Coming This Week - Fine Art Friday

With so much focus on the technical side of of visualization, we want to bring some much needed attention back to the roots of our industry. Every Friday we'll be posting a series of paintings, photographs and traditional illustrations to showcase lighting, composition and mood to help inspire your digital visualizations. Below you'll find a selection of works from the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection. Do you have a favourite non-digital artist you think we should feature? Let us know!

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The Mill of Montmartre
Artist: Georges Michel (French, Paris 1763–1843 Paris)
Date: probably ca. 1820
Medium: Oil on canvas

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437080

 

Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute
Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner (British, London 1775–1851 London)
Date: ca. 1835
Medium: Oil on canvas

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437853 

 

Italian Garden
Artist: Friedrich August von Kaulbach (German, Munich 1850–1920 Ohlstadt bei Murnau)
Date: 1894
Medium: Oil on canvas

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436814

 

Gathering Olives at Tivoli
Artist: JFrançois-Louis Français (French, Plombières-les-Bains 1814–1897 Plombières-les-Bains)
Date: ca. 1868
Medium: Oil on canvas

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436329

 

The Pigeon House
Artist: Roelof van Vries (Dutch, Haarlem 1630/31–after 1681)
Medium: Oil on canvas

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437922

 

The Huis ten Bosch at The Hague and Its Formal Garden (View from the East)
Artist: Jan van der Heyden (Dutch, Gorinchem 1637–1712 Amsterdam)
Date: ca. 1668–70
Medium: Oil on wood

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436648

Wheat Fields
Artist: Jacob van Ruisdael (Dutch, Haarlem 1628/29–1682 Amsterdam)
Date: ca. 1670
Medium: Oil on canvas

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437549
 

 

The Pelkus Gate near Utrecht
Artist: Jan van Goyen (Dutch, Leiden 1596–1656 The Hague)
Date: 1646
Medium: Oil on wood

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436557

 

Venice: The Dogana and Santa Maria della Salute
Artist: Workshop of Francesco Guardi (Italian, Venice 1712–1793 Venice)
Medium: Oil on wood

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436600

 

Masquerade Ball at the Ritz Hotel, Paris
Artist: Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta (Spanish, Rome 1841–1920 Versailles)
Date: 1909
Medium: Oil on canvas

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436927

River with a Distant Tower
Artist: Camille Corot (French, Paris 1796–1875 Paris)
Date: 1865
Medium: Oil on canvas

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/435983