Elemental Forces, Session 3: Depth

Elemental Forces Symposium, Session 3: Depth
Saturday, May 8, 2021
Newberry Library, Center for Renaissance Studies
MODERATOR: Lydia Barnett, Northwestern University
FEATURING:
Monica Azzolini, University of Bologna: "Below the Surface, Unseen: Astrology and Meteorology in Ulisse Aldrovandi’s Stone and Mineral Collection"
Janna Israel, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: "'The Repository of all Treasures': The Art of Early Modern Extraction"
Christopher Heuer, University of Rochester: "Dürer, Abstract Geologist"
ABOUT ELEMENTAL FORCES
This international symposium explores questions of early modern matter by focusing on the four elements (earth, air, water, and fire) and their properties, combinations, and transformations. For early modern people, how were the elements at work-not only in the subject matter of artworks, manuscripts, and books, but also in their material existence, their fabrication and their ongoing existence, and, indeed, their makers and viewers?
This program is co-organized by Thalia Allington-Wood (Oxford Brookes University), Sophie Morris (Victoria and Albert Museum), Claudia Swan (Washington University), and Rebecca Zorach (Northwestern University). The symposium is co-sponsored by Northwestern University, the Mary Jane Crowe Fund for Art History, and the Myers Foundations.
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