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Alchemical Mercury
How can we account, in a rigorous way, for alchemy's ubiquity? We think of alchemy as the transformation of a base material (usually lead) into gold, but "alchemy" is a word in wide circulation in everyday life, often called upon to fulfill a metaphoric duty as the magical transformation of materials. Almost every culture and time has had some form of alchemy. This book looks at alchemy, not at any one particular instance along the historical timeline, not as a practice or theory, not as a mode of redemption, but as a theoretical problem, linked to real gold and real production in the world. What emerges as the least common denominator or "intensive property" of alchemy is ambivalence, the impossible and paradoxical coexistence of two incompatible elements. Alchemical Mercury moves from antiquity, through the golden age of alchemy in the Dutch seventeenth century, to conceptual art, to alternative fuels, stopping to think with writers such as Dante, Goethe, Hoffmann, the Grimm Brothers, George Eliot, and Marx. Eclectic and wide-ranging, this is the first study to consider alchemy in relation to literary and visual theory in a comprehensive way.
Making Copies in European Art 1400-1600
A team of 16 experts underline the binds and exchanges between different contexts and artistic techniques that copies established in the Renaissance, and how the history of taste is sophisticated and complex.
Moses schlägt Wasser aus dem Felsen
"... Showcases a 'new discovery' from the world's largest collection of works by the Bassano dynasty of painters, which is in the Picture Gallery of the Kunsthistorisches Museum. Moses Striking the Rock by Jacopo da Ponte, called Bassano, was long regarded as the work of one of his followers and thus banished to the depot and hidden from both the general public and experts for five decades. However, the on-going research project analysing the Picture Gallery's Bassano holdings was able to identify the elegant painting as an important work by Jacopo (c. 1570-1575)." -- from www.khm.at/en/visit/exhibitions/2017/point-of-view-17/ (viewed 6 April 2017).
A New Antiquity
We tend to think of sixteenth-century European artistic theory as separate from the artworks displayed in the non-European sections of museums. Alessandra Russo argues otherwise. Instead of considering the European experience of “New World” artifacts and materials through the lenses of “curiosity” and “exoticism,” Russo asks a different question: What impact have these works had on the way we currently think about—and theorize—the arts? Centering her study on a vast corpus of early modern textual and visual sources, Russo contends that the subtlety and inventiveness of the myriad of American, Asian, and African creations that were pillaged, exchanged, and often eventually des...
Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting
Presents a survey of sixty Venetian Renaissance paintings of the calibre of Bellini and Titian's "Feast of the Gods" in Washington and Giorgione's "Laura and Three Philosophers" in Vienna.
Ein Traum von der Antike
Der weibliche Akt mit einem männlichen Torso von Girolamo da Treviso (Treviso um 1490??1548 Boulogne) ist ein selten ausgestelltes Gemälde, das dennoch unter verschiedenen Gesichtspunkten Aufmerksamkeit verdient. Die eklektische Persönlichkeit des Künstlers, die immer noch viele Fragen aufwirft, das Sujet, das sich nicht sofort einer Interpretation öffnet, und die Maltechnik, die im venezianischen Kunstkontext um 1515 ungewöhnlich ist, sind Elemente, die das Interesse erregten und dazu anspornten, das Werk genauer zu untersuchen.0Ein 1515 in Venedig entstandener Holzschnitt, der Susanna und die beiden Alten zeigt, trägt ein Monogramm, das seit der Mitte des 19. Jahrhundert mit Girolam...
