Although “Quaint Dessert Dishes” is among several articles that are explicitly directed at a female reader, American Homes and Gardens’ writers and readers were mostly male. At the turn of…

Henri Rivière (1864–1951), a Paris-born artist who spent his time between the French capital and the coast of Brittany, shared this enthusiasm, but was unique among his peers in that…

Our End-of-Year Fundraiser is launched, and the new postcards theme will be Attention. Source link

At first light, the project of classifying the clouds might seem a bit uninspired, if useful. Not so for Luke Howard (1772–1864), industrial chemist by trade and amateur meteorologist by…

Illustrations of Abū Zayd and his adventures in double meaning. Source link

Still lifes by the artist who seemed to bridge expressionism with the baroque. Source link

As Carlo Menicatti rightly observes, Panciatichi never visited the East nor even Spain or Portugal, which are home to Europe’s Moorish substrate. His travels centred largely around France, Belgium, Germany,…

In 1899, Charles Godfrey Leland published Aradia, “the gospel of the witches”, containing a goddess-orientated creation and saviour narrative, purported to descend from an ancient, hermetic tradition of witchcraft in…

Each January 1st is Public Domain Day, when a new crop of works have their copyrights expire and become free to share and reuse for any purpose. Here's our highlights…