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	<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Scissors, as opposed to shears</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Optio asked: &#8220;Question if I may please? Does anyone know when scissors (roughly as we know them today) came into common use as opposed to shears (like the springy ones we always see in junk shops), were they in common use in 14-15C?&#8221;
We do see scissors and shears used for different tasks in the 14th [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NGA hosts exhibition on anatomy and the visual arts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 06:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Body Inside and Out: Anatomical Literature and Art Theory&#8221; is at the West Building of the National Gallery of Art through January 23.
The exhibition consists of
a selection of anatomy books, treatises on proportion, and artists’ manuals produced throughout Europe between the 16th and 19th centuries that show how the study of anatomy was incorporated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drawings from Renaissance Italy on display at the Getty</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[From Line to Light: Renaissance Drawing in Florence and Venice is at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California, through October 10.

During the Italian Renaissance, drawing came of age, transforming from a slavish part of the design process to an esteemed independent activity. According to the artist-biographer Giorgio Vasari, it became &#8220;the father of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exhibition on wine in the ancient Mediterranean, now in Florence</title>
		<link>http://larsdatter.com/wordpress/?p=941</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 05:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Florence]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[wine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Vinum Nostrum: Arte, scienza e miti del vino nelle civilit&#224; del Mediterraneo antico is at the Museo degli Argenti through May 15.
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		<title>Princeton exhibition on Pacific exploration</title>
		<link>http://larsdatter.com/wordpress/?p=1047</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 05:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Strait Through: Magellan to Cook and the Pacific is on display at the Main Gallery of Princeton University&#8217;s Firestone Library through January 2.
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		<title>Game-playing in medieval manuscripts in new exhibition at The Walters</title>
		<link>http://larsdatter.com/wordpress/?p=954</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 06:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Checkmate! Capturing Kings and Batting Balls: Medieval People at Play is at The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, through October 10.

We are all familiar with praying monks, but playing monks? A Book of Hours from Flanders finds them deep in a game of blind man’s bluff, while on the opposite page, peasant boys enjoy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New linkspage: art in art</title>
		<link>http://larsdatter.com/wordpress/?p=1063</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 02:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[painting]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[woodcuts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Okay. You know how sometimes artists put other art into their own art?
Like how Petrus Christus put an illuminated prayer to St. Veronica in the background of this portrait of a young man, or a woodcut of St. Elizabeth in this portrait of a female donor?
Or Hans Sebald Beham&#8217;s dancing peasants cavorting on the mantelpiece [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cause of death: Malaria, not murder</title>
		<link>http://larsdatter.com/wordpress/?p=1062</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 02:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[From Discovery News:
Scientists who exhumed the remains of several members of the Medicis, the clan that dominated the Florentine Renaissance, have conclusively dismissed the theory of family murders, solving a more than 400-year-old cold case.
Malaria, not poison as long rumored, killed Francesco I de&#8217; Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and his second wife, Bianca Cappello, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Archaeological treasures of Saudi Arabia on display at the Louvre</title>
		<link>http://larsdatter.com/wordpress/?p=713</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 05:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Les routes de l&#8217;Arabie - Tr&#233;sors arch&#233;ologiques du Royaume d&#8217;Arabie Saoudite&#8221; is at the Louvre through September 27.
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		<title>The Medici homage to King Henri IV of France, on display in Florence</title>
		<link>http://larsdatter.com/wordpress/?p=927</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 05:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Parigi val bene una messa&#8221;: L&#8217;omaggio dei Medici a Enrico IV re di Francia is at the Medici Chapels in Florence through November 2.
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