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The Forest Primeval
The Geologic History of Wood and Petrified Forests
Wood—perhaps no natural material has been used longer by man, and none seems more suited to human tastes and needs. Its properties are the result of a long evolutionary history as an integral part of the earth's forests. This...
The Quito Manuscript
An Inca History Preserved by Fernando de Montesinos
This is a transcription of Spanish priest and explorer Fernando de Montesinos’ 1644 manuscript for Book II of Memorias historiales, a rare reference on early Peru and Andean culture.Distributed...
The Age of Reptiles
The Art and Science of Rudolph Zallinger's Great Dinosaur Mural at Yale
Second Edition
Rudolph Zallinger’s 110-foot (33.5-meter) fresca secco painting of The Age of Reptiles is one of the largest natural history murals in the world. Completed in 1947, it is an overview of prehistoric life told through the...
Robert Schumann
Life and Death of a Musician
Shattering longstanding myths, this new biography reveals the robust and positive life of one of the nineteenth century's greatest composers This candid, intimate, and compellingly written new biography...
Pilgrims
New World Settlers and the Call of Home
As many as one in four English settlers who joined the Great Migration to New England in the 1630s went back. Why? This book uncovers what might seem to be a dark side of the American dream: the New World...
Art of Edo Japan
The Artist and the City 1615-1868
This beautifully illustrated survey examines the art and artists of the Edo period, one of the great epochs in Japanese art. Together with the imperial city of Kyoto and the port cities of Osaka and Nagasaki, the splendid...
Flowers and Herbs of Early America
A detailed look at early American flowers and herbs, with expert advice on creating a garden with historically accurate plants Hounds-tongue. Ragged robin. Costmary. Pennyroyal. All-heal. These plants,...
Bruce Nauman: Topological Gardens
Installation Views
Winner of the Golden Lion for the Best National Participation at the 53rd International Art Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia, the exhibition Bruce Nauman: Topological Gardens is celebrated in this photographic...
A Closer Look: Allegory
Painters in the past and commercial artists in our own day have relied on allegory to create "message pictures." Once thought to rival literary works or political oratory in influence and prestige, such paintings, with their...
A Closer Look: Angels
Erika Langmuir examines the presence and surprisingly complicated history of angels in Christian art. She points out that angels need not be winged; they can wear antique dress, contemporary church vestments, secular fashions,...