Maybe it was because of the beautiful but distracting sunny days, or maybe because it was really time for a…
*This blog post is originally written for and first published on the website of the ARTECHNE project on 3 April…
At the end of January, I spent a few days in Kraków, Poland, for my research. At the Jagiellonian Library,…
*This blog post is cross-posted on the websites of the ARTECHNE project on 3 July 2019 and The Recipes Project…
In my last blog post, I discussed the reasons for me to look at the original artworks when quality digitized…
Fig. 1. A folio from the Herbarium Danicum sempervivum (1656) at the Royal Danish Library. “The plant is quite large,…
In praising the works of the botanical illustrator Ferdinand Bauer (1760–1826), the celebrated writer Goethe made the comment below: The…