Art and Technology in Early Modern Europe

In 12 essays by a distinguished group of art historians, Art and Technology in Early Modern Europe explores the relationship between artistic and technological advances from the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution. Provides a broad definition of technology for this period and addresses the influence of technological shifts on the history of early modern art Covers c.1420-1820, the time period between the advent of the printed image and that of the photographically produced image Discusses a wide range of early modern artists’ tools, instruments, skills, and techniques and their historical applications Highlights a frequently overlooked aspect of research within art history that yields substantial insights into the analysis of the making and viewing of art

6 Notes on Contributors 8 Chapter 1 After Prometheus: Art and Technology in Early Modern Europe Genevieve Warwick and Richard Taws 20 Chapter 2 Historians in the Laboratory: Reconstruction of Renaissance Art and Technology in the Making and Knowing Project Pamela H. Smith and The Making and Knowing Project 44 Chapter 3 Works in Progress: Painting and Modelling in Seventeenth-Century Holland Jan Blanc 64 Chapter 4 Looking in the Mirror of Renaissance Art Genevieve Warwick 92 Chapter 5 Squaring the Circle: The Telescopic View in Early Modern Landscapes Amy Knight Powell 112 Chapter 6 After Galileo: The Image of Science in Niccolò Tornioli’s Astronomers Giulia Martina Weston 128 Chapter 7 The Monument to Louis XIV at the Place Vendôme (1699) as a Technical Achievement: A Question of Interest Etienne Jollet 150 Chapter 8 A Clock Picture as a Philosophical Experiment: The Tableau Mécanique in the Physics Cabinet of Bonnier de la Mosson Hanneke Grootenboer 166 Chapter 9 Of Air Pumps and Teapots: Joseph Wright of Derby, John Singleton Copley and the Technology of Seeing Bryan J. Wolf 186 Chapter 10 Technologies of Illusion: De Loutherbourg’s Eidophusikon in Eighteenth-Century London Ann Bermingham 210 Chapter 11 Telegraphic Images in Post-Revolutionary France Richard Taws 232 Chapter 12 Seizing Attention: Devices and Desires Barbara Maria Stafford 239 Index