Here's a woodcut illustration that has been regarded as the 'earliest known image of a coffeehouse'. This piece is from 1674 ...
Following the release of the US president-elect's official portrait, an expert reveals how scouring the pages of art history can help decode its meaning.
Found in a roughly 350-year-old manuscript by Dutch biologist Johannes Swammerdam, the scientific illustration shows the brain of a honeybee drone.
“A Cabinet of Wonders: A Celebration of Art in Nature” even reconstructs a 17th-century Wunderkammer ... and magic within objects and illustrations from 19th-century life sciences,” writes ...