CFP: Gold in Renaissance Western Europe. Interdisciplinary Approaches (Paris, 9-10 Jun 2022)
In his influential book on painting and visual culture in fifteenth-century Italy (Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy, 1972), Michael Baxandall described the abandonment of gold in painting practices as a sensitive phenomenon…
PUBL: Two new articles in ‚Oud Holland‘ (2020, no. 2): Angela Jager – Selling paintings to Sweden / Carrie Anderson – Between optic and haptic: Tactility and trade in the Dutch West India Company’s gold box (1749)
Angela Jager – Selling paintings to Sweden: Toussaint Gelton’s correspondence with Pontus Fredrik de la Gardie – pp. 108-126 SummaryThis article discusses the contents of four unpublished letters by the painter Toussaint Gelton…