Nov 18, 2016 · It includes the 20-foot-long Ripley Scroll, an 18 th century artwork that shows two alchemists sharing secrets from a locked book. Atlas Obscura has a selection of images from …

Long shrouded in secrecy, alchemy is now recognized as the ancestor of modern chemistry. Alchemists were notorious for attempting to make synthetic gold, but their goals were far more …

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Aug 2, 2016 · The varied tradition of alchemy has given birth to a whole host of strange and wondrous imagery over the centuries. Here we pick out some favourites.

Oct 14, 2016 · “The Art of Alchemy,” which opened this week at the Research Institute galleries at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, is broken up into three sections, each covering a different …

Alchemical literature is both text and image based. Many manuscripts and printed books are profusely illustrated with coloured drawings, woodcuts and engravings. Imagery is thus a very …

Alchemy has had a long-standing relationship with art, seen both in alchemical texts and in mainstream entertainment. Literary alchemy appears throughout the history of English …

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Many of the artworks in this gallery were painted during the 1600s and 1700s, when alchemy was enjoying a golden age. But this picture was painted a century later, and models a very different …

Oct 11, 2016 · What is alchemy? Long shrouded in secrecy, alchemy is now recognized as the ancestor of modern chemistry. Alchemists were notorious for attempting to make synthetic …