Weather and Art
In 1970, Penn State meteorologist Hans Neuberger examined 12,000 European paintings to reconstruct historical climate data between 1400 and 1967. He found a marked increase in darkness and cloud cover between 1550 and 1849, corresponding roughly to the Little Ice Age. Painters in the Mediterranean School depicted bluer skies and clearer conditions than their British counterparts, whose paintings showed overcast skies and lower visibility. No English paintings depicted a completely clear sky. In 2011, researchers Karen Aplin and Paul Williams quantified the frequency of musical allusions to…
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