Sir John Everett Millais’s The Blind Girl from 1854-56 – showing a blind girl and her companion resting beside a meadow beneath dark rain clouds and a double rainbow– will be accompanied by the smell of fresh wet grass and damp earth, evoking English countryside after the rain.
— Read more in Want to smell the pre-Raphaelites? UK gallery to use scent alongside paintings at The Guardian.
One of Leonardo’s designs for a burning device was modeled after a bird known as an oiselet de cyphre. The exhibition features a modern reconstruction, displayed alongside the artist’s writings. Visitors can also smell the black, amber necklace worn by the woman depicted in his 1489 painting Lady with an Ermine, which gives off a sweet, earthy odor.
— Read more in A New Exhibition Uncorks Leonardo da Vinci’s Little-Known Relationship With Scent at ArtNet.