There are days that I feel like Gandalf in The Fellowship of the Ring, searching, sifting through information for days with only a little to…
Month: November 2017
It’s relieving when things start to fall into place. Up until now, the research I’ve been working on has felt like the beginning of a…
By Roma Parikh Raw sienna is a yellow-brown pigment classified as an earth pigment, originally sourced from Siena, Italy,…
When I first selected this class over seven months ago, I felt like it was a course I couldn’t pass up. I saw it…
Science and Humanities. At first glance, these subjects seem to be unrelated and located on opposite ends of the academic spectrum. I initially believed this…
Medieval manuscripts are a “niche interest” in the academic world. Even within the realms of English, history, and art, these beautiful, hand-written documents largely go…
by Bonnie Hester …and why should we care?? That’s just the question I’m going to answer in this post! More specifically, I am going to…
When we first started this Unit in color pigment analysis, I was really eager to learn how some of the pigments were made. When we…
Before coming to UGA, I was interested in possibly pursuing a library career, but I didn’t know that UGA had any classes that dealt with…
When we started the manuscript color unit a couple of weeks ago, I wasn’t expecting it to alter my understanding of manuscripts that much. Sure,…