by wpengine | Apr 28, 2022 | News/Blog
Guest post by Tori Champion, University of St. Andrews Fig. 1: Madeleine Françoise Basseporte, Umbella Corallina, punctata, similis, 82 / Alcyonium pingue complanatum, exilius cano pullulans, 152 / Alcyonium forma Pyri Estne Pyrum marinum Aldrovandi, C. B. Pin. 127 /...
by wpengine | Nov 13, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Tori Champion, PhD Candidate, University of St. Andrews Alexander Roslin, Madame Marie-Thérèse Reboul Vien, 1757. Oil on canvas. Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon. It was a mid-winter’s gathering of friends in Paris, late in...
by wpengine | Dec 18, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Paris A. Spies-Gans, Harvard Society of Fellows In July 2020, an oil painting appeared on the art market that had long been thought lost (fig. 1). A medium-sized canvas, 111 x 145 centimeters (3.6 x 4.7 feet), it depicted a sinuous woman in white,...
