The Research Group Dupré is presenting a series of colloquia on the theme Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe in 2011 and 2012.
Upcoming Talks:
Monday 16 December 2013, Frank Fehrenbach, Hamburg University
Leonardo's Liquid Bodies
Completed Events:
Monday, 18 November 2013, Lucia Dacome, MPIWG, University of Toronto
"Whether this Art Owes More to Nature, or Nature to this Art": Visualizing the Body in Eighteenth-Century Italy
Monday, 14 October 2013, Claudia Swan, MPIWG, Northwestern University, Illinois
Art, Value, Common Knowledge, and Natural History: The Adversaria of Ernst Brinck (1582-1649)
Monday, 2 September 2013, Anke Timmermann, MPIWG, Medizinische Universität Wien
Signs of Change: Symbols and Illustrations in Late Medieval Alchemical Manuscripts
Monday, 24 June 2013, Valentina Sebastiani, MPIWG, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Trento
Artists' Scholarly Expertise for the Making of Bestsellers in 16th-century Basel
Tbc- Monday, 10 June, Frank Fehrenbach, Harvard University
Title: tba
Monday, 27 May 2013, Amy Buono, MPIWG, Southern Methodist University, Dallas
Chromatic Variations: Early Modern Practices of Color
Monday, 29 April 2013, Anna Schönemann, MPIWG, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Stuttgart
The Technology of European Lacquer: Origin and Influences to the Prussian Art
Monday, 18 March 2013, Susan Maxwell, MPIWG, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
Science and Statecraft in Rubens' Munich Hunt Paintings
Monday, 18 February 2013, Pascal Dubourg Glatigny, CNRS, Paris
Does Saint-Peter’s Dome need a Mathematic Assessment (1743)?
Monday, 28 January 2013, Doris Oltrogge, Cologne Institute for Conservation Sciences
Manuscripts and Prints - Exchange, Use and Reading of Recipe Texts in Early Modern Times
Monday 17 September 2012, William Newman, Indiana University, Bloomington
Design, Materials, and the Art-Nature Debate: Nuancing the Relationship between Alchemy and the Visual Arts
Monday 29 October 2012, Thijs Weststeijn, MPIWG, University of Amsterdam
China in the Studio. Painting Porcelain in the Seventeenth-Century Netherlands
Monday 19 November 2012, Steve Wharton, MPIWG, University of Sussex
The Transmission of Knowledge and Cipriano Piccolpasso’s Three Books of the Art of the Potter (1558-75)
Thursday 24 November 2011, Jeanne Peiffer, Centre Alexandre Koyré
Perspective Appropriated in 16th c. Southern German Artists' Booklets.
Monday 12 December 2011, Pietro Roccasecca, Accademia Belle Arti Roma
Representing „Remotio“:“Prospettiva“ between Optics and Methematics from Masolino to Alberti
Thursday 26 January 2012, Michael Thimann Universität Passau & Claus Zittel Freie Universität Berlin,
both members of the Max Planck Research Group “Das wissende Bild” at the KHI, Florence
The Artist as Reader
Monday 20 February 2012, Mark Clarke, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Mediaeval Artist’ Technical Recipes: Use, Re-use, Abuse
Monday 19 March 2012, Valentina Pugliano, MPIWG, University of Oxford
Nature Manufactured: The Artisans’ Touch in Renaissaance Cabinets of Naturalia
Monday 23 April 2012, Anke te Heesen, Humboldt Universität, Berlin
Title to be confirmed
Monday 21 May 2012, Sylvie Neven, University of Liège, Belgium
The Strasbourg Tradition : Genesis and Peregrination of Artists’Recipe Books in Pre-Modern Europe
Monday 11 June, 2012 Lawrence Principe, Johns Hopkins University
Title to be confirmed
Monday July 2, 2012, Marco Beretta, University of Bologna
The Glass Puzzle. (Al)chemical Theories on Vitrification.
Further information will be posted on the MPIWG website - Events - in the near future.