The Blue Blot

Recent Entries

• A Mountain of Mussels, Glass Grapes, and Perfect Peeling ~ Still Foods Under the Hammer
• All in good Order ~ An Example of the Importance of describing Portraits (the details, dammit!)
• The Ball of the Wild Geese – St. Patrick’s Day 1766 in Habsburg Austria
• The Hour has come ~ Sadness & Madness in Corsican Passion
• Opulence, Opera & Opium ~ The Associative Mind at Work
• To the Indies in the East ~ The Manuscript Journal of a Young Ships-Doctor, 1840-1841
• Why is a Raven like a Writing-Desk? ~ 150 Year old brilliant Nonsense (in 30 Quotes)
• Pulcinella under the Hammer ~ Bumping into an Old Childhood Friend again
• Copulating Skeletons on a Roof ~ Rameau’s Rocking Gavotte
• Bloody Excuses ~ because Apples don’t fall far from Trees
• Remember, Remember ~ Plotters & Heroes in the Family Tree
• Calm & Explosive ~ Another Dutch New Year’s Eve
• Religion in Tradition ~ Rachmaninoff & Six Generations
• Remember me ~ Portrait Miniatures under the Hammer
• A Stray Paper ~ The Ximenes Family Record
• After you’ve gone ~ First Lady of Jazz, Rita Reys (1924-2013)
• Christ has risen! ~ Thank Heaven(s) for Bach
• The End of an Era – The announced Abdication of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
• The same Procedure as last Year? – A New Year’s Eve Tradition
• Three-hundred Year old Words of Wisdom ~ (Merry Holidays!)
• On a Steamboat to Spain? ~ Children’s Portraits under the hammer at ‘Sinterklaas’
• Dumb Ways To Die ~ How a life can come to an end…
• The Demise of a Country’s Politics ~ The sorry State of the Netherlands
• The simplicity of Kindness, Hospitality, and good Claret ~ Mozart’s 36th Symphony
• Blood & Genes will always be ~ Research after the Descendants of ‘Count Dracula’