Taking ‘blue’ as its focus, the workshop ‘Intersecting Worlds of Colour in the 18th Century’ will explore the artistic, scientific, and social histories of colour in the eighteenth century, and above all, the intersections between them. What happens when artists’ colours are considered as interdisciplinary substances? What relationships exist, for instance, between a colour’s physico-chemical…

**Due to the development of the coronavirus, this workshop is postponed until further notice** *This workshop is full. Registration to participate is no longer possible. * In recent years, the move towards a “history of knowledge” for a more inclusive approach to the intertwined nature of art and science has been advocated by Peter Burke,…

Imaginative Ethnographies of Making (in History)  This workshop with Sven Dupré, Thijs Hagendijk and Jenny Boulboullé was part of a larger event called ‘Learning/Teaching Materials’, held at the Hotel School in Maastricht in July 2018. It was hosted by the Maastricht-University-based and ERC-funded project Making Clinical Sense. For further documentation of the event and other…

Het Brugse Ma-festival focust dit jaar op goden, mensen en machines. Sven Duprè presenteert op VRT Klara Radio in vijf korte afleveringen van ‘Ex Machina in de baroktijd’ enkele technische hoogstandjes uit de baroktijd, zoals de piramidevormige parachute van Leonardo Da Vinci en de hyperbolische lensslijpmachine van René Descartes. Alle afleveringen zijn te beluisteren via…

This summer Brepols Publishers has published Perspective as Practice. Renaissance Cultures of Optics, edited by Prof Sven Dupré This book is about the development of optics and perspective between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. The point of departure is the recognition of the polysemy of perspective, that is, the plurality of meanings of perspective. To bring…