Book ID: CBB000774257

Art and Alchemy (2006)

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Wamberg, Jacob (Editor)


Museum Tusculanum Press


Publication Date: 2006
Physical Details: 297 pp.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Contents:


Reviewed By

Review Nummedal, Tara E. (2008) Review of "Art and Alchemy". Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (p. 86). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Dewitt, Lloyd; Principe, Lawrence M. (2006) Alchemy and its Images in the Eddleman and Fisher Collections at the Chemical Heritage Foundation. In: Art and Alchemy. unapi

Chapter Corbett, Jane Russel (2006) Convention and Change in Seventeenth-Century Depictions of Alchemists. In: Art and Alchemy. unapi

Chapter Szulakowska, Urszula (2006) The Paracelsian Magus in German Art: Joseph Beuys and Rebecca Horn. In: Art and Alchemy. unapi

Chapter Forshaw, Peter (2006) Alchemy in the Ampiththeatre: Some Considerations of the Alchemical Content of the Engravings of Heinrich Khunrath's Amphitheare of Eternal Wisdom (1609). In: Art and Alchemy. unapi

Chapter Metzler, Sally (2006) Artists, Alchemists and Mannerists in Courtly Prague. In: Art and Alchemy. unapi

Chapter Menon, Elizabeth K. (2006) Guilt or Gold: Alchemy and Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Paris. In: Art and Alchemy. unapi

Chapter Dahlberg, Laurie (2006) The Material Ethereal: Photography and the Alchemical Ancestor. In: Art and Alchemy. unapi

Chapter Warlick, M. E. (2006) Fluctuating Identities: Gender Reversals in Alchemical Imagery. In: Art and Alchemy. unapi

Chapter Hanning, Askel (2006) The Philosophical Nature of Early Western Alchemy: The Formative Period, c. 1150--1350. In: Art and Alchemy. unapi

Chapter Wamberg, Jacob (2006) A Stone and yet Not a Stone: Alchemical Themes in North Italian Quattrocento Landscape Imagery. In: Art and Alchemy. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Telle, Joachim
Stagni, Reno
Smith, Pamela H.
Rothstein, Bret
Rey Bueno, Mar
Rampling, Jennifer M.
Journals
VIET: Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki
Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
Micrologus: Natura, Scienze e Società Medievali
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Circumscribere: International Journal for the History of Science
Publishers
Queen's University at Kingston (Canada)
University of California Press
Royal Collection
Oxford University Press
Oregon State University Press
K. G. Saur Verlag
Concepts
Science and art
Visual representation; visual communication
Alchemy
Scientific illustration
Painters and painting
Science and religion
People
Leonardo da Vinci
Paracelsus, Theophrast von Hohenheim
Ripley, George
Merian, Maria Sibylla
Marshal, Alexander
Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana
Time Periods
15th century
16th century
17th century
Renaissance
Medieval
18th century
Places
Baghdad (Iraq)
England
Florence (Italy)
Netherlands
Italy
Europe
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