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Colourful prints depicting the four classical elements and the four temperaments based on paintings by the Flemish artist Maerten de Vos.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/elements-and-temperaments-maerten-de-vos
A romantically tinged history of the town of Eyam, which was devastated by the bubonic plague in 1666.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/history-and-antiquities-of-eyam
Historical photographs of early Juneteenth celebrations throughout its home state of Texas and across the country.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/juneteenth-photographs
A bone-chilling book of woodblock prints, depicting a parade of demons, by Kawanabe Kyōsai, the bad boy of 19th-century Japanese art.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/night-parade-of-one-hundred-demons
The Italian poet and scholar Francesco Petrarch lived through the most deadly pandemic in recorded history, the Black Death of the 14th century, which saw up to 200 million die from plague across Eurasia and North Africa. Through the unique record of letters and other writings Petrarch left us, Paula Findlen explores how he chronicled, commemorated, and mourned his many loved ones who succumbed, and what he might be able to teach us today.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/petrarchs-plague
The earliest English translations of six Sanskrit plays about gods, nymphs, human sacrifice, sorcery, and love.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/theatre-of-the-hindus
The Public Domain Review's Mid-Year Fundraiser is launched!
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2020/06/launch-of-mid-year-fundraiser
Some thoughts in light of the Black Lives Matter protests about how the PDR can do better.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2020/06/black-lives-matter
Stunning set of images from a 16th-century treatise on comets.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-comet-book
The second of our free colouring books, including works by Walter Crane, Jessie M. King, and Arthur Rackham.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2020/05/free-colouring-book-2