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Category Archive: General

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 241

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 241. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Energy […]

February 5, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

Paintings of Pompeii: 2 The city remembered

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By the end of the 18th century, remains of Pompeii were being excavated and inspired painters to re-imagine life and death in the city.

February 4, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Pompeii: 1 Before the eruption

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When Pompeii was buried by debris from the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE, many fine Roman paintings were preserved. Here’s a selection.

February 3, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 241

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Energy unit […]

February 3, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

High: Alpine Miscellany

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Mountain paintings by JMW Turner, John Ruskin, John Brett, and Georg Janny.

February 2, 2024 General, Life, Painting

In memoriam Maurice Prendergast who died a century ago

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Best-known for his watercolours of Venice, he was a Post-Impressionist, and an early promoter of the art of Cézanne and Matisse in the US.

February 1, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 109 Candles for effect

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An early Rembrandt, chiaroscuro lighting, one of Adam Elsheimer’s oil on copper paintings, above Frederick the Great, and adorning Goya’s painting hat.

January 31, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 108 Candles as symbols

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Candles in Candlemas, as votives, at pardons and funerals, and snuffed out as part of excommunication. Used in sorcery, allegory, and Vanitas.

January 30, 2024 General, Life, Painting

The World According to Macintosh (in 1994)

An article published in The Mac 30 years ago to celebrate the Mac’s tenth birthday, with a glance back at the realities, and some predictions of the future in 2004.

January 30, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

Changing Paintings: 4 Io as a cow, the eyes of Argus, and Syrinx

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Jupiter wants Io, but after raping her turns her into a cow for safe-keeping. Juno suspects, though, and puts the cow under the watchful hundred eyes of Argus.

January 29, 2024 General, Life, Painting

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