Why Illustrate a Cookbook?
A Renaissance celeb chef tells all.
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Tag: Getty Research Institute collection
The Original Turducken
What’s going on here?
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A Smartly Costumed Soldier and His Fierce Cat
An extraordinary portrait of a Turkish soldier and his feline sidekick.
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Celebrating Sugar in “The Edible Monument”
Talking sugar with the chief curator of the Getty Research Institute.
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Prototyping a Digital Publication for Scholars
How do you design an entirely new breed of digital publication? Test, revise, test, revise…
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A Sugar Sculpture in Technicolor
A fantastic episode from the history of edible propaganda.
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17th-Century Print Offers a Field Guide to Laziness and Gluttony
“Here you only worry about being happy!”
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The Ruins of Palmyra, Captured in Vintage Photographs
A glimpse at Syria and Lebanon in the mid-1800s.
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Dogs at the Medieval Banquet
Who let the dogs in?
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A Beginner’s Guide to the Renaissance Book
A tour of the early printed page.
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The Art of Sculpting with Sugar
In Early Modern Europe, sugar became its own art form.
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“Paper Museum” Goes Digital
A 19th-century sketchbook goes digital.
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