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While a university student, by chance I took an elective course in glassblowing. One of the first things I remember is learning how to hold the heavy metal blowpipe. Against the soundtrack of a loud and blisteringly hot furnace – similar to what the ancient Romans who invented glassblowing likely experienced – I was introduced […]
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What modes of scientific knowledge can images of architecture embody? An etching that Strasbourg artist Wendel Dietterlin the Elder released in the second, 1594 instalment of his serially published Architectura treatise [Fig. 1] suggests some answers to this question. The etching portrays what at first appears to be a fantastic portal, formed from wood with […]
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As the diminutive early Christian saint Giustina teeters between life and death in Paolo Veronese’s painting depicting her martyrdom, her gaze sets itself upon one of the most spectacular scenes of the heavens painted in all of the Renaissance. A massive altarpiece, the largest of the painter’s career, in it the skies have opened to […]
Read MoreOn Wednesday, the 29th of October 1567, the Venetian patrician Francesco Pisani lay mortally ill in his country house in Montagnana, 50 miles southwest of Venice. He summoned his long-time notary, Giovanni Maria Corradin, to draft a codicil to his final will. Corradin called six witnesses to Pisani’s bedside: a cast of characters including his […]
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