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Item Number: 131917
Title: Laboratories of Art : Alchemy and Art Technology from Antiquity to the 18th Century
Author: Dupre, Sven (ed)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9783319050645
Description: Heidelberg: Springer, 2014. 25cm., hardcover, 200pp., 47 illus., 34 in color. Contents: Chapter 1 The Alchemical Art of Dyeing: The Fourfold Division of Alchemy and the Enochian Tradition; Matteo Martelli.- Chapter 2 Transmission of Alchemical and Artistic Practices and Materials in German Mediaeval and Premodern Recipe Books; Sylvie Neven.- Chapter 3 Artisanal Processes and Epistemological Debate in the Works of Leonardo da Vinci and Vannoccio Biringuccio; Andrea Bernardoni.- Chapter 4 Artificial Interventions in the Natural Form of Things: Shared Mettallogenetical Concepts of Goldsmiths and Alchemists; Henrike Haug.- Chapter 5 The Laboratories of Art and Alchemy at the Uffizi Gallery in Renaissance Florence: Some Material Aspects; Fanny Kieffer.- Chapter 6 Material and Temporal Powers at the Casino San Marco (1574-1621); Marco Berretta.- Chapter 7 Goldsmiths and Chymists: The Activity of Artisans within Alchemical Circles; Lawrence M. Principe.- Chapter 8 Refutata per ignem: The Evidence for the Use of Thermal Analysis in Seventeenth Century European Ceramic Innovation; Morgan Wesley. (Archimedes, 37)
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