Early Modern Color Worlds

Many challenges hinder the historical study of early modern color. These essays offer a way forward through the category of ‘color worlds’—constituted by practices, concepts and objects—and examine the emergence of the languages and objects used to communicate between them.

Tawrin BakerTawrin Baker is a Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. He received his PhD in the History and Philosophy of Science from Indiana University, Bloomington in 2014.Barbara H. BerrieBarbara H. Berrie is head of scientific research at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Her research interests include preservation methods for works of art and the history of pigments. She is the editor of volume four of Artists’ Pigments: a handbook of their history and characteristics.Fokko Jan DijksterhuisFokko Jan Dijksterhuis is professor in knowledge history (University of Twente; Free University). After a dissertation on Christiaan Huygens and seventeenth-century optics he investigated the cultural history of mathematization. He is interested in early modern knowledge practices, and everything related to light, color and vision.Karin LeonhardKarin Leonhard is Professor for Art History at Konstanz University, Germany. A main focus of her research lies on the history and theory of space and perspective, light and color; and, more generally, the interrelation between art theory and natural philosophy.Andrew MorrallAndrew Morrall is Professor of early modern European art and material culture at the Bard Graduate Center, New York.Doris OltroggeDoris Oltrogge is an art historian and researcher at the CICS (Cologne Institute of Conservation Sciences). Her fields of research include art technological sources, painting materials, and the technique of book illumination.Valentina PuglianoFollowing one postdoctoral year at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Valentina Pugliano relocated to the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge in 2013 as a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow and a JRF at Christ’s College. She is currently completing two monographs: the first based on her doctoral research at Oxford on artisanal participation in early modern natural history; and a second, based on a Wellcome-funded research project, on Venetian medicine and science in the eastern Mediterranean and the Mamluk and Ottoman Levant, ca. 1400–1730.Anna Marie RoosAnna Marie Roos PhD FSA FLS is a Reader of the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Lincoln, UK.Romana Sammern (Filzmoser)Romana Sammern (Filzmoser), is research fellow at the University of Salzburg. She teaches fourteenth- to eighteenth-century western European art history and cultural studies; her fields of research concern art theory, the relations of image, text and objects as well as the materiality of artworks.Simon WerrettSimon Werrett is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at University College London. He has been a fellow of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He is the author of Fireworks: Pyrotechnic Arts and Sciences in European History (Chicago, 2010) and is currently writing a book on the sustainability of science.