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  • The Seven Liberal Arts

    Posted on Friday December 4th, 2009 at 11:53

    "The areas of secular education considered liberal have their foundation in classical antiquity and were codified in the medieval period into a distinct set of seven, with two subdivisions. The upper division, the quadrivium, consists of Geometry, Ar...

  • Sword Hilt Designs

    Posted on Monday November 30th, 2009 at 10:10

    A set of plates by Antoine Jacquard representing designs in blackwork for sword handles, dagger hilts and pommels, decorated with abstracted foliage, grotesques, chimeric figures and drolleries. Produced between about 1610 and 1630. [so...

  • Meet the Fuggers

    Posted on Saturday November 21st, 2009 at 09:23

    The Fugger family dynasty began in the mid-14th century with a modest textile business in the Swabian town of Augsburg. Over the next two hundred years the family amassed one of the greatest fortunes of all time. Through banking and mining interests ...

  • Fischetti Travel Sketches

    Posted on Monday November 16th, 2009 at 08:08

    Sketches fromthe John Fischetti Manuscript Collection at Columbia College Chicago"Main Street St Laurent Brittanny"France, 1945New York, 1948"American shoes proved to be much more interestingto the Danes than the American wearing them""The Danes real...

  • The Theatre of Cruelty

    Posted on Sunday November 15th, 2009 at 08:50

    Richard Verstegan (aka Richard Rowlands) (?1548-?1636) was a Catholic Anglo-Dutch antiquarian, goldsmith and book publisher. The first half of his life was spent in England, but his religion prevented him from obtaining a degree from Oxford Universit...

  • Les Champignons

    Posted on Sunday November 8th, 2009 at 23:50

    Edible & Poisonous Mushrooms'Histoire Naturelle des Champignons Comestibles et Vénéneux' [The natural history of edible and poisonous mushrooms] by the French pharmacist, Guilliame Sicard, was published in 1883 and is online at Bibliothèque na...

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