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Category Archive: General

It wasn’t their fault: Dido and Aeneas as a doomed couple

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Girl meets boy on a mission; boy cannot deviate from mission; boy leaves girl; girl heartbroken. But was this relationship doomed from the start by others?

February 16, 2018 General, Language, Life, Painting

Pigment: Asphalt, an unfortunate habit

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It isn’t really a pigment at all, was reportedly used by all the Masters from Titian to Delacroix, and destroys the paint layer. But it has actually been found in very few paintings.

February 15, 2018 General, Painting, Technology

Painting and Photography: the work of Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret 2

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After the early death of Bastien-Lepage, he led the Naturalist movement in France. After 1892, though, he concentrated on religious themes seen in a new light.

February 14, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Painting and Photography: the work of Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret 1

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Working alongside Jules Bastien-Lepage, he was a brilliant painter who in his early career experimented with different styles.

February 13, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 74 – The Shrinking Sibyl

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Two interlinked stories about the Sibyl, who will live for a thousand years but age until she is just a voice. Painted by Turner (three magnificent works shown), and Claude.

February 12, 2018 General, Language, Life, Painting

The Rise of the Clinic: 2, hospitals

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For painters, hospital medicine was spectacle, and its doctors actors on a stage. As time progressed, artists and doctors looked more closely at the patient.

February 11, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Here comes macOS 10.14

Apple should name macOS version with literary references. Here’s the justification for macOS 10.14 Gormenghast.

February 11, 2018 General, Macs, Technology

The Rise of the Clinic: 1, family medicine

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The role and work of the family physician was painted not infrequently in the late nineteenth century. Starting with a Rembrandt, here are some examples.

February 10, 2018 General, Life, Painting

The Tables Turned: Painters paint photographers

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Some painters couldn’t miss the chance to promote their art over the new medium of photography. Even though the war was lost, top photographers still liked their portraits painted.

February 9, 2018 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Under spam attack again: commenting requires login (temporary measure)

I am afraid that this blog has once again been under a spam attack all day, in which […]

February 8, 2018 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology, xattr

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