
Organized by Sven Dupré, Director of the Max Planck Research Group
Art and Knowledge in Pre-modern Europe
Venue:
The Villa at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin
Contact: (officedupre@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de)
0049 (0)30 22667 284

Monday 21 May 2012, Sylvie Neven, University of Liège, Belgium,
Commentator: Doris Oltrogge Cologne Institute of Conservation Sciences
The Strasbourg Tradition : Genesis and Peregrination of Artists’ Recipe Books in Pre-Modern Europe
Monday 11 June 2012, Lawrence Principe, Johns Hopkins University
Recipes and Ideas: Another Look at the Chymical Diptych of Theory and Practice
Monday 2 July 2012, Marco Beretta, University of Bologna / Museo Galileo, Florence
Alchemy, Art and Manufacture in 16th Century Florentine Glassmaking .
Monday 31 October 2011, Karin Leonhard MPIWG
Baroque Colour Theory and Still Life Painting
Thursday 24 November 2011, Jeanne Peiffer (CNRS) Centre Alexandre Koyré
Perspective Appropriated in 16th c. Southern German Artists‘ Booklets.
Monday 12 December 2011, Pietro Roccasecca Accademia Belle Arti Rom Representing “Remotio“:“Prospettiva“ between Optics and Mathematics from Masolino to Alberti
Thursday 26 January 2011, Michael Thimann Universität Passau & Claus Zittel Freie Universität Berlin. MPRG “Das wissende Bild” at the Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence The Artist as Reader
Monday 20 February 2012, Mark Clarke, Universidad Nova de Lisboa
Medieval Artists’ Technical Recipes: Use, Re-use, Abuse
Monday 19 March 2012, Valentina Pugliano, MPIWG, University of Oxford
Nature Manufactured: The Artisans’ Touch in Renaissance Cabinets of Naturalia
Monday 23 April 2012, Anke te Heesen, Humboldt Universität, Berlin
Historiography and the Display of the Infinite Amount. About Recent Exhibitions