Tag: 18thCentury

  • A Giant Wool Form by Nicola Turner Heaves and Skitters Through an 18th-Century Chapel

    In a converted 18th-century chapel on the grounds of Yorkshire Sculpture Park, a strange form creeps through openings in the architecture. One can imagine its clipper- and knife-footed tendrils scurrying across the floor as it spills from an upper aperture and even slithers around part of the building’s exterior. Its otherworldly genesis is at the read more

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    A Giant Wool Form by Nicola Turner Heaves and Skitters Through an 18th-Century Chapel

  • 'Sarah Stone’s Unseen World' Highlights Avian Paintings by an 18th-Century Talent

    Decades before the advent of photography, when European scientists and explorers were undertaking global expeditions and collecting flora and fauna from around the world, art and science converged in fields of medicine, anthropology, and natural history. During the Enlightenment, artists like Elizabeth Blackwell, John Gould, and Elizabeth Gould—among many, many others—documented botanicals, avians, insects, marine read more

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    'Sarah Stone’s Unseen World' Highlights Avian Paintings by an 18th-Century Talent