Madder and Woad: Color and the Victorians
“Down with the pretty ladies of the old school! Down with the old masters! Away with the pretty ladies!”
Ken Russell’s Dante’s Inferno (1967), a...
Scent Unspoken | Perfume and Magical Spaces
This past winter was among the most brutal I’ve known. With its record-low temperatures and record-high snowfall, my only avenue of escape into spring...
Firefly Diamonds
Illuminated copper engraving, 1705, by Maria Sibylla Merian. Wikimedia Commons.
The traveling bug lover, in the earliest days of insect study, brought back from foreign...