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The Black Cat in Print: A Century of Feline Sym...
From Steinlen's iconic 1896 cabaret poster to Black Cat cigarettes, jazz-age sheet music, and Japanese good-luck prints — the black cat spent a century haunting the margins of Western print...
The Black Cat in Print: A Century of Feline Sym...
From Steinlen's iconic 1896 cabaret poster to Black Cat cigarettes, jazz-age sheet music, and Japanese good-luck prints — the black cat spent a century haunting the margins of Western print...
The Flemish Eye on the English Countryside: Jan...
When Jan Siberechts arrived in England from Antwerp in 1672, he brought with him a Flemish eye for precision and light that would transform how the English countryside was seen,...
The Flemish Eye on the English Countryside: Jan...
When Jan Siberechts arrived in England from Antwerp in 1672, he brought with him a Flemish eye for precision and light that would transform how the English countryside was seen,...
The Women Who Painted America's Strawberries: M...
Between 1886 and 1942, a corps of largely female artists working for the USDA created over 7,000 watercolor illustrations of American fruit varieties — a scientific archive that became one...
The Women Who Painted America's Strawberries: M...
Between 1886 and 1942, a corps of largely female artists working for the USDA created over 7,000 watercolor illustrations of American fruit varieties — a scientific archive that became one...
Rome and the Modern Grand Tour: Dorival, Kieper...
In 1920, the French artist Géo Dorival created a travel poster inviting visitors to Rome via the Mont-Cenis railway route through the Alps. In 1914, the German cartographer Heinrich Kiepert...
Rome and the Modern Grand Tour: Dorival, Kieper...
In 1920, the French artist Géo Dorival created a travel poster inviting visitors to Rome via the Mont-Cenis railway route through the Alps. In 1914, the German cartographer Heinrich Kiepert...
Jacob Sturm and the German Tradition of Botanic...
In nineteenth-century Germany, botanical education was a serious enterprise — and the illustrated plate was its primary instrument. Jacob Sturm’s Naturgeschichte des Pflanzenreichs brought together multiple species on a single...
Jacob Sturm and the German Tradition of Botanic...
In nineteenth-century Germany, botanical education was a serious enterprise — and the illustrated plate was its primary instrument. Jacob Sturm’s Naturgeschichte des Pflanzenreichs brought together multiple species on a single...
Ulisse Aldrovandi and the Renaissance Invention...
In the sixteenth century, a group of Italian and Northern European naturalists did something that had never been done before: they looked at plants with the combined eyes of a...
Ulisse Aldrovandi and the Renaissance Invention...
In the sixteenth century, a group of Italian and Northern European naturalists did something that had never been done before: they looked at plants with the combined eyes of a...