It's About Time

 

"I have recently experienced what I would formerly have diagnosed as an attack of insanity; that is, I have purchased a small farm,” Pi...

Pierre S. du Pont was born in 1870 in a DuPont Company house overlooking the Brandywine Creek just north of Wilmington, Delaware. His early ...

Spring - Four Seasons; Art after  Hendrick Goltzius; print by Saenredam  1595

There have been many stewards of the land that is now called Longwood Gardens. For centuries, the native Lenni Lenape tribe fished the strea...

By the mid-1930s, Longwood had grown from the original 202 acres to 926 due to Pierre’s purchase of 25 contiguous properties over the years....

George Henry Boughton (American artist, 1833–1905) Spring Idyll 1901.  George Henry Boughton, (1833-1905) was born in Norwich, England as a...

Pierre du Pont’s love for fountains stretched back to when he was mesmerized at the age of six by the huge display of water pumps at the 18...

1750 Spring Published by Robert Sayer London Here Spring is once again depicted as a fashionably-dressed young woman with flowers in h...

Ten years after purchasing Longwood, Pierre du Pont was just getting warmed up. By 1916 he was contemplating grand indoor facilities “design...

1766 Spring in the Garden... Published by Carrington Bowles After Robert Pyle done by James Watson London Here Spring is a stylish young...

"I have recently experienced what I would formerly have diagnosed as an attack of insanity; that is, I have purchased a small farm,” Pi...

William Marshall (British printmaker, 1617-1649) The Elements - Earth Spring is the perfect time to celebrate Earth's Beauty & B...

Pierre S. du Pont was born in 1870 in a DuPont Company house overlooking the Brandywine Creek just north of Wilmington, Delaware. His early ...

Jean Leblond 1605-1666 La Bavolette; Jean Leblond I (Published by); François Ragot (Print made by); Young woman holding flowers in left ha...

There have been many stewards of the land that is now called Longwood Gardens. For centuries, the native Lenni Lenape tribe fished the strea...

The Louvre History of Egyptian Textiles RAWI's ISSUE 6, 2014 by Seif El Rashidi   ...The importance of Egypt's textile industry is r...

Bust of Spring ca. 5C–6C CE Egypt - Tapestry weave of dyed wools. The Metropolitan Museum of Art This small tapestry panel comes from Eg...

  Illuminated Manuscripts - Parchment Sellers scrubbing & stretching the parchment 15th century Bologna, University Library. Cod. Bonon....