Skip to content

The Eclectic Light Company

Macs, painting, and more
Main navigation
  • Downloads
  • Mac problems
  • Art
  • Macs
  • Painting
  • General
  • Life

Corinth

Paintings of 1920: Landscapes 3

T T Read More

More modern landscapes by Paul Nash, Anna Hills, Lesser Ury, Lovis Corinth, Pierre Bonnard, Emily Carr, and Joseph Stella’s Cubist masterpiece.

December 29, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Christmas trees in paintings

T T Read More

Long popular in Germany, Christmas trees spread across Europe and North America in the 19th century. Some seasonal paintings.

December 27, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of 1920: Portraits

T T Read More

Featuring paintings by Paul Helleu, Anita Rée, Anna Hills, Pierre Bonnard, Edvard Munch, Lovis Corinth and others.

December 4, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of reading and books 2: Woman reading

T T Read More

From a naked woman devouring novels, through a class of young Breton girls, to Berthe Morisot’s and Lovis Corinth’s women reading.

November 21, 2020 General, Life, Painting

God of the Week: Dionysus (Bacchus)

T T Read More

From bizarre origins as his mother was consumed by fire, and he completed gestation in Zeus’ thigh, to his marriage to Ariadne on the island of Naxos.

November 9, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Painting sculpture: 1 Senses, rude Romans, and sculptors

T T Read More

Although painting and sculpture are closely allied, it’s curious to depict sculpture in painting. Examples range from early grisailles to ribald depictions of the Roman god Priapus.

October 24, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The Prodigal’s Return in paintings 1

T T Read More

The popular parable from the Gospel of Luke, told in paintings from the 17th century, including Rubens, Rembrandt, and Murillo.

October 17, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Distant snowline: the coming of autumn in the mountains 2

T T Read More

More wonderful paintings of snowlines on the Sierra Nevada, in the South Tyrol, the Bavarian Alps, and in Maine. Autumn has arrived, and winter’s coming close behind.

October 11, 2020 General, Life, Painting

God of the Week: Hephaistos (Vulcan)

T T Read More

Famous for discovering his wife Aphrodite making love with Ares, he is blacksmith to the gods, and selected mortals.

September 28, 2020 General, Life, Painting

A History of Rome in Paintings: 2 Etruscans

T T Read More

Were they descended from survivors of the city of Troy, or perhaps they were Greeks? Did the Romans welcome or exterminate them?

August 23, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Posts navigation

Previous1 2 3 … 8 Next
Blog at WordPress.com.
Footer navigation
  • About & Contact
  • Macs
  • Painting
  • Language
  • Tech
  • Life
  • General
  • Downloads
  • Mac problem-solving
  • Extended attributes (xattrs)
  • Painting topics
  • Hieronymus Bosch
  • English language
  • LockRattler: 10.12 Sierra
  • LockRattler: 10.13 High Sierra
  • LockRattler: 10.11 El Capitan
  • Updates: El Capitan
  • Updates: Sierra, High Sierra, Mojave, Catalina, Big Sur
  • LockRattler: 10.14 Mojave
  • SilentKnight, silnite, LockRattler, SystHist & Scrub
  • DelightEd & Podofyllin
  • xattred, Metamer, Sandstrip & xattr tools
  • 32-bitCheck & ArchiChect
  • T2M2, Ulbow, Consolation and log utilities
  • Cirrus & Bailiff
  • Taccy, Signet, Precize, Alifix, UTIutility, alisma
  • Revisionist & DeepTools
  • Text Utilities: Nalaprop, Dystextia and others
  • PDF
  • Keychains & Permissions
  • LockRattler: 10.15 Catalina
  • Updates
  • Spundle, Cormorant, Stibium, Dintch, Fintch and cintch
  • Long Reads
  • LockRattler: 11.0 Big Sur
  • Mac Troubleshooting Summary
Secondary navigation
  • Search

Begin typing your search above and press return to search. Press Esc to cancel.

Cancel