Skyscrapers and human landscapes in New York City, tennis in Rhode Island, and Mardi Gras on Coney Island – and more.
Category Archive: Life
What has technology done for us over the last three months of pandemic? A look back with the wisdom of hindsight, and a pub menu.
A celebration for Independence Day, the fourth of July, with a selection of wonderful American landscape paintings.
Isn’t that a horrific example of racism: a white man standing on the head of a Black man? Not when you read the image carefully.
In which Adam is warned again not to eat the fruit of the tree of Knowledge, and recalls how Eve was made from his rib.
Often an excuse for a classical nude, at least two paintings show her clothed, and many reveal her love affairs.
Exhausted and destitute figures asleep, by Christian Krohg, Ferdinand Hodler, Sorolla, Waterhouse, and others.
More slumbering people painted by Courbet, Doré, Walter Crane, and major painters of the 19th century.
Sleeping figures painted by Rubens, Poussin, Velázquez, William Blake, Richard Dadd and other masters.
At the start of the 20th century, he painted huge canvases for major public buildings, including a series for Toulouse’s palatial capitol.
The Eclectic Light Company 