Sunday, January 30, 2011

GREAT SITE FOR ART VIEWING

I came across this yesterday and thought I'd post it on my blog. So I'm posting it on my blog! Get ready to lose a few hours gazing at these masterpieces from long ago...

http://www.wga.hu/index.html

The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism, Romanticism periods (1000-1850), currently containing over 26.000 reproductions. Picture commentaries, artist biographies are available. Guided tours, period music, catalogue, free postcard and other services are provided.

4 comments:

Kim Carney said...

I don't know if I ever mentioned Jared Shear. Worked with him at msnbc.com and he moved back to Montana ... he painted one mountain everyday and it is wonderful
http://cougarpeakaboo.blogspot.com/

also another site
http://zupzup.com/blog/

he is the nicest guy! Take a look
hugs to Tina. Hope you guys are doing okay in your paradise!

Kim Carney said...

hey, you just googled me!
I just blogged about your art

you guys email me and tell me how you are ;)

K

Ben Garrison said...

I just e-mailed you!

Kodanshi said...

Oh, you complete sod, why did you post that link? Now I’m going to be glued to my monitor for the rest of the night, won’t get any sleep, and be utterly knackered for work tomorrow!

Thanks for the link, man :-D.