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Rosemarie Trockel’s Rorschach-Bilder, or, Interpretation as a Special Kind of Perception
In 1921, Hermann Rorschach (1884–1922) published Psychodiagnostik. Methodik und Ergebnisse eines Wahrnehmungsdiagnostischen Experimentes (Deutenlassen
From Cennini to de Mayerne: Artists’ Recipes for Painting Materials and Techniques, 1400-1650
This project studied and reconstructed artisanal knowledge appropriated by artists through the close examination of one type of primary source: artist
Publications, The Recipes Project, Related Digital Material:, ColourConText Website, Cooperation Partners, Transitions, Université de Liège
Experimental Archeology: Scientific Techniques and Recipes from the Iberian Peninsula (Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries)
This project focused on the assessment of scientific and technical knowledge gained in late medieval Spain in various fields of knowledge, and its app
Artists’ Optical Knowledge
The artist’s ability to construct a convincing illusion of three-dimensional space on the basis of geometry was a powerful weapon in the battle for a
Publications, Dupré, Sven: The Historiography of Perspective and Reflexy-Const in Netherlandish Art. in: Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art/Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, vol. 61, 2011, Related Digital Sources, ECHO: Art and Optics
Art, Optics, and Practical Mathematics. Networks of Art and Knowledge in the Early Modern Netherlands
Art historians have paid much attention to the use of perspective in seventeenth century Netherlandish painting. Their geometrical knowledge and the p
Funding Institutions, Research Foundation—Flanders (FWO)
Crafting Splendor and Examining Light. The Artisan’s Contribution to the Study of Optics, 1100–1700
This project investigated how the characteristic Northern fascination with splendor created not only a fertile ground for crafts that in many ways aff
De Sphaera: Die Bildung wissenschaftlichen Wissens durch epistemische Gemeinschaften im Europa der frühen Neuzeit
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De Sphaera: Epistemic Communities Shaping Scientific Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
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Constructed Optics, Topographic Perspective, and Garden Design. The Grand Canal at Versaillles
This Working Group project chapter looked at the topographic construction of optical schemes informed by perspectival principles in early modern Frenc
Early Optics and Perspective through Microscopic Lenses
This Working Group chapter extended the themes of "cultures of optical knowledge" and "perspective practices" to pre-Renaissance contexts, and conduct