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Painting: Inquisitive and exact

Alison Abbott visits an exhibition charting the artistic and scientific interests of painter and collector Gabriel von Max.

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Abbott, A. Painting: Inquisitive and exact. Nature 468, 376 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/468376a

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