Day 1: 16 June 2025
Venice, Palazzo Giustinian Lolin (University of Warwick Venice Centre)
| 11.00 |
Coffee |
| Session 1. Allegorical Motifs in Alchemical Iconography Chair: Lawrence Principe (Johns Hopkins University) |
| 11.30 |
Sergei Zotov (The Warburg Institute, University of London) |
Opening remarks |
| 12.00 |
Matteo Martelli (University of Bologna) |
The Early Modern Reception of Byzantine Ouroboros Iconography |
| 12.30 |
Jose Gabriel Alegria (Stony Brook University / Bibliotheca Hertziana) |
A Triple Rebis: The Three Faces of the Trinity as a Late Alchemical Motif (16th-18th Centuries) |
| 13.00 |
Tom Fischer (École Pratique des Hautes Études-LEM) |
If Stones Could Speak: Alchemical Thought and Religious Sculptures In Pre-Revolutionary France |
| 13.30 |
Lunch, provided |
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| Session 2. Alchemy in Manuscript Illumination Chair: Matteo Martelli (University of Bologna) |
| 15.00 |
Ellen Hausner (University of Oxford, Wolfson College) |
Between Word and Image: Alchemical Characters in Early Modern Visual Culture |
| 15.30 |
Sergei Zotov (The Warburg Institute, University of London) |
When Silence Speaks: (How) Can We Study Alchemical Image Series Without Texts? |
| 16.00 |
Keynote, Jennifer Rampling (Princeton University) |
Signs and Tokens: Allegorical Imagery and Alchemical Practice |
| 17.30 |
Pub, not provided |
Day 2: 17 June 2025
Venice, Palazzo Giustinian Lolin (University of Warwick Venice Centre)
| 11.00 |
Coffee |
| Session 3. Text-Image Relationships in Alchemy Chair: Peter Forshaw (University of Amsterdam) |
| 11.30 |
Witalij Morosow (University of Bochum) |
The Principle of Coincidentia Oppositorum and the Metaphysics of Light in Alchemical Imagery of the Early Modern Period |
| 12.00 |
Amber Rozenrichter (University of Amsterdam)
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Within Her Womb, a Tree Grows: Feminine and Arboreal Allegory in the Alchemical Birth of the Philosopher’s Stone |
| 12.30 |
Laurence Chen (University College London) |
Pseudepigraphic Narratives: Allegory and Alchemical Myths in the Ashmole Collection |
| 13.00 |
Lunch, provided |
| Session 4. Visual Reception of Alchemy Chair: Jennifer Rampling (Princeton University) |
| 15.00 |
Vanessa A. Portugal (Trinity College Dublin) |
Mystical marriage between Nature and Grace. A Discussion on Spiritual Alchemy in an Early Modern Religious Print |
| 15.30 |
Emmanouela Kyriakopoulou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) |
Compassion or Condemnation? Reinterpreting Disease and Healing Through Folk and Alchemical Traditions |
| 16.00 |
Laura-Elena Oancea (University of Bucharest) |
Alchemical Allegories in the Sola-Busca Tarot: Stages and Symbols of the Magnum Opus
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| 16.30 |
Keynote, Peter Forshaw (University of Amsterdam) |
Theo- and Mytho-Alchemy, from Arnald of Villanova to Abraham le Juif |
| 18.00 |
End of meeting and final remarks |
| 18.30 |
Pub, not provided |
