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Book SynopsisColor has recently become the focus of scholarly discussion in many fields, but the categories of art, craft, science and technology, unreflectively defined according to modern disciplines, have not been helpful in understanding color in the early modern period. ‘Color worlds’, consisting of practices, concepts and objects, form the central category of analysis in this volume. The essays examine a rich variety of ‘color worlds’, and their constituent engagements with materials, productions and the ordering and conceptualization of color. Many color worlds appear to have intersected and cross-fertilized at the beginning of the seventeenth century; the essays focus especially on the creation of color languages and boundary objects to communicate across color worlds, or indeed when and why this failed to happen. Contributors include: Tawrin Baker, Barbara H. Berrie, Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis, Karin Leonhard, Andrew Morrall, Doris Oltrogge, Valentina Pugliano, Anna Marie Roos, Romana Sammern (Filzmoser) and Simon Werrett.
Trade Review"This volume focuses on a relatively unstudied topic and treats it from fresh perspectives. The book as a whole underscores the complexity of color and the extensive relationships that color can bring to light among the worlds of learning, naturalexperimental philosophies, and artisanal practices." - Pamela O. Long, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. LXX, No. 4, pp. 1520-1522
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Early Modern Color Worlds 1 Tawrin Baker, Sven Dupré, Sachiko Kusukawa, Karin Leonhard Mining for Color: New Blues, Yellows, and Translucent Paint 20 Barbara H. Berrie Writing on Pigments in Natural History and Art Technology in Sixteenth-Century Germany and Switzerland 47 Doris Oltrogge Ulisse Aldrovandi’s Color Sensibility: Natural History, Language and the Lay Color Practices of Renaissance Virtuosi 70 Valentina Pugliano Red, White and Black: Colors of Beauty, Tints of Health and Cosmetic Materials in Early Modern English Art Writing 109 Romana Sammern Painted Gems. The Color Worlds of Portrait Miniature Painting in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Britain 140 Karin Leonhard Fireworks and Color in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 170 Simon Werrett ‘Siben Farben und Künsten frey’: The Place of Color in Martin Schaffner’s Universe Tabletop of 1533 190 Andrew Morrall Understandings of Colors: Varieties of Theories in the Color Worlds of the Early Seventeenth Century 227 Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis Color and Contingency in Robert Boyle’s Works 248 Tawrin Baker The Saline Chymistry of Color in Seventeenth-Century English Natural History 274 Anna Marie Roos
