Title: Transmutations--alchemy in art
First published: 2002
Description: Alchemy made important contributions to the development of modern science while firing popular imagination so strongly that portrayals of the alchemist at work pervaded the arts. The more celebrated goals of alchemy, like transmutation of base metals into gold, still tease and tantalize. This book offers a thoughtful look at the role of the alchemist in the 17th and 18th centuries, as depicted in a selection of paintings from the Eddleman and Fisher Collections housed at the Chemical Heritage Foundation.
Subjects: Chemical Heritage Foundation, Dutch Painting, Alchemy in art, Painting, Dutch, Art collections, Private collections, Chemistry, Painting, History, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General, Art, Art & Art Instruction, Subjects & Themes - General, General, Eddleman, Roy, Fisher, Chester G, Science / General, 17th century, Alchemy, Medicine in the Arts, History, 16th Century, History, 17th Century, Paintings, Medicine in Art
Places: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
People: Chester G. Fisher (1881-1965), Roy Eddleman (1940-)
Time periods: 17th century
LC classification: ND1460.A43 P75 2002