Skip to content

Jessie Wei-Hsuan CHEN

Historian of Art, Science, and the Book
  • About
  • Research Projects
    • Everlasting Flowers Between the Pages
    • The Blocks, the Tools, and the Printed Plants
  • Research Output
    • Presentations
    • Publications
  • CV
  • Creative Works
    • Hortus floridus Iesse
    • The Paper Garden
    • Teatime Stories
    • Het Alfabet
  • Planting Pigments
  • Blog

Embracing Mistakes, Errors, and Failures in Remaking a White Ink Recipe

November 1, 2019 Jessie Leave a comment

When I was in art school for my illustration program, my faculty mentor, who remains a positive influence, once told…

Continue Reading →

Filed under: PhD Project

Books of Painted Flowers on Paper and Parchment: Rethinking the Florilegium as a Book Genre?

September 23, 2019 Jessie Leave a comment

*This blog post is originally written and translated for and first published on the blog of the Société bibliographique de…

Continue Reading →

Filed under: PhD Project

Plants, Books, and People in a Space: The Modern Humanist Experience

September 11, 2019 Jessie Leave a comment

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” —Marcus Tullius Cicero   Plant Humanities Summer…

Continue Reading →

Filed under: PhD Project, Summer Program

Why Would One be Enticed by the Process of Making?

July 7, 2019 Jessie Leave a comment

June was a really intense and stimulating month for me, as I gave four presentations of different (albeit related) topics…

Continue Reading →

Filed under: PhD Project

Learning from Conservation Expertise for an Object-Oriented Historical Research

May 22, 2019 Jessie 3 Comments

Between the 8th and 10th of this month, I attended the international conference “The Making of Art Expertise: Changing Practices…

Continue Reading →

Filed under: Conference, PhD Project

Living Flowers as Inspirations

April 28, 2019 Jessie 2 Comments

Maybe it was because of the beautiful but distracting sunny days, or maybe because it was really time for a…

Continue Reading →

Filed under: PhD Project, Sanity Project

Interpreting the Ragged Edges: The Danger of Being a Modern Image-Maker in Historical Research

April 4, 2019 Jessie Leave a comment

*This blog post is originally written for and first published on the website of the ARTECHNE project on 3 April…

Continue Reading →

Filed under: PhD Project

Issues of Dating Two Watercolors from the Libri Picturati A 16–30

February 26, 2019 Jessie Leave a comment

At the end of January, I spent a few days in Kraków, Poland, for my research. At the Jagiellonian Library,…

Continue Reading →

Filed under: PhD Project

Learning from a “Living Source” in Working with Historical Recipes: Reflections on the Burgundian Blacks Collaboratory

January 31, 2019 Jessie 2 Comments

*This blog post is cross-posted on the websites of the ARTECHNE project on 3 July 2019 and The Recipes Project…

Continue Reading →

Filed under: Workshop

Every Minute Counts: Building Visual and Tactile Expertise

December 19, 2018 Jessie Leave a comment

In my last blog post, I discussed the reasons for me to look at the original artworks when quality digitized…

Continue Reading →

Filed under: PhD Project

Post navigation

Page 2 of 3
← Previous 1 2 3 Next →

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Update

  • Transplanted: An Online Art Exhibit
  • Planting Pigments
  • Making Colors (8): Fun and Curiosity in Historical Remaking

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Follow me on Twitter

My Tweets

Contact

  • Email
    w.h.chen@uu.nl
Copyright © 2023 Jessie Wei-Hsuan CHEN