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Beyond Gorgeous: Illuminated Manuscripts from Boston Collections

Avatar photo by Natasha Seaman November 12, 2016November 11, 2016

For viewers accustomed to looking at paintings on canvas and panel, manuscripts are a different beast.

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Harvard’s Garden of Glass Flowers Blooms Again

Avatar photo by Allison Meier September 27, 2016September 27, 2016

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The historic collection of glass flowers at the Harvard Museum of Natural History recently reopened after its first comprehensive renovation.

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Unraveling the Lost Inca Language of Knots

Avatar photo by Allison Meier February 24, 2016February 24, 2016

The ancient Inca had no known written language, but they may have used an intricate language of knots.

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A Walk Through the World of Lorraine O’Grady

by Heather Kapplow December 31, 2015January 4, 2016

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — When visiting an art exhibit, there’s a temptation to start at the entryway and work your way through it following the path established by the curator.

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A Brooklyn Art Collective Builds Boats in Boston

by Heather Kapplow September 24, 2015September 24, 2015

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Before you even enter the building, there are boats.

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A 19th-Century Glass Menagerie of Sea Creatures Gets a Retrospective

Avatar photo by Allison Meier June 2, 2015June 5, 2015

Melting glass over a flame, the 19th-century Czech father-and-son team of Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka replicated in fragile detail specimens of the natural world.

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Our View from the Cosmic Shore: Early Modern Interpretations of Celestial Events

Avatar photo by Allison Meier March 19, 2015March 20, 2015

When Milton was writing Paradise Lost in the 17th century, a comet grazed through the sky, inspiring the English poet to describe how Satan “stood Unterrified, and like a comet burn’d.”

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Where the Library Gets Its Books

Avatar photo by Allison Meier February 16, 2015February 16, 2015

Up on a hill in a guarded compound, not far from where Harvard University keeps its primate labs, a 127,000-square-foot structure holds the heart of the institution’s library.

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A Pigment Library That Launched American Art Conservation

Avatar photo by Allison Meier November 13, 2014July 20, 2016

When the Harvard Art Museums reopen this Sunday after a six-year expansion project, historic pigments foundational to the field of art conservation in the United States will be on public view.

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Curious Visual Guides to Victorian Pseudoscience

Avatar photo by Allison Meier September 18, 2014October 15, 2022

What if all your woes could be healed by some good thinking? Back in the 19th century, mesmerism was all the rage, merging nicely with the DIY Victorian parlor entertainment and hefty dose of quack medicine making the rounds — from questionable experiments in electricity to phrenology.

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Bookbinding the Dead: Harvard Confirms 19th-Century Book Bound in Human Skin

Avatar photo by Allison Meier June 5, 2014October 15, 2022

After having deadly disappointment earlier this year when it was revealed two of the three books at Harvard University believed to be bound in human skin were both sheepskin, the third has been confirmed as being hominid-made.

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The 19th-Century Story of the Wonderful Tattooed Man

Avatar photo by Allison Meier September 23, 2013October 15, 2022

The story of how a boy from Providence, Rhode Island, became “the most wonderful tattooed man ever known in the civilized world” involves menacing sailors and voyages across the sea, and was recently digitized so that we can all read this tale of the 19th century.

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