Conférence : Omar W. Nasim, Nicholas Robbins, « From Storms to Stars: Materiality and Visualizations of the Sky », Rome/en ligne, Bibliotheca Hertziana, 11 mars 2025
How do we capture the ever-changing nature of the sky? This research seminar examines the different strategies artists and scientists have used to visualize the terrestrial and celestial sky. The two speakers, a historian of science and a historian of art, focus on the material aspect of representation – how hands, ink, cameras, telescopes, and paint constructed the visualization, registration, and preservation of the sky. The physical presence of various scientific and artistic instruments and...