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…

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…

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…

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…

After the successful results of the pilot one-day workshop “The Art of Dyeing Silk” in November (check here for a review of this workshop), the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands (Rijksdienst…

Achtergrond De dialoog tussen de geneeskunde, de kunsten en de geesteswetenschappen is al eeuwenoud, en strekt zich uit van Aristoteles’ filosofische overtuiging dat de tragedie als kunstvorm de ziel zou…

The workshop aims to explore the intersections and tensions between art and technology in the early modern era. It aims to bring together papers that nuance the standard narrative about…