Skip to content

The Eclectic Light Company

Macs, painting, and more
Main navigation
  • Downloads
  • M1 Macs
  • Mac Problems
  • Mac articles
  • Art
  • Macs
  • Painting

van der Straet

Painting in the Rain 1: 1587-1890

T T Read More

In the late 19th century painters turned attention to depicting rainy conditions, with Caillebotte’s closely observed views, and effects on colour.

January 25, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The Divine Comedy: Inferno 15 Lucifer

T T Read More

The final canto of the Inferno takes Dante to see Lucifer himself, after which Virgil guides him back to the surface of earth.

May 28, 2019 General, Life, Painting

The Divine Comedy: Inferno 14 From treachery to cannibalism

T T Read More

Count Ugolino was a leading and treacherous politician, who could only be trusted to betray others. He was left to die in prison of starvation.

May 21, 2019 General, Life, Painting

The Divine Comedy: Inferno 13 Treachery

T T Read More

From the fraudsters in the last rottenpocket of the eighth circle of Hell, they move on the ninth circle of the treacherous – a frozen lake. Paintings by DorĂ©, Blake, Bouguereau, and Fuseli.

May 14, 2019 General, Life, Painting

The Divine Comedy: Inferno 12 The fraudulent

T T Read More

From thieves, Dante and Virgil move on to meet souls of those who had committed fraud, including Ulysses, a headless troubadour, and an alchemist.

May 6, 2019 General, Life, Painting

The Divine Comedy: Inferno 11 Barrators, hypocrites and thieves

T T Read More

From barrators, being hacked at by a pack of devils in their boiling tar, through hypocrites wearing habits weighted with lead, to thieves being tormented by snakes. Sheer hell.

April 29, 2019 General, Life, Painting

The Divine Comedy: Inferno 10 Pimps, soothsayers, the corrupt

T T Read More

A Bolognese man who pimped his sister, Jason of Golden Fleece fame, a couple of popes, and assorted astrologers – all suffering for their sins.

April 22, 2019 General, Life, Painting

The Divine Comedy: Inferno 8 Murderers, bandits, suicides

T T Read More

Dante and Virgil pass the Minotaur and move into the seventh circle, where murderers and highwaymen are immersed in boiling blood, and Harpies torment those who took their own lives.

April 8, 2019 General, Life, Painting

The Divine Comedy: Inferno 5 Gluttony

T T Read More

Here, the rain comes down in sheets, with snow and large hailstones. First an encounter with the three-headed monster dog Cerberus, then a chat with an old acquaintance.

March 22, 2019 General, Life, Painting
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
  • M1 Macs
Secondary navigation
  • Search

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