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Category Archive: General

Botticelli’s studio

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Half a millennium later, a British artist paints the interior of Botticelli’s studio, with members of the de’ Medici family. How accurate could that be?

November 7, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Reading Visual Art: 233 Sirens

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They tried to lure Odysseus and his crew to their deaths, and the same with Jason and his Argonauts. With the head of a beautiful woman and the legs of a bird, their singing was alluring to sailors.

November 6, 2025 General, Life, Painting

The Dutch Golden Age: Water

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With much of the Dutch Republic close to water, views of the coast became marines, those of cities showed boats busy nearby, and the countryside was overrun by rivers.

November 5, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Medium and Message: Industrial chemistry

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The new medium of the latter half of the 20th century, and how pioneers like Sam Golden transformed it to make it suitable as a replacement for oils.

November 4, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Dante’s Inferno: 15 Lucifer himself

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To the depths of Hell, to see the giant triple-headed Lucifer eating Judas Iscariot, Brutus and Cassius. Then as dawn draws near, back to the world above.

November 3, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 332

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 332. Here are my solutions to them. 1: I […]

November 3, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

The way of the Spartans 2

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How Lycurgus got the Spartans to keep his laws, the 300 at Thermopylae, a Spartan poet supporting warriors in the 2nd Messenian War, and the role of Sparta in the start of the war against Troy.

November 2, 2025 General, Life, Painting

The way of the Spartans 1

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The remarkable story of how Lycurgus laid down the oral laws of Sparta, to create the perfect male warrior. Paintings by Degas, Delacroix, David and others.

November 1, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 332

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

November 1, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Gustave Doré’s paintings: After the war

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The first portrait of Sarah Bernhardt, scenes of the Franco-Prussian War, two huge religious paintings, and two superb views of the Scottish Highlands. Doré as you’ve not seen him before.

October 31, 2025 General, Life, Painting

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