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5 10, 2024

A Librarian’s Life in Her Letters: Belle Greene and the Morgan Library

By Humanities Watch|2024-10-07T14:26:39-04:00October 5th, 2024|Academia, Arts, Asia, education, Europe, Everything Else, Exhibits, History, Language, Libraries, Literature, painting, Quotes, U.S. / Canada, Writing|0 Comments

Letters reveal the shaping of a public institution, the Morgan Library.

5 10, 2024

A Librarian’s Life in Her Letters: Belle Greene and the Morgan Library

By Humanities Watch|2024-10-05T10:39:03-04:00October 5th, 2024|Academia, Arts, Asia, business, Economics, education, Europe, Everything Else, History, Language, Libraries, Literature, painting, Quotes, U.S. / Canada, Writing|0 Comments

Letters reveal the shaping of a public institution, the Morgan Library.

23 09, 2024

The music of the fishes (Alessia Franco and David Robson, BBC Future)

By Humanities Watch|2024-09-23T17:35:03-04:00September 23rd, 2024|Arts, business, Economics, Europe, Everything Else, History, Language, Literature, Music, Nature, News, September|0 Comments

How ancient oral traditions teach the rhythms and methods of fishing in Sicily.

8 09, 2024

Leonardo and the science of scent (Tim Brinkhof, Artnet)

By Humanities Watch|2024-09-08T17:55:00-04:00September 8th, 2024|Academia, Arts, Europe, Everything Else, Exhibits, History, Medicine, News, painting, science|0 Comments

Leonardo and the science of scent: a recent exhibit explores da Vinci's fascination with smell. From the article: Touted as a multi-sensory, olfactory experience, the exhibition shows that Leonardo got interested in perfumes after comparing the machinations of smell to those of sight and hearing. He collected commercially available perfumes, many of them made [...]

21 07, 2024