We don’t even know what day he died, but 500 years ago on 9 August 1516, his life was commemorated by family and friends at a memorial mass.
Category Archive: General
When Microsoft changes the way it represents emoji, no one worries. When Apple proposes to, many are up in arms. Why?
Why did it take over 300 years to solve a compositional problem, and tell such a simple story?
Copyright should protect the creators and their work. It has been turned on its head, to generate immoral earnings for companies who have no rights in much of the content they sell.
Introduction to a series explaining the history of oil paint, effects on techniques, hence on paintings themselves.
The EU is changing to new data protection regulations in 2018. How might Brexit complicate that? Roadmaps provided.
Also a grim story of suicidal disembowelling, and a propaganda painting for Napoleon.
Probably the latest painting of his to have survived, its rich and rollicking detail make it a great masterpiece.
Is it right that image libraries should charge their customers for the use of content which they know is in the public domain?
A selection of the better paintings from Tissot’s 350+ on the life of Christ, and his unfinished series of Old Testament stories.
The Eclectic Light Company 