Many of you may be experiencing social isolation and the kind of stir crazy boredom that comes from staying home without choice for more than a few days. As ...

Today I am happy to share some animals from Conrad Gesner's "Icones Animalium". This delight from 1553 (reprinted in 1560 by popular demand) shows how far pu...

How many woodcuts can a wood cutter cut if a wood cutter needs to illustrate a natural history encyclopedia? Okay, so it's a bad pun. But that fits the bad a...

So this week, month, and some of this year, and years before, I have been contemplating art. In a classic photographic text, I came across a statement of thr...