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Silk and Innovation in Pre-Modern China and Europe
MoreVisions and Experiments of Radiophonic Composing in the Weimar Republic
When radio made it possible to transmit sounds across chronological and spatial distance, new listening situations and new approaches to the interacti
Experimental Archeology: Scientific Techniques and Recipes from the Iberian Peninsula (Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries)
This project focused on the assessment of scientific and technical knowledge gained in late medieval Spain in various fields of knowledge, and its app
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)
Crafting 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
Early Optics and Perspective through Microscopic Lenses
This Working Group chapter extended the themes of "cultures of optical knowledge" and "perspective practices" to pre-Renaissance contexts, and conduct
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
Color Does Matter
This project concentrated on Baroque color theory and practice in the histories of art and science. It was based upon a cross-border cooperation betwe
Publications, Leonhard, Karin: "Painted Poison. Venomous Beasts, Herbs, Gems, and Baroque Colour Theory. " Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboeck (NKJ) (2011)
Chromatic Variations: Early Modern Practices of Color
This project investigated the development and transmission of color-altering technologies in the early modern Atlantic world, working with B