By Dimitra Mylona A fisherman in Messina, Sicily in 1912, carrying a tuna on his shoulder. The picture by Fred Boissonnas, with its dramatic geometry and vague background, evokes the sense of almost heroic battle between man and tuna, common in coastal mentalities from antiquity to present, all over the world. Image: Fred Boissonnas (1858-1946): Un pêcheur de thon à Messine, 1912Inv. FVB N0 9×12 1261 © Bibliothèque de Genève It was the end of a bright and warm April and

By Roxani Margariti. The blocks that make up this ruined but elegant archway are made of quarried coral, one of the materials we will...

By Roxani Margariti and Dimitra Mylona In our previous post on corals , we followed the convoluted attempts to classify corals,...