A tradition with origins in the Song Dynasty (906-1279), the Gengzhi tu were woodblock illustrations of Chinese sericulture and rice agriculture, demonstrating the processes from planting to cultivation through market.
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Alessandro Magnasco painted a series of canvases focusing on trained magpies. This short post looks a little closer at one of them.
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This presentation examines how new theoretical and methodological approaches in the digital humanities can elucidate our understanding of knowledge networks in eighteenth-century Italy and Britain.
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These are a couple photos from the Basilica of S. Croce in Florence that I took while I was there in December. In addition to my Blue Guide, I brought along John Ruskin’s Mornings in Florence, which he published in 1875. Here is his description of the tomb of Agostino Sanctucio, which sits quite neatly with his chapter on the nature of the Gothic from Stones of Venice.
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Those who have been anxiously following the court case between the Warburg Library and University of London had some good news this week when the High Court ruled in favor of the library. The case is somewhat complex, but it is summarized here in the press release by the Warburg. The library is not out of the woods just yet however.
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