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Fashion in the Natural World: Fusing Science with Art

Grace Costantino
March 16, 2016
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This post first appeared on the Biodiversity Heritage Library blog in February 2016.

Emile-Allain Séguy was a popular French designer throughout the Art Deco and Art Nouveau movements of the 1920s. Often confused with the French entomologist Eugene Séguy who was active during the same time period, E.A. Séguy designed primarily patterns and textiles and was heavily influenced by the natural world. He was particularly fond of the intricate patterns and beauty of insects (Eugene would have approved), which he saw as “mechanic wonders” that provided abundant inspiration for interior design (Schiff, 157).

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2016 Professional Development Internships

Erin Rushing
December 4, 2015
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S.I. Warren M. Robbins Library of African Art
S.I. Warren M. Robbins Library of African Art

The Smithsonian Libraries is pleased to offer five paid internship opportunities for the summer of 2016.  Projects topics are diverse and include art history research, collections assessment, educational program development and more. Applications are due January 15th, 2016. Full project descriptions, qualifications and application instructions may be found here: http://library.si.edu/2016ProfDev

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Eerie Anatomy: Vesalius’ De humani corporis fabrica

Erin Rushing
October 28, 2015
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Want more creepy skeletons? Join us for a live Periscope tour on Thursday, October 29th at 1pm!

Halloween is quickly approaching and with it come the traditional decorations of bats, pumpkins, ghosts and of course, skeletons. Back in the 1500’s, one man changed the way the medical world saw the skeletal and muscular systems of the human body. That man, Andreas Vesalius, illustrated anatomical features in his De humani corporis fabrica (On the structure of the human body) in a way never before seen. Although the pages below may seem pretty gruesome they come from one of the most influential anatomy books of all time.

 

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