The Technical Art History Colloquium is organised by Sven Dupré (Utrecht University and University of Amsterdam, PI ERC ARTECHNE), Arjan de Koomen (University of Amsterdam, Coordinator MA Technical Art History), Abbie Vandivere (University of Amsterdam, Coordinator MA Technical Art History & Mauritshuis, The Hague, Paintings Conservator), Erma Hermens (University of Amsterdam and Rijksmuseum) and Ann-Sophie…

After the successful results of the pilot one-day workshop “The Art of Dyeing Silk” in November, the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands (Rijksdienst voor het Culturele Erfgoed, RCE) organized a new edition on on 5 and 6 of April 2018 at the Atelierbuilding (Ateliergebouw), Amsterdam. The workshop was given by researchers Ana Serrano, Art Néss Proaño Gaibor…

In the early modern period it was a topos that the apprentice could only learn a craft by making mistakes. “Even if I used a thousand reams of paper to write down all the accidents that have happened to me in learning this art,” the French potter Bernard Palissy famously wrote, “you must be assured…

In the HAA 2017-2018 Lecture Series, 5 speakers will engage with a different sense and explore material or artistic evidence for the sense they discuss. This fifth talk in the series, by Sven Dupré, will consider sight. His presentation is titled ‘Glassy Worlds’. Glassy Worlds Visual qualities were the most important elements in the description of gemstones as…

On February 8, the ARTECHNE team visited the Weeflab of Monica Auch  in order to better their understanding of weaving techniques. For Auch, the worlds of art and medicine are intextricably bound together with both professions requiring the same core skills: a knack of understanding humans and their environment, scientific curiosity, heightened haptic senses and well-developed spatial orientation. Some impressions…