The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is hosting “Picturing Nature: The Stuart Collection of 18th- and 19th-Century British Landscapes and Beyond” through July 6. The exhibition features 70 ...

Over time, artists began to depict them in paintings, such as The Medical Alchemist (see image), an archetypal 18th-century piece by Austrian artist Franz Christoph Janneck, in which an alchemist ...