Stories
- Article
Illuminated manuscripts, illuminating medicines
From rare bugs to exorbitantly priced plant parts, find out more about the artistic and medical uses of pigments from the past.
- Photo story
Beautiful bedding and how to die well
When you are unwell, your bed can be both a refuge and a prison. Discover how artist Poppy Nash created a bed-centred artwork inspired by her own chronic illness and depictions of ill health from history.
- Article
The eye of darshan
The Hindu concept of darshan means “divine revelation”, but it’s also about the multilayered ways in which we see the world around us. Adrian Plau explains how one image in a Panjabi manuscript relates to darshan, and why it’s so striking.
- Interview
Inside the mind of Ayurvedic Man’s curator, Bárbara Rodriguez Muñoz
The choices a curator makes – what goes in? what stays out? why? – are often as fascinating as the exhibition itself.
Catalogue
- Books
The glory of the page : medieval & renaissance illuminated manuscripts from Glasgow University Library / introduction & catalogue by Nigel Thorp.
University of Glasgow. Library.Date: [1987], ©1987- Books
Manuscript paintings from the Ramayana / Nima Poovaya-Smith, J.P. Losty and Jane Bevan.
Poovaya-Smith, Nima.Date: 1989- Books
Handschriften aus Südostasien : Ausstellung der Orientabteilung der Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz im Haus am Lützowplatz vom 8. Januar bis 13. Februar 1977 / [Ausstellung und Katalog, Dieter George].
George, Dieter, -1985.Date: [1976], ©1976- Books
Krew : łczy i dzieli / koncepcja merytoryczna i redakcja katalogu: Małgorzata Stolarska-Fronia = Blood : uniting & dividing / concept and editing: Małgorzata Stolarska-Fronia.
Date: [2017]- Books
500 years of gnosis in Europe : exhibition of printed books and manuscripts from the gnostic tradition, Moscow & St. Petersburg = 500 let gnozisa v Evrope gnosticheskai︠a︡ tradi︠t︡si︠︡ia v pechatnykh i rukopisnykh knigakh, Moskva - Sankt-Peterburg / organized by Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, M.I. Rudomino Russian State Library for Foreign Literature ; from the collections of Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, Amsterdam [and others] ; [compiled by Carlos Gilly ; in collaboration with Marina Afanasyeva].
Date: 1993