Early modern color worlds / / edited by Tawrin Baker, Sven Dupré, Sachiko Kusukawa, Karin Leonhard.
Color has recently become the focus of scholarly discussion in many fields, but the categories of art, craft, science and technology, unreflectively defined according to modern disciplines, have not been helpful in understanding color in the early modern period. ‘Color worlds’, consisting of practic...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden : : Brill,, [2015] |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (315 p.) |
| Notes: | Originally published as Volume XX, Nos. 4-6 (2015) of Brill's journal Early science and medicine. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction: Early Modern Color Worlds / Tawrin Baker , Sven Dupré , Sachiko Kusukawa and Karin Leonhard
- Mining for Color: New Blues, Yellows, and Translucent Paint / Barbara H. Berrie
- Writing on Pigments in Natural History and Art Technology in Sixteenth-Century Germany and Switzerland / Doris Oltrogge
- Ulisse Aldrovandi’s Color Sensibility: Natural History, Language and the Lay Color Practices of Renaissance Virtuosi / Valentina Pugliano
- Red, White and Black: Colors of Beauty, Tints of Health and Cosmetic Materials in Early Modern English Art Writing / Romana Sammern
- Painted Gems. The Color Worlds of Portrait Miniature Painting in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Britain / Karin Leonhard
- Fireworks and Color in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries / Simon Werrett
- ‘Siben Farben unnd Künsten frey’: The Place of Color in Martin Schaffner’s Universe Tabletop of 1533 / Andrew Morrall
- Understandings of Colors: Varieties of Theories in the Color Worlds of the Early Seventeenth Century / Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis
- Color and Contingency in Robert Boyle’s Works / Tawrin Baker
- The Saline Chymistry of Color in Seventeenth-Century English Natural History / Anna Marie Roos
- Index / Tawrin Baker , Sven Dupré , Sachiko Kusukawa and Karin Leonhard.