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The Shell and the Scalpel: Schöpf’s Naturgeschi...
Johann David Schöpf arrived in North America as a military surgeon during the Revolutionary War and left with the raw material for the most comprehensive study of turtles the world...
The Shell and the Scalpel: Schöpf’s Naturgeschi...
Johann David Schöpf arrived in North America as a military surgeon during the Revolutionary War and left with the raw material for the most comprehensive study of turtles the world...
The Camera and the Poster: How Graphic Art Sold...
In the early twentieth century, advertising artists selling the new portable camera were selling something far more radical: the idea that the ordinary world was worth recording. A look at...
The Camera and the Poster: How Graphic Art Sold...
In the early twentieth century, advertising artists selling the new portable camera were selling something far more radical: the idea that the ordinary world was worth recording. A look at...
The City Between Two Worlds: Tokyo and the Art ...
Tokyo is the world’s most paradoxical city — ancient and ultramodern, intimate and overwhelming, traditional and perpetually reinventing itself. A look at how mid-century travel poster artists captured its essential...
The City Between Two Worlds: Tokyo and the Art ...
Tokyo is the world’s most paradoxical city — ancient and ultramodern, intimate and overwhelming, traditional and perpetually reinventing itself. A look at how mid-century travel poster artists captured its essential...
The Cup That Conquered the World: Tea, Empire, ...
Tea has financed empires, defined social rituals, and inspired some of the most beautiful commercial art ever produced. A look at the Golden Age of Tea — from the Victorian...
The Cup That Conquered the World: Tea, Empire, ...
Tea has financed empires, defined social rituals, and inspired some of the most beautiful commercial art ever produced. A look at the Golden Age of Tea — from the Victorian...
The Most Expensive Flower Book Ever Made: Thorn...
Robert John Thornton spent a decade and his entire fortune producing The Temple of Flora — the most ambitious and expensive botanical book of the Georgian era. A look at...
The Most Expensive Flower Book Ever Made: Thorn...
Robert John Thornton spent a decade and his entire fortune producing The Temple of Flora — the most ambitious and expensive botanical book of the Georgian era. A look at...
The Ostrich Mimic and the Cocoa Cards: Heinrich...
In 1906, Heinrich Harder painted the prehistoric world for Die Gartenlaube — and his illustrations became the most widely distributed paleoart of the early twentieth century, tucked into packets of...
The Ostrich Mimic and the Cocoa Cards: Heinrich...
In 1906, Heinrich Harder painted the prehistoric world for Die Gartenlaube — and his illustrations became the most widely distributed paleoart of the early twentieth century, tucked into packets of...