The Pharos feature introduces the viewer to highlights of the Fitzwilliam's collection. 

Among many other works, there is a fine Nativity,  ca. 1492, by my hero, Domenico Ghirlandaio.