Blogs

Re-enactment in Teaching Art History (Part 1)
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…
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Rock-paper-scissors. Bending Tools and the Rules
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….
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The Making of Technique in the Arts: Concepts and Practice from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century
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…
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Early Scientific Analysis of Historical Pigments during the long 19th Century
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…
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Seasonality and the (Re)creation of Early Modern Color Worlds
*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…
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