Tag: illustrations

Finnish Art: The Brothers von Wright in between Art and Science

.Reading time 9 minutes.

By Francesca Lungarotti ‘Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary’ Blaise Pascal Magnus, Wilhelm, and Ferdinand von Wright are key figures in the history of science and culture in 19th-century Finland and Sweden, and are deeply rooted in the Finnish national imagination. They are sometimes considered the same person, although […]

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The Elegant Fashion of Art–Goût–Beauté

.Reading time 10 minutes.

By Francesca Lungarotti Thanks to UIG Image Partner Florilegius, we have the opportunity to literally dive into vintage French fashion.  The Florilegius collection includes selected images from Art–Goût–Beauté, a wonderful monthly magazine bound with a silk cord and featuring Art Deco fashion illustrations.  These illustrations provide a glimpse into the luxurious lifestyles that women aspired to in […]

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Collection Spotlight: Florilegius

.Reading time 5 minutes.

UIG are pleased to add the Florilegius collection to our archive.  Florilegius, the passion of collector Richard Jeffery, offers more than 35,000 engravings, illustrations, archival prints, and lithographs of a variety of subjects. Well-known for its deep coverage of botanical illustrations, Florilegius built its comprehensive botanical image archive from its collection of flower magazines, botany books […]

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History of Physics

.Reading time 7 minutes.

Physics is the science that deals with the physical properties and composition of matter and energy, and the physical processes and phenomena of a particular system.  Physics, to many, may seem difficult to understand or relate to, but evidence of the study of physics are all around us and impact our lives daily. We see physics […]

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