Paintings of telescopes less then ten years after they became available, as symbols of mariners, and microscopes in medical research around 1900.
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Jupiter wipes out unworthy humans in a flood. One pious couple survive, and go on to re-create humanity transformed from stones. This leaves the monstrous Python to be killed by Apollo.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 238. Here are my solutions to them. 1: They […]
From Delacroix’s final Shipwreck off a Coast, through Aivazovsky’s Ninth Wave, to Waterhouse’s painting of The Tempest.
From Tintoretto in the 1560s, through the canonical Raft of the Medusa by Théodore Géricault, to Delacroix’s Shipwreck of the Don Juan.
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: They could […]
Looking at paintings that are maps, and maps that are paintings, including Leonardo da Vinci’s, and the first map of Australia from 1547.
It has been a long time since I last updated the PDF guide to all the free software […]
After Church painted the Andes, Albert Bierstadt travelled with surveyors to the Rockies in 1859 and 1863, from where his paintings are awe-inspiring.
Badminton, tennis, rowing regattas and races, and boxing, pictured by George Bellows, Alfred Sisley, Thomas Eakins and others.
The Eclectic Light Company 