Jenny Boulboullé will present the co-authored Poster ‘The ARTECHNE Database: An Online Tool for Art Technological Source Research. Case study: Materials in the Mayerne Manuscript’ (Jenny Boulboullé, Marieke Hendriksen, Martijn van…

at the LEARNING/TEACHING MATERIALS: A SKILLSHARE WORKSHOP In the workshop, Sven Dupré, Jenny Boulboullé and Thijs Hagendijk will be exploring imaginative ethnography as a way to unpack the silent dimensions that…

New blogs online by Thijs Hagendijk (‘Vicissitudes in Soldering: Reading and Working with a Historical Gold- and Silversmithing Manual’), Marieke Hendriksen: ‘The Devil is in the Details: Turpentine Varnish’, and Jenny Boulboullé…

Surekha Davies (Western Connecticut State University), Vasileios Syros (Academy of Finland) and Anita Guerrini (Oregon State University) will soon be visiting the ARTECHNE project team. All guest researchers have been granted a Descartes…

Starting in October, Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen will receive a grant from NWO for her PhD project ‘Everlasting Flowers Between the Pages: Botanical Watercolors in the Seventeenth-Century Low Countries’. Sven Dupré…

The June 2018 edition of Isis has just been published online, containing an introduction by Sven Dupré on ‘Science and Practices of Translation’. Historically speaking, scientists have lived and worked in…

The June 2018 edition of Isis has just been published online, containing Marieke Hendriksen’s latest article: M.M.A. Hendriksen, “Criticizing chrysopoeia? Alchemy, chemistry, academics and satire in the Northern Netherlands, 1650-1750,” Isis….

Colour reproductions of historical recipes and dialogue about practical skills – two-day workshop Eight natural sources of red dye, namely brazilwood, madder, safflower, annatto, lac dye, American cochineal and kermes…

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),…

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…