Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
FAIN: GI-50097-10
President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, MA 02138-3800)
Susan Dackerman (Project Director: September 2008 to June 2013)
Implementation of a traveling exhibition, a colloquium, a catalog, an interactive website, and educational and public programs exploring the alliance between printmakers and scientists in the 16th century.
The Harvard Art Museum will organize, present, and circulate a groundbreaking interpretive exhibition that will transform traditional assumptions about the role of artists in the production of new forms of knowledge during the Renaissance's Scientific Revolution. The museum requests funds for the implementation of the major traveling exhibition, Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, and for support of its related publications and public programming. The exhibition, which opens jointly at Harvard's Sackler Museum and Wellesley College's Davis Art Museum, addresses the participation of such celebrated northern European artists as Albrecht Dürer, Hendrick Goltzius, and Hans Holbein in the scientific inquiries of the sixteenth century, especially as manifested in their printed works. Such an investigation reveals the previously unexamined close working relationships between the artistic and scientific communities, and the exchanges of influence between them.
Associated Products
Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe (Catalog)Title: Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Author: Susan Dackerman
Abstract: The exhibition is accompanied by a 440-page catalogue, Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, edited by Susan Dackerman, Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Curator of Prints at the Harvard Art Museums. It provides a broad overview of the exchange of ideas between the artistic and scientific communities in sixteenth-century northern Europe, as well as analysis of 102 individual works, including those highlighted on this website. A collaboration among art historians, historians of science, and their students, the book includes essays by Dackerman, Lorraine Daston, Katharine Park, Suzanne Karr Schmidt, and Claudia Swan, as well as entries on all the prints and objects included in the show.
Year: 2011
Catalog Type: Exhibition Catalog
Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven, CT
Around the Block, Winter 2012 (Article)Title: Around the Block, Winter 2012
Author: Block Museum
Abstract: Activities of the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Winter 2012 including the schedule of academic and public programs for the exhibition Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe. An interview with the curator, Susan Dackerman, Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Curator of Prints, Harvard Art Museums, and Claudia Swan, exhibition catalogue contributor and associate professor of art history at Northwestern University.
Year: 2012
Format: Other
Prizes
Roland H. Bainton Prize in Art History
Date: 10/1/2012
Organization: The 16th Century Society
Abstract: The Roland H. Bainton Book Prizes are named in honor of one of the most irenic church historians of the twentieth century. Roland H. Bainton was professor of church history at the seminary of Yale University for many years, the advisor of many Ph.D. students, the author of over a dozen important books, and an ardent supporter of early modern studies.
Four prizes are awarded yearly for the best books written in English dealing with three categories within the time frame of 1450-1660: Art and Music History, History/Theology, Literature, and Reference Works. The prize-winning book in each category is chosen by a committee of three SCSC members appointed by the president of the SCSC who shall also designate one of the three to serve as chair.
International Fine Prints Dealers Association Annual Book Prize
Date: 10/1/2012
Organization: IFPDA