Art DATIS is looking for a postdoctoral researcher. You will work within the project Art DATIS (Digital Art Technical sources for the Netherlands: Integration and improvement of sources on glass for a Sustainable future). Art DATIS is a research project (2018-2023) within the NWO Big Data/Digital Humanities programme. The project is a collaboration between the…

Lecture/Reconstruction demonstration during the Utrecht Centre for Early Modern Studies publieksdag by dr. Marieke Hendriksen & dr. Jenny Boulboullé. The presentation comprises a reconstruction demonstration in which we make an excellent red ink (‘Rosette Excellente’) following a recipe from an early seventeenth-century manuscript, Sloane MS 2052, better known to art historians as the ‘Mayerne Manuscript’,…

THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN THE HUMANITIES INSTITUTE — LUESTHER T. MERTZ LIBRARY CALL FOR FELLOWS 2018 The Humanities Institute, a research division within the LuEsther T. Mertz Library at The New York Botanical Garden, is pleased to offer a full-time, residential Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for 2018 for current Ph.D. students or recent post-doctoral…

 A two-day workshop on the art, science, trade and consumption of gems in the early modern world   In the early modern period, as today, gems were the ultimate ‘hybrid objects.’ They played key roles in decorative art, global trade, and science and medicine. The aim of this workshop was to connect the many roles…