Last words no longer lost (Dalya Alberge, The Guardian)
New technologies reveal etched writings for the first time.
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12, 2024
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10, 2024
A Librarian’s Life in Her Letters: Belle Greene and the Morgan Library
Letters reveal the shaping of a public institution, the Morgan Library.
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09, 2024
Leonardo and the science of scent (Tim Brinkhof, Artnet)
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 [...]
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10, 2023
Hidden paintings (Kenneth Chang, New York Times)
How hyperspectral cameras allow new secrets in old paintings to surface.
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08, 2023
Aztecs, Elizabethans, and the Looking Glass (S. Campbell, E. Healey, Y. Kuzman, M.D. Glascock, Antiquity)
Science broadens our understanding of global influences in the late Renaissance.
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07, 2023
Pizza at Pompeii? (Farrell Monaco, BBC Travel)
Finding flatbread in the buried city.
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03, 2023
Digital da Vinci (Museo Galileo, Florence)
Da Vinci's Codex Atlanticus in its digital dimensions.
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10, 2022
Cézanne’s way of seeing (Matthew Wilson, BBC Culture)
Cézanne's work vibrates with insights from philosophy and neurology.
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03, 2022
History is rejuvenation
A conversation about new youth from past events.
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03, 2022
Giving new life to old tombs (Angela Giuffrida, The Guardian)
Using microbiology to restore Michelangelo's masterpiece.