TY  - BOOK
AU  - Berry Drago
TI  - Painted Alchemists: Early Modern Artistry and Experiment in the Work of Thomas Wijck 
T2  - Amsterdam Studies in the Dutch Golden Age
SN  - 9789048537778
AV  - ND646 .D734 2019
U1  - 759.9492 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Amsterdam : 
PB  - Amsterdam University Press, 
KW  - Painting, Dutch
KW  - 17th century
KW  - Art and Material Culture
KW  - Early Modern Studies
KW  - History, Art History, and Archaeology
KW  - ART / History / Baroque & Rococo
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Artistry and Experiment in the Work of Thomas Wijck
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; 1. Curiosity and Convention --; 2. Thomas Wijck, "Artful" and "Ingenious" --; 3. Wijck's Alchemical Artisans --; 4. An Experiment in Haarlem --; 5. The Artist's Laboratories Abroad --; 6. The Master of Nature --; Epilogue --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Thomas Wijck's painted alchemical laboratories were celebrated in his day as "artful" and "ingenious." They fell into obscurity along with their subject, as alchemy came to be viewed as an occult art or a fool's errand. But these unusual pictures challenge our understanding of early modern alchemy-and of the deeper relationship between chemical workshops and the artists who represented them. The work of artists, like the work of alchemists, contained intellectual-creative and manual-material aspects. Both alchemists and artists claimed a special status owing to their creative powers. Wijck's formation of an artistic and professional identity around alchemical themes reveals his desire to explore this curious territory, and ultimately to demonstrate art's superior claims to knowledge and mastery over nature. This book explores one artist's transformation of alchemy and its materials into a reputation for virtuosity-and what his work can teach us about the experimental early modern world
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048537778?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048537778
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789048537778/original
ER  -