Jan 12, 2019 — Medieval woman painters, houseplants eat pollution, viruses that kill superbugs and more...

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Illuminated apocalypse scene from the Beatus Apocalypse of Gerona was illustrated by the priest Emeterius and by Ende, a “woman and servant of God.” This Spanish manuscript is the earliest known (10th century) use of lapis lazuli pigment associated with a female painter during the European Middle Ages.

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