Organisers: Sven Dupré Max Planck Research Group Director, MPIWG/Freie Universität Berlin
Dedo von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk Kunstpalast Museum Düsseldorf
Common components of art and alchemy were materials, instruments, apparatus as well as processes and experiments. Laboratories of Art investigates ways in which artists' workshops could be said to be sites of alchemy. Exploring the relationship between art, knowledge, and technology, speakers discuss various visual and decorative arts: glassmaking, metallurgy, sculpture, goldsmithing, ceramics, and painting.
Thursday, March 7
Common components of art and alchemy were materials, instruments, apparatus as well as processes and experiments. Laboratories of Art investigates ways in which artists' workshops could be said to be sites of alchemy. Exploring the relationship between art, knowledge, and technology, speakers discuss various visual and decorative arts: glassmaking, metallurgy, sculpture, goldsmithing, ceramics, and painting.
Thursday, March 7
09:15 – 09:30 Sven Dupré, Introduction
09:30 – 10:30 Session I Chair: Sven Dupré
Matteo Martelli, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Alchemy as the Art of Dyeing
Commentator: Lawrence Principe
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee
11:00 – 12:00 Session II Chair: Jennifer Rampling
Sylvie Neven, University of Liege, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Transmission of Alchemical and Artistic Practices and Materials in Medieval and premodern Recipe Books Commentator: Marjolijn Bol
12:00 – 13:00 Spike Bucklow, Hamilton Kerr Institute, Cambridge
Alchemy and Vernacular Colour Coding
Commentator: David Brafman
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 Session III Chair: William Newman
Andrea Bernardoni, Institute and Museum of the History of Science (Museo Galileo)
Chemical Technology and Epistemological Debate in the Works of the
Italian Renaissance Engineers Commentator: Stephen Johnston
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee
15:30 – 16:30 Session IV Chair: Anke Timmermann
Fanny Kieffer, Centre d'Études Supérieures de la Renaissance, Tours
The Laboratories of Art and Alchemy at the Uffizi Gallery in the Renaissance Florence: Some Material AspectsCommentator: Dedo von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk
16:30 – 17:30 Marco Beretta, Università di Bologna
Material and Temporal Powers at the Casino San Marco (1574-1621)
Commentator, Didier Kahn
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Friday, March 8
09:30 – 10:30 Session I Chair: David Brafman
Alan Williams, Conservation Dept.,The Wallace Collection, London.
Chemical Knowledge and the Armourers’ Art
Commentator: Jennifer Rampling
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee
11:00 – 12:00 Session II Chair: Stephen Johnston
Henrike Haug, Technische Universität Berlin
Disturbing Nature. Artificial Interventions in the Natural Form of Things
Commentator: William Newman
12:00 – 13:00 Steve Wharton, University of Sussex
Art and Alchemy, Cipriano Piccolpasso and the Transmutation of Matter
Commentator: Anke Timmermann
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 Session III Chair: Sven Dupré
Morgan Wesley, Sotheby’s Institute of Art/University of Oxford
Refutata per Ignem: Evidence for the Use of Fire Analysis in the Laboratory Practices of John Dwight and Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, Commentator: Ursula Klein
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee
15:30 – 16:30 Session IV Chair: Dedo von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk
Commentator: Anke Timmermann
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 Session III Chair: Sven Dupré
Morgan Wesley, Sotheby’s Institute of Art/University of Oxford
Refutata per Ignem: Evidence for the Use of Fire Analysis in the Laboratory Practices of John Dwight and Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, Commentator: Ursula Klein
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee
15:30 – 16:30 Session IV Chair: Dedo von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk
Lawrence Principe, Johns Hopkins University
Goldsmiths and Chymists: The Activity of Artisans within Alchemical Circles
Commentator: Sven Dupré
16:30 – 17:30 Matthew C. Hunter, McGill University
Joshua Reynolds’s ‘Nice Chymistry’, Commentator: Spike Bucklow
If you would like more information please see the events page of the MPIWG:
http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/news/index.html and the web page of the workshop:
http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/workshops/en/Dupre_LabArt_Conference.html
Observers are welcome but space is limited, to register please email officedupre@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Gina Grzimek
Sekretariat Dupré
Max Planck Research Group
Art and Knowledge in Premodern Europe
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Boltzmannstraße 22
14195 BERLIN
Goldsmiths and Chymists: The Activity of Artisans within Alchemical Circles
Commentator: Sven Dupré
16:30 – 17:30 Matthew C. Hunter, McGill University
Joshua Reynolds’s ‘Nice Chymistry’, Commentator: Spike Bucklow
If you would like more information please see the events page of the MPIWG:
http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/news/index.html and the web page of the workshop:
http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/workshops/en/Dupre_LabArt_Conference.html
Observers are welcome but space is limited, to register please email officedupre@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Gina Grzimek
Sekretariat Dupré
Max Planck Research Group
Art and Knowledge in Premodern Europe
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Boltzmannstraße 22
14195 BERLIN
