Workshop: Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe
20-21 September 2013, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
This workshop takes colour practices, cutting across the categories of art, craft, science and technology, as its central category of analysis. The contributions deal with a diversity of practices, ranging from painting, limning and colour printing to medical diagnosis and optical or meteorological observation as well as botanical and anatomical drawing, in the period between 1450 and 1650. Aiming at opening up the black box of an allegedly monolithic ‘Aristotelian colour theory’ preceding Newton, the workshop will elucidate how early modern colour practices in dialogue with the reception of Aristotelian theories of vision and colour theory shaped a plurality of colour concepts.
Max Planck Research Group Art and Knowledge in Pre-modern Europe
Early Modern Colour Practices, 1450-1650
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