Wonderful paintings by Reni, Fragonard, Evelyn De Morgan, Poussin, Rubens, and a very unusual late Fantin-Latour.
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I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 90. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Move […]
Numbers has a lightweight interface and is easy to use. But does it handle numbers as accurately as Excel, or maths environments like Matlab?
Humorous paintings of animals and children, and well-known stories such as Salome, and Don Quixote, leading to an inspiration for Surrealists.
It’s unusual and difficult to make humorous paintings. Here’s a fine selection from Bosch, Brueghel and Rubens to the late 19th century.
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through whatever you’re now allowed to do. 1: Move through […]
An Austrian who trained at the DĂĽsseldorf Academy of Art, joined a gold rush in Australia, then painted the continent’s landscapes.
For over a century, Italian painters had strived to achieve coherent perspective projection, but it was until about 1420 that this was achieved. How essential was it?
In four years, he travelled over 4,000 miles in largely unexplored parts of South Africa, and collected more than 50,000 specimens. And he painted.
Starting a new series, looking at paintings of the first modern European novel. With its deep humour, Cervantes’ masterpiece has been extensively painted.
The Eclectic Light Company 