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Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen

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

November 1, 2019 Jessie

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

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Filed under: PhD Project

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

September 23, 2019 Jessie

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

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Filed under: PhD Project

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

September 11, 2019 Jessie

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

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Filed under: PhD Project, Summer Program

Why Would One be Enticed by the Process of Making?

July 7, 2019 Jessie

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

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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…

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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…

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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

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

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Filed under: PhD Project

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

February 26, 2019 Jessie

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

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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…

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Filed under: Workshop

Every Minute Counts: Building Visual and Tactile Expertise

December 19, 2018 Jessie

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

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Filed under: PhD Project

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