The Making and Knowing Project (www.makingandknowing.org) celebrates the publication of Secrets of Craft and Nature in Renaissance France. A Digital Critical Edition and English Translation of BnF Ms. Fr. 640, a remarkable sixteenth-century manuscript held by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF). The manuscript contains over 900 recipes for making art objects, medical remedies, and…

Lectures by Céline Talon (Paintings Conservator and Art Historian, Brussels), Dr. Gianluca Pastorelli (Conservation Scientist, Centre for Art TechnologicalStudies and Conservation (CATS), Copenhagen) and Carol Pottasch (Senior Paintings Conservator, Mauritshuis, The Hague) Registration is required, rsvp before 5 March 2020 by sending an email to m.l.schans@uu.nl. Artists’ Palettes PALETTES AND COLOUR MIXTURES IN NORTHERN RENAISSANCE PAINTING…

  During the Centre for Visual Culture’s Inaugural Conference Reconstruction: Methods and Practices in Research, Exhibitions, and Conservation, Sven Dupré will give a Keynote Lecture on Site Matters: Histories and Designs of “Re-Methods.”   When: 24th-25th February Where: Trinity Hall, Cambridge Click here for the full program, more information and tickets.

ARTECHNE alumna Marieke Hendriksen is one of the winners of an inaugural Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) Early Career Award. The presentation of the KNAW Early Career Awards took place during a festive gathering in the Trippenhuis Building on 4 February 2020.  

You can apply now for the 44th International Wolfenbüttel Summer School, which will take place from 3 – 14 August 2020 at the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel In this seminar, we will inspect the kindred function of images across diverse and seemingly disparate texts. We will ask to what extent images provided the mortar between…