Blogs

Cutting in Cultural Heritage. Besieging the Archives with a Paper-knife
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…
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Transmitting Technique Between Disciplines: the Anatomical Models of William Rush (1756-1833)
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…
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New Ways of Seeing and Knowing. How Art Moved from the Laboratory to the University Lecture Hall
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…
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In Waking Hours: historical reconstruction, film, and why we need more diversity in academic output
* This blog was cross-posted on 10 October 2017 on Shells and Pebbles* By Jenny Boulboullé On 6 December 2016 Katrien Vanagt, a historian of science and filmmaker, gave a…
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Short History of the Cochineal Red
* This text is part of an essay originally written in 2014 and submitted for the MSc in Conservation Science (University College London)* By Mariana Pinto In our Artechne project…
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