This paper describes symptoms and findings in a 57-year-old painter who had been exposed to various organic solvents for over 30 years. He began to work as a painter at 16 years of age, frequently working in poorly ventilated areas; he used solvents to remove paint from the skin of his arms and hands at the end of each work shift. The patient and his family noticed impaired short-term memory fu...

It was he who started dissecting in solitude the stinking corpses of executed criminals and indigent hospital patients, so that he might better comprehend the body’s mysteries, even before the era of Renaissance. Born in 1452, he was at once a painter, architect, mathematician, city planner, biologist and researcher in optics, while at the same time a civil, military and hydraulic engineer. He ...

Las Meninas is a virtual reality VR artwork based on the painting of the same name by Spanish painter Diego Velazquez Created for the CAVE tm Las Meni nas attempts to establish a language of art in virtual reality by placing VR in the realm of storytelling storytelling that is not simply formalistic and decorative but also psychological The viewer confronts a narrative cryptogram which can be d...

Bespreking van: Laura Overpelt, ‘By a Single Painter’. The Organization and Representation of Giorgio Vasari’s Decorative Projects in the Palazzo Vecchio. Dissertatie Open Universiteit, 2022, 2 vols, 464 en 428 p., ISBN 9789464217063.