Paintings of iron and steel production, printing, lead mining, machining a cog wheel, spinning, and developing a photograph.
Category Archive: Life
Claude Bernard, whose 1865 book on experimental physiology was popular with Zola and many artists, two scientists who drew the structure of the brain and more.
Sancho’s first duties as governor include a series of disputes to settle, and he shows the wisdom of Solomon. His master doesn’t fare as well when he’s attacked by a cat.
Includes some of the 20 lithographs he made for a limited edition of August Strindberg’s autobiographical novel ‘Inferno’, published in 1920.
This blog started publishing on Saturday 17 January 2015, seven years ago. Here’s a look back through Mountain Lion security updates, paintings of oblivion, and more.
Introduced to Europe from the New World in the 16th century, Queen Elizabeth I loved them, and Jan Brueghel the elder and his son included them in many of their paintings.
In the latter half of 1912, his style became overly Fauvist and was also influenced by Cubism. A move back to London brought a reversion, though.
Does analysis of literary plots offer anything to the understanding of visual narrative in painting? A journey through some of the best painted stories in quest of the answer.
Colour theory from the ancient Greeks to Munsell, via several artists including Leonardo da Vinci and Phillip Otto Runge.
When Sancho Panza is awarded the governorship of a local town and leaves the castle to assume office, the knight is left forlorn, and amenable to a young maidservant.
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