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Color and Aesthetics in Eighteenth-century Mineralogy
According to followers of René Haüy (1743–1822), minerals were classified according to basic crystallized shapes, and for mineralogical geologists the
Early Modern Color Worlds
In recent years color has become the focus of scholarly discussion on the interactions between art, craft, science, and technology. While this discuss
Color and Contingency in Robert Boyle's Works
Robert Boyle’s 1664 Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours is full of experiments and observations that “enquire seriously into the Natu
German Expatriate Practitioners of Natural History in 19th-century East Asia
In the nineteenth century, the Asia Pacific experienced extensive and systematic cataloging of their fauna and flora. The aim of my visit is to co-org
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While the workshop limits its geographical scope to Asia Pacific, it raises historiographical issues relevant to the broader historical community. Fir
"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
Artists’ Collections in the Early Modern Netherlands
While Early Modern Netherlandish painters were often avid collectors, systematic research on artists' collecting is missing. Which networks did they u
Publications, Dupré, Sven & Lüthy, Christoph (eds.): Silent Messengers: The Circulation of Material Objects of Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries, Berlin, LIT Verlag, 2011., Funding Institutions, Research Foundation—Flanders (FWO)
Crafting a Natural History of Art in Early Modern Antwerp
This project examined the relationship between craft, curiosity, and the pursuit of natural knowledge in Antwerp during the second half of the sevente
Engineering, Cartography, and the Culture of Knowledge in Late Sixteenth-Century Rome
This research project investigated projects of engineering and urban redesign in late sixteenth century Rome—flood control (of the Tiber River),