Every year, specialists from research institutes, universities, and industry meet at the Iron Library at the Klostergut Paradies near Schaffhausen for the annual Conference on the History of Technology. These conferences, devoted to a range of different subjects, have been held since 1978 and are renowned for the breadth of the papers and their topicality….

Omar Olivares will join the ARTECHNE project in August for four months as a visiting research fellow. About the researcher Currently, Omar Olivares works as a PhD candidate in Art History at the National University of Mexico (UNAM). The subject of his research is the global circulation of scientific visuality in late nineteenth century, specifically on the scientific images produced by a mexican landscape…

Katrien Vanagt will join the Descartes Center and the ERC ARTECHNE project in September for three months as a visiting fellow. About the researcher Katrien Vanagt (Belgium, 1977) studied Romance Philology, and Cultural and Intellectual History of the Renaissance in Ghent, Paris and London. In one of her research projects, Vanagt reconstructed historical experiments dealing with eyes and…

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), and Abbie Vandivere (University of Amsterdam, Coordinator MA Technical Art History & Paintings Conservator, Mauritshuis, The Hague). Monthly meetings take place on Thursdays, usually in…

Binnenkort verschijnt het voorjaarsnummer van tijdschrift Article, met het thema ‘De hand van de meester’. In dit nummer besteden diverse auteurs aandacht aan de theorieën over kunst en kunstenaarschap die ten grondslag liggen aan het idee van ‘de meester’. Wat zeggen we eigenlijk wanneer we iemand een meester noemen? Ook kunstenaars maken handig gebruik van het prestige van dit etiket…