I hope that you enjoyed this year’s special Christmas Mac Riddles, episode 79. Here are my solutions to […]
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Long popular in Germany, Christmas trees spread across Europe and North America in the 19th century. Some seasonal paintings.
Nine very different nativities, from the apocalyptic warnings of a martyr, through the Emperor Augustus, to Maurice Denis’ nativity in a contemporary French town.
Paintings from 1263 to 1504 show how the traditional Nativity developed. Examples by Duccio, Campin, Botticelli and Fra Bartolomeo.
Here are this year’s Christmas riddles to entertain you through whatever you’re now allowed to do. 1: I […]
Enchanted Norwegian birch woods, the Massachusetts coast, Catalina Island by night, Spanish mountains, and a picturesque French village.
Artegall and his iron servant Talus progress on his quest. They come across Amazons who, led by their queen, capture knights, put them in women’s clothes and force them to perform women’s work like spinning. This fate is in store for Artegall too.
Key parts of the background of paintings of the story of the rape of the Sabine Women, this hill was originally a fortress, then the major temple to Jupiter.
Goddess of youth, and cupbearer to the Olympian deities, she was a popular guise for portraits, and shown in a few mythological paintings.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 78. Here are my solutions to them. 1: I’m […]
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