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  • The Art of Alchemy

    October eleven, 2016–February 12, 2017

    Getty Inquiry Institute

    Eight roundels containing laboratory scenes, connected by chains to a book held by two alchemists in a larger, central roundel

    Alchemists Revealing Secrets from the Book of Seven Seals , The Ripley Gyre (detail), ca. 1700. 950053

  • Silver plate depicting Hermes Trismegistos teaching Ptolemy

    Hermes Trismegistos Teaching Ptolemy the World System, ca. 500–600. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 83.AM.342

  • Circular diagram of heavenly flames depicting primordial chaos

    Chaos, Paulus van der Doort, 1609. From Heinrich Khunrath, Amphitheatrum sapientiae aeternae . . . [The Amphitheater of Eternal Wisdom] (Hanover, 1609), pl. 9. 1380-905
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  • Circular diagram depicting the universe with YAHWEH above in the shape of a cloud chained to a depiction of Nature in the form of a naked woman with breast milk showering over the earth, who is chained to a monkey in the center of the image

    Fine art as the Mirror of All Nature, Matthaus Merian the Elder, 1617. From Robert Fludd, Utriusque cosmi majoris scilicet et minoris . . . historia, [The History of both the Greater and, Naturally, the Lesser Cosmos] (Oppenheim, 1617–1621), vol. i, pl. afterward p. 3. 1378-183
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  • Calculating Celestial Movement, watch how these volvelles rotate on your desktop computer

    Calculating Celestial Movement, Peter Hille, 1574. From Leonhard Thurneisser zum Thurn, [Der Planeten] Circkel und Lauff (Berlin, 1575), fol. iii. 92-F166
    Note: Lookout man these volvelles rotate on your desktop computer.

  • A mountain with seven terraces and a temple hidden within, whose steps each list a stage of the alchemical process. The seven planetary metals in human form stand on each terrace, while the zodiac is depicted in an arch around the mountain

    Conjunction, Raphael Custos. 1633. From Steffan Michelspacher, Cabala, Spiegel der Kunst und Natur in Alchymia . . . [Cabala, The Mirror of Art and Nature in Alchemy] (Augsburg, 1663), pl. 3. 1380-833
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  • Digitized book: Salomon Trismosin (attrib.), Aureum vellus . . . [The Golden Fleece] (Rorschach am Bodensee, 1598–1599). Image: Cutting up the Rex, 1598–1599, pp. 26–27. 41-266
    Notation: Click page to plough

  • Digitized book: Johann Michael Faust, Compendium alchymist novum sive Pandora . . . [A New Compendium for the Alchemist, or Pandora] (Frankfurt, 1706). Image: The Perfection of the Work, 1706, pl. T. 1385-531
    Note: Click folio to turn

  • Digitized Volume: [Book of Alchemical Formulas] (Naples, 1606). Epitome: Allegory of Distillation (left) and Mercury Workers (correct), Claudio de Domenico Celentano di Valle Nove, 1606, pp. eight–9. 950053
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  • Digitized volume: Donato d'Eremita, Dell'elixir vitae [On the Elixir of Life] (Naples, 1624). Paradigm: The Elixir of Life, 1624, pl. 1. 93-B17851
    Note: Click folio to turn

  • Brightly colored alchemical tools and equipment

  • An elaborate glass distillation device made of interconnected spheres and tubes

    Device for Distilling Lunar Humidity, Sigismund Bacstrom, 1797. Frontispiece of Johann Friedrich Fleischer, "Chemical Moonshine," 1797. 950053

  • Oil painting of an alchemist sitting in a dark and dingy workshop making synthetic cinnabar

    The Alchemist, Cornelis Bega, 1663. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 84.PB.56

  • A landscape of symbolic figures and a forest bearing symbols of the planetary metals, with a heavenly arc above, containing enigmatic alchemical allegories

    The Microcosm and the Macrocosm, Matthäus Merian the Elderberry, 1678. From Musaeum Hermeticum [The Hermetic Museum] (Frankfurt, 1678). pl. four. 1380-912
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  • A dark-skinned human figure marked with symbols of the elements

    The Unabridged Earthly, Natural, and Dark Homo, 1723. From Johann Georg Gichtel, Theosophia Practica [Practical Theosophy] (Leiden, 1723), pl. before p. 25. 2611-134

  • An alchemical doctor treats patients, one of whom has a faucet in his stomach spilling out rats, and another who sits in a bathtub wearing an alembic hood, purging delusional thoughts in a cloud of vapor

    The Dr. of Fools, Theodor de Bry, 1657. From Jacques Lagniet, Recueil des plus illustres proverbes, divises en trois livres [A Series of Illustrated Proverbs, Divided into Iii Books] (Paris, 1657–1663), pl. 15. 87-B9592

  • Digitized book: Leonhard Thurneisser zum Thurn, Quinta essentia [The 5th Element] (Leipzig, 1574). Prototype: The Eternal Hugger-mugger Speaks, pp. 26–27. 2871-095
    Note: Click page to turn

  • Digitized book: Michael Maier, Atalanta Fugiens [Fleeing Atalanta] (Oppenheim, 1618). Prototype: Merely as the Salamander Lives in Flame, And so Likewise the Stone, Matthäus Merian the Elderberry, pp. 124–125. 41-427
    Note: Click folio to plough

  • Digitized book: F. F. Runge, Der Bildungstrieb der Stoffe . . . [Nature's Urge for Pattern] (Oranienburg, 1855). Image: Nature'south Urge for Design, Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge (German, 1795–1867), title page. 2990-556
    Annotation: Click page to turn

  • Microscopic observations of liquid crystals with annotations in German

    Liquid Crystal Souls, Ernst Haeckel, 1917. From Ernst Haeckel, Kristallseelen [Crystal Souls] (Leipzig, 1917), frontispiece. Private drove, Los Angeles

The Art of Alchemy

October 11, 2016–February 12, 2017 , Getty Research Institute

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Long shrouded in secrecy, alchemy is at present recognized every bit the ancestor of modernistic chemistry. Alchemists were notorious for attempting to make synthetic gold, but their goals were far more ambitious: to transform and bend nature to the will of an industrious human imagination. For scientists, philosophers, and artists alike, abracadabra seemed to hold the cardinal to unlocking the secrets of creation. Alchemists' efforts to detect the manner the world is made have had an enduring affect on artistic do and expression around the globe. Inventions born from alchemical laboratories include metal alloys for sculpture and ornament, oil paints, furnishings in glassmaking, and fifty-fifty the chemical baths of photography. The mysterious art of alchemy transformed visual culture from antiquity to the Industrial Age, and its legacy still permeates the world we make today.

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The Alchemy of Color in Medieval Manuscripts, related exhibition

The Abracadabra of Colour in Medieval Manuscripts
Oct 11, 2016–January 1, 2017
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During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the industry of pigments and colored inks used for painting and writing manuscripts was part of the science of alchemy, a precursor of modernistic chemistry concerned with the transformation of matter. This exhibition examines colorants made from plants, minerals, and metals, too as medieval recipes for pigments and false golden in a presentation that highlights the Getty's ongoing enquiry into the materials used past volume illuminators.

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