Wallpaper is having a renaissance in the design world but its origins receive shockingly little attention in the realm of art history. To remedy this, RISD Museum presents a new exhibition on French wallpaper that explores the art form’s aesthetics through more than 100 rare samples of 18th- and 19th-century wallpapers, sketches, and fragments. It also looks at wallpaper’s relationship to the innovative woodblock printing techniques of the era. Highlights include an original 1780 Jean-Baptiste Réveillon set of the five senses and some early interpretations of the beloved chinoiserie style of wallpaper, dating back to the 1700s. If your mood board is filled with de Gournay and Schumacher, this is the show for you. —Lucy Horowitz