EditorialMaize Deity (Chicomecoatl), 15th?early 16th century, Mexico, Mesoamerica, Aztec, Basalt, Overall: 19 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (49.53 x 21.59 x 13.97 cm), Stone-Sculpture, Maize (corn) was the main food staple of the Mesoamerican diet and formed an impor...
EditorialYoung Corn God, 8th century, Mexico, Mesoamerica, Maya, Ceramic, pigment, H. 8 1/8 x W. 2 x D. 1 1/2 in. (20.7 x 5.1 x 3.8 cm), Ceramics-Sculpture, This hand-modeled ceramic sculpture depicts the head and torso of a youthful Maize God emerging from the...
EditorialMaize Deity (Chicomecoatl), 15th?early 16th century, Mexico, Mesoamerica, Aztec, Basalt, Overall: 14 x 7 1/8 x 3 1/2 in. (35.56 x 18.11 x 8.89 cm), Stone-Sculpture, Among the many female deities worshipped by the Aztecs, those responsible for agricultu...
EditorialMaize or corn, Zea mays, and oats, Avena sativa. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illustrations only, with capt...
EditorialMaize or corn, Zea mays. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus' Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse, (Handbook of all medical-pharmaceutical plants), Jena, 1876.
EditorialMaize or Indian corn, Zea mays. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimen's Medicinal Plants, London, 1880.
EditorialMaize or corn, Zea mays. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehler's Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887.
EditorialCorn or maize, Zea mays 1, and millet, Panicum miliaceum 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1795.
EditorialMaize or corn, Zea mays. Handcolored copperplate engraving of a botanical illustration from G. T. Wilhelm's "Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte" (Encyclopedia of Natural History), Augsburg, 1811. Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1758-1811) was a clergyman ...
EditorialMaize, Zea mays. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Jussieu's "Dictionary of Natural Science," Florence, Italy, 1837. Illustration by Turpin, engraved by Corsi, directed by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin, and published by Batelli e Fi...
EditorialTacuinum Sanitatis. Medieval Health Handbook, dated before 1400, based on observations of medical order detailing the most important aspects of food, beverages and clothing. Peasant with her daughter gathering ears of maize. Miniature. Folio 48r.