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Flowers of Fealty: Commemoration of the Christening of Elisabeth of Hesse (1598) (publicdomainreview.org)

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Watching the World in a Dark Room: The Early Modern Camera Obscura (publicdomainreview.org)

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Fakes, Nazis, and Fake Nazis (airmail.news)

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The Geological Sublime (harpers.org)

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When photography was born, fascination, obsession, and danger followed (washingtonpost.com)

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The Geological Sublime (harpers.org)

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Remembrance of Scents Past (newyorker.com)

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The Geological Sublime (harpers.org)

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The Language of Form: Lothar Schreyer's Kreuzigung (1920) (publicdomainreview.org)

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Edward Burra's tour of the 20th century (newstatesman.com)

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Encounters with Reality on Christine Rosen's the Extinction of Experience (thepointmag.com)

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Could the Semicolon Die Out? (smithsonianmag.com)

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The Renegade Richard Foreman (yalereview.org)

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Drawing on Tradition: Elena Izcue's Peruvian Art in the School (publicdomainreview.org)

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Do You See Craters or Bumps on the Moon's Surface? (nytimes.com)

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How Should We Think About the Renaissance? (chronicle.com)

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Is “The Phoenician Scheme” Wes Anderson's Most Emotional Film? (newyorker.com)

2 months ago | prismatic | newyorker.com | frontpage

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How Should We Think About the Renaissance? (chronicle.com)

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Medieval Fogge: In Defence of the Middle Ages (historytoday.com)

3 months ago | prismatic | historytoday.com | frontpage

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Medieval Fogge: In Defence of the Middle Ages (historytoday.com)

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Font Activations: A Note on the Type (robhorning.substack.com)

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Anatomy of a $70M Auction Flop (nytimes.com)

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The Ecstatic Swoon (aeon.co)

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The second birth of JMW Turner (newstatesman.com)

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Our idea of happiness as gotten shallow (nytimes.com)

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Art as Experience (wikipedia.org)

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Van Gogh's Loneliness (newcriterion.com)

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The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two (wikipedia.org)

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Doing Nothing Is Everything (theamericanscholar.org)

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Modern Babylon: Ziggurat Skyscrapers and Hugh Ferriss' Retrofuturism (publicdomainreview.org)

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'We Have Ceased to See the Purpose' Review: Solzhenitsyn Against Liberty (wsj.com)

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A Swirl of Intrigue Surrounds Swedish Painter Hilma Af Klint's Newfound Status (smithsonianmag.com)

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Andy Warhol's Sacraments (firstthings.com)

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Long-Lost Klimt Portrays African Prince (nytimes.com)

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Through a Glass Lushly: Michalina Janoszanka's Reverse Paintings (Ca. 1920s) (publicdomainreview.org)

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What Is It Like to Be a Bass? Fish-Eye View Photography (1919–22) (publicdomainreview.org)

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Henri Michaux review – the delirious artist who took mescaline (theguardian.com)

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Pied Beauty: Wari Tie-Dye Textiles (Ca. 425–1100) (publicdomainreview.org)

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La Vie En Rose (literaryreview.co.uk)

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Study on the Prohibition of the Purple Costumes in Ancient China (2013) [pdf] (semanticscholar.org)

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Piled High: 17th-Century Dutch Banquet Scenes (publicdomainreview.org)

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The color and color-patterns of moths and butterflies (1897) (publicdomainreview.org)

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Blinkenlights (wikipedia.org)

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An Illustrator Dies, His Last Book Unfinished. In Steps His Son (nytimes.com)

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Perpetual Movement: Francis Picabia's 391 Review (1917–1924) (publicdomainreview.org)

7 months ago | prismatic | publicdomainreview.org | frontpage

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The Heroic Industry of the Brothers Grimm (hudsonreview.com)

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Fantastic Planet: The Microscopy Album of Marinus Pieter Filbri (1887–88) (publicdomainreview.org)

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Drawing Animals with Margaret Mead (psychologytoday.com)

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A sneak peek at Notre-Dame's new stained glass designs (smithsonianmag.com)

8 months ago | prismatic | smithsonianmag.com | frontpage

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Absinthe: From green fairy to moral panic (historytoday.com)

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Light Devoured: From surrogate kings to sun shields (cabinetmagazine.org)

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Diagramming Dante: Michelangelo Caetani's Maps of the Divina Commedia (1855) (publicdomainreview.org)

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William James and the philosophy of pragmatism (2018) (neh.gov)

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The Melting Pot Symphony of Chinese American Congee (historians.org)

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Looking at Art Will Never Be the Same Again (thenation.com)

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Take the 'Death Stairs' If You Dare (nytimes.com)

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Eau de Nil, the Light-Green Color of Egypt-Obsessed Europe (2018) (theparisreview.org)

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Anton Seder's the Animal in Decorative Art (1896) (publicdomainreview.org)

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19th-century ‘toy book’ demystified the techniques used by mediums (smithsonianmag.com)

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Navigating Parenthood and GenAI (royapakzad.substack.com)

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Cadillac Ranch over 50 years is 'both interesting and odd' to Ant Farm artist (amarillo.com)

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Italian 'Fruit Detective' Who Investigates Centuries-Old Paintings (smithsonianmag.com)

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The Mad Files (tabletmag.com)

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A Distant Planet May Host a Moon That's Spewing a Volcanic Cloud (nytimes.com)

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A Man and the Crowd (1928) (publicdomainreview.org)

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How Did the First World War Change the Arts? (historytoday.com)

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Lore Segal Saw the World in a Nutshell (theatlantic.com)

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Yellow Silence: Miniature from the Silos Apocalypse (Ca. 1100) (publicdomainreview.org)

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Nuance and Nuisance: On the Village Voice (harpers.org)

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The Dome of Heaven: John Barth's Escape from Nihilism (thepointmag.com)

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Edwin D. Babbitt's Principles of Light and Color (1878) (publicdomainreview.org)

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The Many Lives of James Lovelock (theguardian.com)

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The theft of a Churchill portrait (thewalrus.ca)

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Spinning the Night Self (aeon.co)

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Gottfried Mind, the Raphael of Cats (publicdomainreview.org)

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Rethinking addiction as a chronic brain disease (nytimes.com)

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Studying Stones Can Rock Your World (newyorker.com)

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Lessons in Mannerism at the Palazzo Del Te (jstor.org)

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A Scientist's Quest to Decode Vermeer's True Colours (thewalrus.ca)

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When I Get Anxious, These Videos Help Calm My Mind (nytimes.com)

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Julia Margaret Cameron (lrb.co.uk)

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Making earthly paradise: The art and crafts of William Morris (the-tls.co.uk)

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The Powers of Soviet Puppetry (historytoday.com)

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A rare disorder makes people see monsters (newyorker.com)

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Scenes of Reading on the Early Portrait Postcard (publicdomainreview.org)

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America's War on Theater (lareviewofbooks.org)

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Born into slavery, he rose to the top of France's art world (washingtonpost.com)

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The electrifying rise and litigious fall of energy beer (snackstack.net)

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The Rise and Fall of Earthrise (burningshore.com)

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Time to Face Reality (bookforum.com)

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Wordsworth Donisthorpe, Blackmail, and the First Motion Pictures (publicdomainreview.org)

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The Rubik's Cube Turns 50 (nytimes.com)

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Looking Backward: Images of Rückenfiguren (ca. 1497–1925) (publicdomainreview.org)

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Art and Artifice (harpers.org)

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From Fire Hazards to Family Trees: The Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps (publicdomainreview.org)

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Jean Stein's Rolodex: The legendary editor's social genius (yalereview.org)

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Programming Prayer: The Woven Book of Hours (1886–87) (publicdomainreview.org)

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The Lost Art of the Negative (nytimes.com)

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Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone Can't Let Go of Stardew Valley (aftermath.site)

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Spots, stripes and more: Working out the logic of animal patterns (knowablemagazine.org)

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