Here’s a fascinating podcast episode about Andrew Hui’s new book. The Study.
“With the advent of print in the fifteenth century, Europe’s cultural elite assembled personal libraries as refuges from persecutions and pandemics. Andrew Hui tells the remarkable story of the Renaissance studiolo–a “little studio”–and reveals how these spaces dedicated to self-cultivation became both a remedy and a poison for the soul.”
I’ve written previously about the ideal creative environment, but the history of the studiolo is new to me.
