In case you missed or have forgotten them: some of the highlights of articles on paintings published here from Jan to June last year.
Category Archive: General
Back in the castle, the next trick is in hand. Sancho shows the Duchess a letter to his wife, and they’re about get involved with the Dolorous Duenna.
They go with the Duke and Duchess on a hunt, where Sancho panics and falls out of a tree. In the night Sancho has to agree to lash himself 3,300 times.
I hope that you enjoyed this Christmas’s Mac Riddles, episode 131. Here are my solutions to them. 1: […]
First published just before Christmas 1843, it’s probably the most successful Christmas story in English. Here illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
The shepherds become more real and tatty from the Renaissance and Giorgione to Murillo and Bastien-Lepage.
From a prototype laid out by Duccio in about 1310, through the vision of Saint Bridget, to modernised versions in a French town or English cattle shed.
Here’s a special Christmas edition of riddles to entertain you through what I hope is a long weekend […]
Paintings from around Europe and North America showing Christmas trees, decorations, family feasts, and Christmas markets.
As a primary colour, blue is essential in painting. The quest for the right blues has spanned the world and resulted in a succession of synthetic pigments which have influenced art.
The Eclectic Light Company 