THE ALCHEMIST’S WIFE: GENDER AND SACRED SPACE IN SEVENTEENTHCENTURY ALCHEMICAL ART

BY ELISABETH ROSE GENTER

"In seventeenth-century Europe, the practice of alchemy was commonplace among scholars, noblemen, and the clergy alike. A number of Dutch artists took interest in the subject and produced a variety of alchemical “genre” scenes, which depict the alchemist in his home laboratory, accompanied occasionally by his wife, children, and assistants. Dutch alchemical genre scenes serve a unique purpose in the study of art, as they showcase a versatile, complex space that gives us a look into Early Modern concepts of gender, domesticity, science, and religion."

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https://ufdcimages.uflib.ufl.edu/NC/F0/0...nter_E.pdf

From the book Multilingualism in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age

"Paracelsus wrote in his own language. He not only peppered his early-new-high-German prose with Latin Frühneuhochdeutsch terms and tags but salted them with neologisms that drew from many languages—Greek and Latin for the medical and scientific terminology, Greek and Hebrew for classical and biblical references, and the vernacular tongues for elements of folklore and popular culture...This paper discusses the first dictionaries and offers readings of a sample text which, as readers and translators have long agreed, makes little sense until the code is broken and the words’ etymological meanings are at least conjectured."

https://www.academia.edu/35827893/Hard_P...ern_Guides

The Iconography of Coniunctio Oppositorum: Visual and Verbal Dialogues in Ithell Colquhoun’s Oeuvre

Victoria Ferentinou

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https://brill.com/display/book/978900433...3-s017.xml

"Dom Pernety reassures us that “this [Philosopher's Stone] is the center and source of virtues, since those who possess it scorn all the vanities of the world, vain glory, ambition; since they esteem gold no more than sand or dust”. Moreover, “Hermetic Philosophy is therefore, the school of piety and religion.”


https://www.theoldcraft.com/2018/02/23/d...s-avignon/

"Acknowledged as the "Artist of the Century," Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) left a legacy that dominates the art world to this day. Inventing the ironically dégagé attitude of "ready-made" art-making, Duchamp heralded the postmodern era and replaced Pablo Picasso as the role model for avant-garde artists. John F. Moffitt challenges commonly accepted interpretations of Duchamp's art and persona by showing that his mature art, after 1910, is largely drawn from the influence of the occult traditions. Moffitt demonstrates that the key to understanding the cryptic meaning of Duchamp's diverse artworks and writings is alchemy, the most pictorial of all the occult philosophies and sciences."


https://www.amazon.com/Alchemist-Avant-G...0791457109

https://www.wikiart.org/en/marcel-duchamp

"Among the lunatics of his day and age, Frick counts the ‘Alchymists, and other idle Writers, who believe that this world will remain, and therefore, endeavour to provide for worldly ease, though they see that the time for living here is but short; moreover, because they mix the Good with the Evil, acknowledging the Commands of our Saviour, and nevertheless meddle with gold making, which neither Christ nor his Apostles did.’"

Philipp Joseph Frick (1742-1798)
Music and millenarianism in the late eighteenth century
By Cis van Heertum


https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_med009199901...1_0014.php

Numerous references to Pernety, Cagliostro, etc.

Searchable, full text.

https://maint.loc.gov/law/mlr/Lieber_Col...ederic.pdf

Chapter 5 of "Respectable Folly: Millenarians and the French Revolution in France and England". Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. Project MUSE. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/book.67841

"Pernety gradually assembled a circle of followers in Berlin. At his instigation, they launched what one historian has called "a sort of religion of the occult, a mixture of casuistry, ecstasy, astrology, cabalism, and alchemy." Pernety's circle acquired two protectors: an angel named Assadai, who Pernety said aided him in his work; and Prince Henry, brother of the king."


https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/oa_monograph/...391143/pdf

Irene Zanon.

Full text in English.

"[Newton]  started pursuing alchemical research from about 1670 and began writing on apocalyptical exegesis from 1672 shortly after his annus mirabilis of 1667 in which he “invented his “fluxions” (the calculus), discovered white light to be compounded of all the distinctly colored rays of the spectrum, and found a mathematical law of gravity, at least in a tentative form.”


http://dspace.unive.it/bitstream/handle/...sequence=1

Author: Cavalli, Thom F.

Source: Psychological Perspectives, Volume 59, Number 1, 2 January 2016, pp. 46-70(25)

Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd


"Historians have been revising the contribution made by alchemists to the Scientific Revolution, noting that alchemy was far more than a prelude to the development of modern chemistry. The present study reexamines alchemy's history, beginning with an unusual fifth-dynasty Egyptian painting located in the tomb of Queen Nefertari."

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