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Contagion in the Cultural Imagination of Victorian England
Debolina’s project, “Contagion in the Cultural Imagination of Victorian England” looked at disease as a form, and argued that for disease to attain it
Touched Nature: A History of the Norwegian Leisure Cabin, 1850–2020
The leisure cabin, located in the mountains, in the forests, or by the sea, is a culturally and materially significant phenomenon in Norway. Since the
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In this project, I investigate how technology works to define what is and is not a proper cabin. I am concerned not so much with technical d
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
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)
Geschäftsführende Direktorin Dagmar Schäfer mit dem Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis 2020 ausgezeichnet
Geschäftsführende Direktorin Dagmar Schäfer erhält den Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis 2020
Dez 6, 2019 Zur DFG-PressemitteilungExecutive Director Dagmar Schäfer Awarded Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2020
Executive Director Dagmar Schäfer awarded Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2020
Dez 6, 2019 Go to DFG Press ReleaseCrafting 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
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
From the Vitruvian Prospectiva Aedificandi to the Euclidean Piazza in Trecento. Architectural Theory and Practice
This project developed certain ideas first explored in Dominion of the Eye. It studied the appropriation of the ancient/medieval science of optics in