Picturing Scent: The Tale of a Beached Whale What can visual art teach us about scent, stench, and the mysterious substance known as ambergris? Lizzie Marx follows a “whale-trail” across history to discover the olfactory paradoxes of the Dutch Golden Age.

La question des baleines échouées est aussi extrêmement sensorielle, et pas seulement visuellement :
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