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We've got a special 📚TOP 3 FREE READS 📚today, featuring a peek into our #RareBooks.
Discover a major woman #BotanicalArtist, plus hothouses and tech #EarlyModern Europeans used to cultivate #pineapples! 1/4
Chosen by Ashley Buchanan, Postdoctoral Fellow in #PlantHumanities.
Byzantinists, ready for another 📚 TOP 3 FREE READS 📚?
Our #OpenAccess books explore the influence of the Crusades on #Byzantium and the #Muslim world; #Byzantine #coins from 1081—1204; and the complete typika in translation.
Chosen by Digital Content Manager Lain Wilson. 1/4
During her third journey through the #Amazon, botanical artist #MargaretMee traveled north to the Uaupés River to paint Rapateaceae, "an extraordinary swamp plant.” Learn more about Mee’s expeditions in our online exhibit Margaret Mee: #PortraitsOfPlants: https://t.co/QDLZ1AygLx.
How did the site of a gallows, dump, & quarry become a picturesque public park in #Paris? Read a Q&A w/ @cudenvercap professor Ann Komara: https://t.co/rBIKdcEfxZ.
📷 📖: "amazing" frontispiece & "enormous banana plants." @HarvardLibrary 99003386229, 99001173612.
#ScholarSunday
"500 years ago, #Tenochtitlan, the magnificent #Aztec capital, was devastated by an #epidemic outbreak caused by European contact. I'm preparing an online exhibit for this fall about #Nahua recollections of the tragedy." —Felipe Ledesma-Núñez
📖: Codex Telleriano-Remensis.
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"No longer confined to the Company School genre" of colonial art, "#BotanicalIllustration can serve the urgent 21st-century purpose of #conservation," writes Bangalore-based artist/@NatGeo Young Explorer Nirupa Rao.
Read her essay for #PortraitsOfPlants: https://t.co/eJecoigUc1.
#MargaretMee had just finished painting #Dichorisandra thyrsiflora when she began her second expedition in the #Amazon, this time focusing on bromeliads in Mato Grosso. Learn more about Mee’s travels online in our exhibit Margaret Mee: #PortraitsOfPlants:
https://t.co/QDLZ1AygLx.
Celebrating #BiodiversityDay with botanical artist & environmental advocate #MargaretMee (1909-1988), born #OnThisDay.
Mee painted #biodiversity in the Amazon & spoke out against its devastation. Explore her work: https://t.co/AHopSy1qQe.
#PortraitsOfPlants @UNBiodiversity #OTD
Attention, teachers & students! Want last minute #APExam prep?
Our #APWorldHistory #DBQ explores early responses to Amazon #deforestation by scientists, governments, & artists like Margaret Mee: https://t.co/zwQqUsYzeN.
#EndangeredSpeciesDay #DistanceLearning #PortraitsOfPlants
#BYZANTINE #MAGIC
Henry Maguire
"A fascinating subject, though somehow still understudied (we are hoping to change that!)."
https://t.co/sOP3YJsK7W
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