I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 350. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Novel in […]
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With the old horse-drawn cabs replaced by motor taxis, Ury found his perfect motif, and another at a busy station in the heart of Berlin.
He started painting the streets of Berlin in 1888, when its cabs were still drawn by horses. He remained in search of his perfect motif until they had been replaced by motor taxis.
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Novel in […]
His final two years, painting the rural poor in France, and street children in London, in increasingly documentary form. Then his final works before an untimely death.
Biography and paintings of the lead Naturalist, from his 2 failed attempts to win the Prix de Rome, switching to depicting the rural poor, and growing success at the Salon.
An overview of reflections in landscape paintings by van Eyck, Dürer, Cuyp, Poussin, Claude Lorrain, Canaletto, and Claude-Joseph Vernet in 1771.
How gold leaf is applied, burnished and patterned using punches to create a jewelled surface. Seen in the Wilton Diptych, and revived by Gustav Klimt at the end of the 19th century.
Armida takes her ten knights, while Erminia secretly leaves Jerusalem to minister to the wounded Tancred. She flees and becomes lost in the country, where she finds a family of shepherds.
I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 349. Here are my solutions to them. 1: A snack […]
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