Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

Exhibition Project on Art and Alchemy

Sven Dupré

Other involved scholars: David Brafman; Stephen Johnston; Dedo von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk; Alexander Marr; Lawrence Principe; Jennifer Rampling

Cooperation Partners: Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia; Museum of the History of Science; Oxford University; Stiftung Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf; The Getty Research Institute

Giovanni Antonio Grecolini, Die Erziehung Amors durch Venus und Vulkan, 1719, Öl auf Leinwand, 48,9 × 64 cm, Museum Kunstpalast, Foto: Horst Kolberg.

The Max Planck Research Group “Art and Knowledge in the Pre-modern Period” is collaborating with the Museum Kunstpalast on an exhibition on art and alchemy scheduled to open in Düsseldorf (as part of the Quadriennale) in April 2014. A description of the exhibition project can be found here.