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Tag: 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…

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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…

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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 Leave a comment

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

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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,…

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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…

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A Picture of a Picture of a Flower: On the Limitation of Working with Digitized Images

November 25, 2018 Jessie 6 Comments

Fig. 1. A folio from the Herbarium Danicum sempervivum (1656) at the Royal Danish Library. “The plant is quite large,…

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The Everlasting Flowers Between the Pages: An Introduction

October 24, 2018 Jessie 2 Comments

In praising the works of the botanical illustrator Ferdinand Bauer (1760–1826), the celebrated writer Goethe made the comment below: The…

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