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Interiors by Design: Music rooms

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The sound of music from Vermeer, Menzel, James Tissot, Hanna Pauli, Edouard Vuillard and others, from palaces to the homes of the middle class.

May 1, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 110 Lyre A

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In classical times, they were strummed like a guitar rather than plucked. Apollo, Orpheus and lyric poets from Raphael, Rubens, Waterhouse and others.

February 6, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Freeing space on your boot disk

Free that space before macOS has to purge it for you. Using housekeeping, moving Documents and media libraries, but not relocating Home folders.

April 26, 2023 Macs, Technology

Is that a mandolin or a lute in that painting?

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What’s the difference between a lute and a mandolin? Was Napoleon responsible for the early loss of popularity of mandolins?

July 17, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The Sight of Music: Concerts in paintings 2

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Children playing, amateurs rehearsing, music outdoors, and Schubert himself at the piano: paintings by Manet, Degas, Thomas Eakins, Édouard Vuillard and others.

May 24, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The Sight of Music: Concerts in paintings 1

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If composers and performers can evoke visual images in music, why can’t painters return the complement? Lavinia Fontana, Vermeer, Menzel, Corot and others try.

May 23, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: The tragic case of audiobooks

A hitchhiker’s guide to the mess that is the audiobook section in Apple’s Books app. Time to launch a Vogon Constructor Fleet?

May 17, 2020 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Audiobooks in the Books app

Can you add your own audiobooks to the Books app? It seems a simple question, but the answer is elusive and guarded.

May 13, 2020 Macs, Technology

Symphonic visions – paintings of Mikalojus Čiurlionis 2

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Thirteen paintings tracing The Creation of the World, made in 1905-06 by this Lithuanian composer and painter.

April 24, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Symphonic visions – paintings of Mikalojus Čiurlionis 1

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A musical prodigy, he was synaesthetic, and studied painting after he had trained in music. A true Symbolist.

April 23, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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