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Victorian illustration depicting effects of laughing gas makes science look like a wild partyIn the age before warning labels and liability waivers, scientific experimentation often looked like something between a séance and a rave. Case in point: this glorious 1807 illustration from a ...
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New Study Finds That Hazy Skies In Impressionist Paintings May Have Depicted Air PollutionThroughout the 19th century, as the Industrial Revolution brought advancements in manufacturing across Europe, coal-burning ...
ALTON – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Rivers Project, in partnership with Jacoby Arts Center, is excited to announce its inaugural Plein Air art competition, “Mississippi Riverscapes.” ...
19th century shipwreck discovered off Australian coast highlights once common maritime ‘side hustle’
The wreck captures a tragic moment in maritime history during the 19th century Australian gold rushes. The 800-ton sailing ship was beginning its journey back to the Netherlands in June 1857 when ...
16 (17) Francis M. Nauman and Beth Venn, eds., Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1996), p. 153 (18) Robert Rosenblum, 19th-Century Art (New York: Abrams ...
Wells, the 19th century investigative journalist, civil rights leader, and passionate suffragist. Chicago’s greatest cultural export just might be improvised theater — an art form that was ...
Lundgren noted a striking similarity between the abstract geometric shapes in af Klint's work and scientific diagrams in 19th century physicist ... of science and art that has culminated in ...
Over the past year, a comparatively obscure 19th-century painting by a little-known French-German artist has captured the imagination of audiences across social media, drawing viewers in through ...
The escalator carries me down to Level 2 of the Art Gallery of New South Wales ... painting and the storytelling practices of late-19th century Urdu. The exhibition's five student paintings ...
Languages: English. Art from the 19th Century depicting Native American life was put on display in North Dakota on Wednesday. The State Historical Society of North Dakota bought 26 aquatints made ...
Who knew what, and when, from the start of the 19th Century on ... traced in his diaries and drawings through the years. What we now know as air pollution he called a "plague-wind".
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