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Lecture by Sven Dupré at the Deutches Museum, 30 April on ‘Failure and the Imperfections of Artisanal Knowledge in the Early Modern Period’
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…
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Sven Dupré on ‘Glassy Worlds’ at HAA Lecture Series: The Senses – May 29, University of California, Santa Barbara
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…
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Impressions from the ARTECHNE team’s visit to Monika Auch’s Weeflab
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…
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Workshop ‘The art of dyeing silk’: Colour reproductions of historical recipes and dialogue about practical skills, 5 – 6 April, Amsterdam
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…
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Sven Dupré neemt deel aan publieksdialoog georganiseerd door De Nieuwe Utrechtse School: ‘Heelkunst, beeldende kunst en de klinische blik’, 25 april 2018.
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…
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Sven Dupré will participate as discussant in workshop ‘The Housing of Technology in Art’, 23 March 2018, University of Copenhagen
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…
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Marieke Hendriksen awarded an Aspasia talent development grant for a visiting fellowship to Center for Science and Society, Columbia University
Marieke Hendriksen has been awarded a departmental Aspasia talent development grant for a visiting fellowship to the Center for Science and Society at Columbia University in New York city in…
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Renaissance Society of America has awarded Marieke Hendriksen a Digital Humanities Summer Institute Fellowship
Marieke Hendriksen has been awarded a Digital Humanities Summer Institute Fellowship by the Renaissance Society of America. She will use her fellowship to attend a one-week course on Linked Open…
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TECHNICAL ART HISTORY COLLOQUIUM XIX: ‘Materials and Materiality’, 12 April, Utrecht
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),…
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Lecture by Sven Dupré: ‘How X-Ray Imagery Changed the Practice of Art History’, 13 June at the Warburg Institute, London.
The International Research Group ‘Bilderfahrzeuge’ has invited Sven Dupré to give a talk during the course of its 2017-18 lecture series at the Warburg Institute, London. The research project ‘Bilderfahrzeuge. Aby Warburg’s…
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