Preliminary Program
Wednesday, July 2
13.00-13.15 Volker Remmert/Irina Schmiedel: Introduction
Section I: Scientific Instruments, Chair: Matteo Valleriani
13.15-14.30 Lisbet Tarp/Laura Thomasen: Learning by doing – visual and textual strategies in instruction of art and science in the early modern period
14.30-14.45 coffee break
14.45-15.45 Jennifer Rabe: A piece of time: the universal equinoctial ringdial in portrait
16.15-17.45 José Ramón Marcaida: Christoffel Jegher and his woodcuts. The status of the artist in early seventeenth-century natural history (evening lecture, part of the IZWT Colloquium)
Thursday, July 3
Section II: Gardens, Plants and Animals, Chair: Karin Leonhard
10.00-11.00 Irina Schmiedel: New science vs. princely representation? Botany at the late Medici court in Florence
11.00-12.00 Marrigje Rikken: Animals in art: Antwerp and Prague as incubators of a new genre in drawings, prints and paintings
12.00-13.30 Lunch Break
13.30-14.30 Simone Kaiser: Light in the garden of the arts and sciences
14.30-15.00 Final Discussion