Dissertation by Brandi L. Moody.

"Shakespeare, in his sonnets, employs alchemical references in the sonnets that ultimately fail, in order to show how fruitless it is to pursue immortality. The poet urges the fair friend, who himself is like the self-consuming ouroboros, to father a child that will continue his legacy and allow the fair friend to live on via the child. Language associated with the child is alchemical, referencing distillation, vials, flasks, and the renewing power of the philosopher’s stone. The dark lady, the opposite of the fair friend in every way, can be explained as fulfilling alchemy’s union of opposites needed for a philosopher’s stone to be created. However, when the fabled medicinal baths cannot cure the poet of the ill love he has contracted from the dark lady, it becomes clear that, just as there is no philosopher’s stone, there is no immortality."

https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/1315/

"Our first analysis will be of the bird imagery in Michael Maier’s alchemical, emblematic art. For this study we will focus on his etching for the “9th key of Basil Valentine.” Basil Valentinus, an alchemist of the 16th century, inspired many later alchemists from the 17th century. Those who followed his work considered him a a true alchemist in possession of the secrets of the elixir of life, and that of the lapis philosophorum: also known as the Philosopher’s Stone."

http://www.tetraskele.com/sacred_science...ier_1.html

https://www.abocamuseum.it/en/museum

According to this attractive website the stuffed crocodile (see Teniers passim) signifies vegetal fertility and the power of plants.

Does anyone know of a translation into any language of Gerhard Dorn's 'De artificio supernaturali'?

The Alchemist.

Jacob Toorenvliet, Leiden, 1640-1719

with a brief essay.

https://www.nicholashall.art/all-that-gl...alchemist/

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THE IMAGE AND IDENTITY OF THE ALCHEMIST IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY NETHERLANDISH ART

Dana Kelly-Ann Rehn


"This dissertation explores the representation of the alchemist in Netherlandish art during the heyday of alchemy in seventeenth-century Europe amidst the
Scientific Revolution. While contemporary debates regarding the position that alchemy and magic in general had on the development of modern science has held
particular interest for scholars working in the discipline of the history of science, the rich iconographic tradition of the alchemist in seventeenth-century Netherlandish
painting has not been explored in detail from a wider socio-cultural perspective. It is for this reason that the image and identity of the alchemist is analysed in selected
seventeenth-century Netherlandish paintings in order to not only explore their position within the Scientific Revolution, but also to shed light on their meaning and function
within the socio-cultural context of the Golden Age in the Netherlands."




https://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/...2whole.pdf

By Corlett Novis


https://medium.com/meaning-of-the-method...212080feaa

   

https://www.kollerauktionen.ch/fr/338514...?RecPos=22

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Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, L'alchimiste, 1882-1886


https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Lalchi...56C6D37F65