I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 152. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Cursive […]
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Open daily from now until 25 September, it features 24 of the most wonderful paintings of Venice from the 1730s.
From Ondines, who kill men by their curse, to a frozen fountain in Agubbio, and parks in New York, Paris and Rome.
From sacred symbols in a mosaic of Theodora and the Adoration of the Lamb, to roadside watering holes, and the town’s fresh water supply.
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Cursive handwriting on […]
Using Live Text to recognise kanji characters in a screenshot, then translating them from Japanese to English. Does it work?
A superb painter in pastels, she painted Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France, more than thirty times. She survived the revolution and terror to paint Napoleon’s youngest sister as a queen.
Themes from Saint-Tropez of grand trees, fishing boats with simultaneous contrast of colours, a portrait of his wife, and an anarchist idyll.
From Veronese’s bravura brushstrokes to the crafted surface textures of lavish and heavy fabrics with Rembrandt.
In the early 20th century, painters started using intense colours, often raw from the tube, and those shifted to give green flesh and blue horses.
The Eclectic Light Company 