In the 19th century, tourists who traveled through the Holy Land may have picked up scrapbooks of pressed flowers as souvenirs.
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Czech Artists’ Radical Book Designs of the Early 20th Century
The founding of the Republic of Czechoslovakia in 1918 also led to a cultural renaissance in the region, with a desire to create a distinctive Czech culture spurring decades of artistic experimentation and creativity.
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Picking Apart Outmoded Museum Practices
MISSISSAUGA, Ontario — How do we combat colonialism and the troubled history of ethnographies?
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The Renaissance Anatomist Who Celebrated the Beauty of Flayed Flesh
When it was published in 1543, Andreas Vesalius’s De humani corporis fabrica changed anatomical study with its elegant illustrations of the interior of the human body.