Medical alchemy and quintessence in renaissance florence: the Alchemist’s laboratory painting of Johannes Stradanus (1570)

In 1570, Johannes Stradanus (1523–1605), a Flemish-born artist settled in Florence, produced two paintings meant to adorn the new Studiolo of Prince Francesco I de’ Medici (1541–87). The best-known painting is The Alchemist’s Laboratory, a depiction of the laboratory then existing at the Palazzo Vec...

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Main Author: Georgiana D. Hedesan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press
Series:BJHS Themes
Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2058850X25100192/type/journal_article
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