Art & Alchemy

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Art & Alchemy is written by Jacob Wamberg and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 8763502674 (ISBN 10) and 9788763502672 (ISBN 13).

These richly illustrated articles cover the representation of alchemy in art from the late Middle Ages to the 20th century. The authors, who are artists, curators and art historians from the US and Europe, address such topics as alchemical gender symbolism in Renaissance, Mannerist and modernist art; Netherlandish 17th-century portrayals of alchemists; and alchemy as the forerunner of photography. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.