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"Colores Quibus Pictores Utuntur." The Integration and Disintegration of Pigment Knowledge in the Sixteenth Century
Pigments form the material color for painting. Their use involves various practices and types of expertise, whether from miners, pigment makers or pai
Fireworks and Color in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
It has commonly been assumed that there were no colors in fireworks prior to the early nineteenth century. This paper argued that there were a variety
Art, Natural Science, Local History and the New World in Counter–Reformation Antwerp: The Collection of the Portuguese Merchant-Banker Emmanuel Ximenez
This project investigated one of the most splendid collections in early seventeenth-century Antwerp, that of the Portuguese merchant-banker Emmanuel X
Publications, Dupré, Sven: Trading luxury glass, picturing collections and consuming objects of knowledge in early seventeenth-century Antwerp”, Intellectual History Review, vol. 20, 2010, 53-78., Related Links, Reading the Inventory
Art and Alchemy
Giorgio Vasari in the mid-sixteenth century and later Karel van Mander in his Schilder-boeck (1604), portrayed Van Eyck as “a man who delighted in alc
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Chemical Knowledge and the Armourers’ Art
The suit of plate armour appeared (uniquely) in Europe in the fourteenth century and remained in use for war and sport for three centuries. Armourers
Chemical Technology and Epistemological Debate in the Works of Leonardo da Vinci and Vannoccio Biringuccio
This Working Group paper looked at chemical technology and epistemological debate in the works of Leonardo da Vinci and Vannoccio Biringuccio. During
Alchemy and a Vernacular Color Code
This Working Group chapter project considered the relationship between alchemy and European painting in the late Middle Ages. The most direct connecti
Gastwissenschaftler Horst Kant über Henri Becquerel und die Entdeckung der Radioaktivität in Tekk Tv
Zum Artikel (auf Deutsch)Visiting Scholar Horst Kant for Tekk Tv on Henri Becquerel and the discovery of radioactivity
Go to Article (in German)Creative Natures. St. Joachimsthal, Goldsmiths, and Metallogenesis
One of the main metallurgical research interests of the early modern period was to discover how metals and minerals were formed. Another was to attemp