Joseph Wright of Derby (1734–1797), A Philosopher Giving that Lecture on the Orrery, in which a Lamp is Put in Place of the Sun (1766), oil on canvas, 147.3 x 203.2 cm, Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Derby, England. Wikimedia Commons.
This series explores topics in which scientific developments over the last millennium have benefitted art, and how art has repaid that. This table of contents for the series links to each article in turn, giving a list of artists featured, pigments discussed, or similar.
Masaccio (1401–1428), The Holy Trinity (1426-8), fresco, 640 x 317 cm, Basilica of Santa Maria Novella, Florence. Wikimedia Commons. Lines of projection marked in light green.
Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446)
Masaccio (1401–1428)
Leon Battista Alberti (1406-1472) Della pittura (On Painting), 1435
Piero della Francesca (c 1415-1492) De Prospectiva Pingendi (On Perspective for Painting)
Joseph Wright of Derby (1734–1797), An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (1768), oil on canvas, 182.9 x 243.9 cm, The National Gallery, London. By courtesy of the National Gallery, Presented by Edward Tyrrell, 1863.
Joseph Wright of Derby (1734–1797)
Philip James de Loutherbourg (1740-1812)
JMW Turner (1775–1851)
Rogier van der Weyden (1399/1400–1464), Adoration of the Magi (detail), from St Columba Altarpiece (detail) (c 1455), oil on oak panel, 138 x 153 cm, Alte Pinakothek, Maxvorstadt, Germany. Wikimedia Commons.
Franciscus Aguilonius (1567-1617)
Tobias Mayer (1723-1762)
Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728-1777)
Phillip Otto Runge (1777–1810)
Charles Blanc (1813-1882)
Michel-Eugène Chevreul (1786-1889)
Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (1821-1894)
Ewald Hering (1834-1918)
Wilhelm Ostwald (1853-1932)
Albert Henry Munsell (1858-1918)
Léon Augustin Lhermitte (1844–1925), Claude Bernard and His Pupils (1889), copy of original by unknown artist, oil on canvas, 86.5 x 112.5 cm, Wellcome Library no. 45530i, London. Courtesy of Wellcome Images, via Wikimedia Commons.
Léon Augustin Lhermitte (1844–1925)
Erik Henningsen (1855–1930)
Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (1863–1923)
Ricardo de Madrazo (1851–1917)
Adolph von Menzel (1815–1905), The Iron Rolling Mill (1875), oil on canvas, 158 x 254 cm, Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany. Wikimedia Commons.
William Armstrong (1822–1914)
John Ferguson Weir (1841-1926)
Adolph von Menzel (1815–1905)
Constantin Meunier (1831–1905)
Charles Frederic Ulrich (1858–1908)
Christian Ludwig Bokelmann (1844–1894)
Jean-Eugène Buland (1852–1926)
Alessandro Milesi (1856–1945)
Maximilien Luce (1858–1941)
Louis Muraton (1850–1919)
Hans Baluschek (1870–1935)
Robert Sterl (1867–1932)
Thomas Eakins (1844–1916), The Agnew Clinic (1889), oil on canvas, 214.2 x 300.1 cm, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA. Wikimedia Commons.
Thomas Eakins (1844–1916)
Henri Gervex (1852–1929)
André Brouillet (1857–1914)
Jean Geoffroy (1853-1924)
Luis Jiménez Aranda (1845-1928)
Robert C. Hinckley (1853–1941)
Enrique Simonet Lombardo (1866–1927)
Anna Sahlstén (1859–1931)
Henry Tonks (1862-1937)
Georges Seurat (1859–1891), Un dimanche après-midi à l’Île de la Grande Jatte (A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte) (1884-6), oil on canvas, 207.5 × 308.1 cm, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Wikimedia Commons.
Théo van Rysselberghe (1862-1926), l’Heure embrasée (Provence) (The Glowing Hour (Provence)) (1897), oil on canvas, 228 x 329 cm, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Weimar. WikiArt.
Camille Pissarro (1830–1903)
Paul Signac (1863-1935)
Maximilien Luce (1858–1941)
Théo van Rysselberghe (1862-1926)
Henri-Jean Guillaume Martin (1860–1943)
Kolbjørn Håseth (dates not known), Patterns of Movement (2007), acrylic, 89 x 116 cm, location not known. By courtesy of the artist http://www.khz.no, via Wikimedia Commons.
Leonard Bocour (1910-1993) and Sam Golden (1915-1997), acrylic paints
James Gillray (–1815), Doublures of Characters; — or — striking Resemblances in Phisiognomy (1798), engraving, dimensions not known, Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Wikimedia Commons.
Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792), The Infant Hercules Strangling Serpents in his Cradle (1788), oil on canvas, 307 × 297 cm, Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg. Wikimedia Commons.
Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792)
JMW Turner (1775–1851)
Edgar Degas (1834–1917)
Johannes Cornelisz Verspronck (c 1600/1603–1662), Regentesses of the St. Elisabeth’s Hospital (1641), oil on canvas, 156.9 x 214.7 cm, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands. Wikimedia Commons.
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Walter Russell and William de W Abney
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