In 1506, some labourers working in a field in Rome started to uncover a marble statue. It soon became clear that they had happened upon the Laocoön, a legendary, long-lost, ancient masterpiece.

A pigment shop first established in 1855, L. Cornellisen & Son is a window into another era of craft and commerce.

Meet Alvise Gradignan della Scala, one of the Vendecolori of Venice, the men (and women) who traded in pigments in early modern Venice.

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The story of the botanical artist Elizabeth Blackwell.

A visit to Vienna will only be improved by a visit to Altmann & Kühne, a modest shop with a fascinating, and truly Viennese, history.

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