In eastern German cities associated with the Protestant reform during the late 16th and early 17th centuries, explains Szulakowska (art history, U. of Leeds), an intricate visual world of alchemical s
Arguing that alchemy is a kind of poetic language, Szulakowska (U. of Leeds, the UK) traces the use of alchemy as a defining motif in the art of an impressive range of artists, including Surrealists a
Szulakowska, who is not identified, concentrates on the intellectual and spiritual concerns of the 1590s to 1620s using Heinrich Khunrath's Amphiteatrum Sapientae Aeternae (1595, 1609) as a focal poin
