1st Edition
Painted Alchemists Early Modern Artistry and Experiment in the Work of Thomas Wijck
By Elisabeth Berry Drago
Copyright 2019
314 Pages
by
Routledge
314 Pages
by
Routledge
314 Pages
by
Routledge
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Thomas Wijck’s painted alchemical laboratories were celebrated in his day as artful and ingenious. They fell into obscurity along with their subject, as alchemy came to be viewed as an occult art or a fool’s errand. But these unusual pictures challenge our understanding of early modern alchemy-and of the deeper relationship between chemical workshops and the artists who represented them. The work... Read more
INTRODUCTION, 1. CURIOSITY AND CONVENTION, 2. THOMAS WIJCK, ŸARTFULŒ AND ŸINGENIOUSŒ, 3. WIJCK’S ALCHEMICAL ARTISANS, 4. AN EXPERIMENT IN HAARLEM, 5. THE ARTIST’S LABORATORIES ABROAD, 6. THE MASTER OF NATURE, 7. EPILOGU, ENDNOTES, BIBLIOGRAPHY
Biography
Elisabeth Berry Drago studies interconnected histories of art and science in the Dutch Golden Age. She received her PhD from the University of Delaware, and is a former Fellow of the Science History Institute in Philadelphia.
