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Renaissance women and their killer cosmetics
In this extract from ‘How to be a Renaissance Woman’, Jill Burke delves into a complex world of beauty products, poison and patriarchy – and reveals the impossible contradictions of femininity faced by 16th-century women.
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London, city of lost hospitals
Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.
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The Old (now 'La Specola') and New Observatories, Florence, Italy. Reproduction of a pen drawing by A. Pochini.
Date: 1979Reference: 17679i- Pictures
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The Campanile di Giotto, Florence, Italy: an astronomer. Photograph by Giacomo Brogi, ca. 1870, of a marble bas-relief by Orcagna, ca. 1359.
Brogi, Giacomo, 1822-1881.Date: 1870Reference: 576637i- Ephemera
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[Small fund-raising sticker for the Scuola Tornitori (Florence, Italy)].
Date: [1915?]- Archives and manuscripts
'XIth International Cancer Congress' (Florence, Italy, 20-26 Oct 1974)
Date: 1972-Jun 1975Reference: SA/CRC/K.3Part of: Cancer Research Campaign, formerly British Empire Cancer Campaign- Pictures
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The buildings for the Florence Exhibition, Florence, Italy: aerial view. Wood engraving by J. S. Heaviside, 1861, after B. Sly.
Sly, Benjamin, active 1841-1883.Date: 26 October 1861Reference: 17674i