quote [ In an era when the Enlightenment?s orderly vision of the natural world began to unravel, Anna Atkins produced the world?s first photography book: a collection of cyanotypes, created across a decade beginning in 1843, that captured algal forms in startling blue-and-white silhouettes. Paige Hirschey situates Atkins? efforts among her naturalist peers, discovering a form of illustration that, rather than exhibit an artist?s mastery over nature, allowed specimens to ?illustrate? themselves. ]

quote [ Again, in the "pig histrionic" what can be more apparent than the tragic tendency it has unconsciously received from the hand of the greatest of tragedians? Sir Henry Irving has instilled a pathos and despair into the expression of his pig that the jocund and light-hearted animal can scarcely display in real life. ]

quote [ Far from the epicenter of surrealism, Kansuke Yamamoto created dream-like pictorialist works that have largely been overlooked ? undeservedly so ]

quote [ "I make beautiful things, then see them buried. A bit like God. x" ]

quote [ He?s known for his colossal works, such as the statue of David, the floor-to-ceiling frescoes of the Sistine Chapel, and the dome of St. Peter?s which dominates the Rome skyline. ]

quote [ If, as some have said, it is true that the Renaissance birthed the idea of the individual, then Dürer must be seen as one of the first great romantic individuals. ]

quote [ In the late 1930s, as the United States was still reeling from the Great Depression and European countries were bracing for an inevitable clash with Hitler, a group of nine artists from disparate backgrounds connected in Taos, New Mexico based on a shared desire to paint the unseen. ]

quote [ Got milk? Pour yourself a glass and gulp down some little-known history about the household staple. In the early decades of the 20th century, milk was commonly used to make many plastic ornaments, including jewellery, gemstones, buttons, decorative buckles, fountain pens, fancy comb and brush sets and even piano keys. ]

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quote [ One minute to copy Leonardo da Vinci?s Mona Lisa. ]