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Category Archive: General

Leonardo da Vinci: The Master’s Master 4

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Two probable copies of his lost Madonna with the Yarnwinder, and the most famous painting in the world: the Mona Lisa, which introduced sfumato and advanced glazing.

April 9, 2019 General, Life, Painting

The Divine Comedy: Inferno 8 Murderers, bandits, suicides

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Dante and Virgil pass the Minotaur and move into the seventh circle, where murderers and highwaymen are immersed in boiling blood, and Harpies torment those who took their own lives.

April 8, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Évariste Carpentier’s evolving art 2

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In his later career, he won a succession of awards for loosely-painted Impressionist views.

April 7, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Évariste Carpentier’s evolving art 1

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A fellow-student of Emile Claus, he painted scenes from the Vendée uprising, then took to history painting at the end of the 19th century.

April 6, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Félix Vallotton 2 Mysterious Interiors

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His enigmatic paintings of interiors appear cinematic in their composition and lighting, akin to those of cinematographers of the future, not painters of the past.

April 5, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Félix Vallotton 1 The Foreign Nabi

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Originally a portraitist in academic style, he was a Nabi in the early 1890s before developing his own simple but strange figurative paintings.

April 4, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Medium Well Done: 3 Glue Tempera (distemper)

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Popular in the early Renaissance, it was revived by William Blake, the Nabis, and a few others. Despite its disadvantages, these are wonderful paintings.

April 3, 2019 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Apple Watch Series 4: ECG wherever you go

How useful is the new ECG feature in the latest Apple Watch? What can it diagnose, and be used for?

April 3, 2019 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Leonardo da Vinci: The Master’s Master 3

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Some of the most famous works of European art: Vitruvian Man, The Last Supper, and the second (London) version of the Virgin of the Rocks.

April 2, 2019 General, Life, Painting

The Divine Comedy: Inferno 7 The Furies and Heresy

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After the Furies appear at the gate of Dis, an angel opens the gate, and Dante and Virgil see the tombs containing those guilty of heresy.

April 1, 2019 General, Life, Painting

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