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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
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
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),
Cabinetizing Art and Knowledge in Early Modern Northern Europe
In recent years, a vast amount of scholarship has been devoted to early modern collections and particularly to the so-called "cabinet of curiosity," d
China in the Studio. Painting Porcelain in the Seventeenth-Century Netherlands
The European fascination with Chinese porcelain began when the first cargo reached Middelburg in 1602. Within four decades, the Dutch had imported ove
Cipriano Piccolpasso's Art of the Potter
This project focused on the visuality of sixteenth-century pottery, particularly istoriato-ware, and examined evidence of the technological developmen
Publications
Wharton, Steve: ‘The Materials of Colour in Italian Renaissance Maiolica: The Inventory of Francesco di Luca, Orciolaio’, in Trade