*This blog was originally published on the Textiles, Trade & Taste website on 16/02/2018* By Art Proaño Gaibor, Ana Serrano and Jenny Boulboullé   On 10 November 2017, the Cultural Heritage…

By Sven Dupré While in art history the potential of performative methods might not yet be fully realized, re-enactment, reconstruction, replication, reproduction or re-working, has become a complementary tool of…

By Sven Dupré In the past year, the ARTECHNE team has become increasingly involved in the integration of enactment and performance in research and teaching; it has been a real…

By Thijs Hagendijk Tools are inert. At least, that is how they appear to us, that is how we buy them, and that is how we need them to be….

By Marieke Hendriksen The terms ‘technique’ and ‘technical’ are used widely in relation to art, art history and science today, both to refer to the technical analysis of artworks and…

By Mariana Pinto Pigment analyses can be considered nowadays as a fundamental step in the conservation of artworks (image 1). In the first place, they provide us with information about…

*This blog was originally published on The Recipes Project on 25/05/2017* By Jenny Boulboullé Color played an important role in the early modern world across a number of areas from…

By Thijs Hagendijk In early March 2017, a few members of the ARTECHNE team, myself included, went to Mechelen (Belgium) for a meeting. To make the most of it, I…

By Marieke Hendriksen A travel grant from the Wood Institute at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia recently allowed me to do research in their library and archives. Established in…

By Sven Dupré One of the ARTECHNE project’s home bases is the department of art history (and history) at Utrecht University. We are fortunate that in Utrecht the study of…