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Depicted in the image is a "mixed-gender" medical school class dissection. A group of medical students consisting of five males and 1 female examine a cadaver along with the professor. The image portrays the tension over female medical training in…

Barker's article posits evidence based hypotheses about the art of Garzoni's career, and provides a primary source telling of Garzoni's youth. Garzoni was an acting artist even at adolescence, thought to have had her first patron, Grand Duchess Maria…

Keenly observant entomologist and artist Maria Sibylla Merian was the first to study and depict the metamorphosis of insects in the field. She taught girls botanical drawing and sold her specimens, prints, and books to earn a living. Her first work,…

An altarpiece by Rubens for Chiesa Nuova. Originally done on canvas, the work was redone on slate.

"Artist and engraver Claudine Brunand was likely related to the artist and woodcutter Michel Brunand. She worked for a number of printers and publishers in her native Lyon as well as in Germany. We know her for this charming, inventive, and…

French philosopher Madeleine de Scudéry was a prolific writer. Her novels and books were published under her brother’s name. She embraced philosophical dialogue as a means to explore questions of gender, sexuality, education, and power. Scudéry was…

The Lateran obelisk is the tallest obelisk in the world, standing at 32 meters and weighing 522 tons [1]. It is made of red granite, potentially from the same quarry that was used for the obelisk in St. Peter's Square [2]. It was the only single…

A sketch of the spiral and lantern on top of Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza

Engravings modeled after the Palazzo del Te

Kepler's model of the six known planets and their orbits around the sun through the five known platonic solids.