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     • The royal circle’s interests in alchemy must have further inspired Wijck, who introduced the depiction of alchemists in “foreign” dress into his paintings. These representations are as much an indication of alchemy’s Eastern origins as Wijck’s effort to showcase his own worldliness.
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   Why did Wijck paint alchemists in foreign dress?

   • The royal circle’s interests in alchemy must have further inspired Wijck, who introduced the depiction of alchemists in “foreign” dress into his paintings. These representations are as much an indication of alchemy’s Eastern origins as Wijck’s effort to showcase his own worldliness.

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   Did Wijck paint alchemists?

   • Drago refutes the long-held claim that Wijck produced his paintings of alchemists during the latter part of his career, following a journey to London in the early 1660s. Instead, she convincingly argues that Wijck’s interest in alchemy began as a young artist in Haarlem in the mid-1640s and continued steadily throughout his life.

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   What are the different types of alchemists in Wijck's paintings?

   • Drago organizes the paintings into three distinct categories: the alchemist as family man, artisan, and scholar. Inhabiting “hybrid domestic-experimental spaces,” Wijck’s alchemists, often portrayed with their families, also function as hybrid figures.

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   How many colors are in painted alchemists?

   • The heart of Painted Alchemists is the discussion of Wijck’s work in chapter three, which is supported by thirty-two color illustrations located in the middle of the book, as well as black and white images throughout the text. Drago organizes the paintings into three distinct categories: the alchemist as family man, artisan, and scholar.

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   What is the connection between art and alchemy?

   • The close parallels between art and alchemy are evident in Wijck’s material and technical knowledge, including his frequent use of vermillion and effort to depict the play of light and reflection across different surfaces and textures: the laboratory’s basins, alembics, powders, books, and papers become an indication of Wijck’s artistic virtuosity.

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   How many chapters are in painted alchemists?

   • Painted Alchemists loosely follows Wijck’s career over the course of six chapters, in addition to an introduction and epilogue. The first chapter investigates the polemical attitudes towards early modern alchemy, what Drago earlier describes as “a set of speculative tools by which individuals manipulated their environments” (16).

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   Nov 21, 2020 · Among them was the young Thomas Wijck (1616-1677), a student of Adriaen van Ostade and peer of Cornelis Bega. A thoroughly “modern” painter, in De Lairesse’s terms, Wijck's focus on alchemy and cultures of workmanship and artisanal trade marks his distinctive approach.

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   The numerous alchemical paintings of Thomas Wijck (1616-1677) offer a major source for laboratory imagery in the early modern North, yet they remain misunderstood. Alchemy was more than an obsessive quest for immortality or gold—it was a set of tools by which individuals manipulated nature.

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   Wijck’s explorations of innovative themes continued in London, a period in which he worked in the orbit of John Maitland, advisor to Charles II. e royal circle’s interests in alchemy must have further inspired Wijck, who introduced the depiction of alchemists in “foreign” dress into his paintings. ese representations are as much an ...

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   Painted Alchemists: Early Modern Artistry and Experiment in the Work of Thomas Wijck. Elisabeth Berry Drago. Amsterdam Studies in the Dutch Golden Age. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019. 282 pp. €95. | Renaissance Quarterly | Cambridge Core.

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   While alchemical emblems have frequently been mined by historians of science for their intriguing symbolic meanings, art-historical scholarship has long minimized naturalistic images of alchemy such as Wijck’s, owing in part to a belief in genre painting’s essential (and restrictive) conventionality.

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   Jun 23, 2020 · Painted Alchemists: Early Modern Artistry and Experiment in the Work of Thomas Wijck. By Elisabeth Berry Drago. Pp. 281, illus. Amsterdam University Press: Amsterdam. 2019. £90.00. ISBN 978-9-46-298649-7. William R. Newman. Pages 316-317 | Published online: 23 Jun 2020. Download citation. https://doi.org/10.1080/00026980.2020.1769929. Full Article.