Just a reminder: the Freer-Sackler Library will be temporarily closing to the public at the beginning of November 2009 through March 2010 for a renovation to increase space for the more »
Category: Art and Design
The French Count Robert de Montesquiou-Fézensac (1855-1921), poet and aesthete, was an aristocratic descendent of D'Artagnan of Three Musketeers fame and the inspiration of Proust's character Baron de Charlus. On July more »
From Fold, Pull, Pop & Turn: Gloria in excelsis deo. Illustrated by Vojtěch Kubašta. Czechoslavakia: c. 1960. This double-page pop-up illustrating the Christmas nativity scene was created by Vojtěch Kubašta (1914-1992), more »
In my work as a rare materials cataloger, some very remarkable books cross my desk. And although I've learned that even the most plain-looking books can hold surprises, I was more »
Recto: Charles Caryl Coleman (born Buffalo, NY, 1840; died Capri, Italy, 1928) Verso: Carte-de-visite photographer: Lorenzo Suscipj (1802-1885), Rome, Italy A native of Buffalo New York and nephew of an more »
Golden Noble, Lord Derby, Devonshire Quarrenden, Gravenstein, Ellison's Orange . . . what are these you might ask? They are varieties of apples that can be found in The new book of more »
From Fold, Pull, Pop & Turn: Ali Baba e i 40 ladroni, [Ali Baba and the 40 thieves], Mario Zampini and Raimondo Centurione, Milan: Hoepli editore, ca. 1950, Gift of more »