Art and Alchemy

By: Jacob Wamberg

Partly because of alchemy's dismissal from the Parnassus of rational sciences, the interplay between this esoteric knowledge and the visual arts is still a surprisingly neglected area. This collection of articles, covering the time span from the late Middle Ages to the twentieth century, challenges the current neglect. The contributors cast new light on a range or related topics, including alchemical gender symbolism in renaissance, mannerist, and modernist art; alchemical ideas of transformation in Italian fifteenth-century landscape imagery; Netherlandish seventeenth-century portrayals of alchemists; and alchemy's tortured status as a forerunner of photography.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8763502674
• ISBN13: 9788763502672
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
• Length: 297 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 9.0"