What Painting Is: How to Think about Oil Painting ... - Victoria Vesna
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202 NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION<br />
caught by casting a net <strong>to</strong> the right, and the disciples lean that way<br />
<strong>to</strong> haul in the net.<br />
17. In addition a large portion of the paint surface has been lost and<br />
res<strong>to</strong>red—perhaps up <strong>to</strong> one-quarter of it. The area of this detail is<br />
unaffected. I thank Sarah Fisher of the National Gallery,<br />
Washing<strong>to</strong>n, for this information.<br />
18. Raffaele Soprani, Le vite de’Pit<strong>to</strong>ri, Scul<strong>to</strong>ri, ed Architetti Genovesi,<br />
2nd ed., edited by Carlo Giuseppe Ratti (Genoa: Nella Stamperia<br />
Casamara, 1769), quoted in Valentina Magnoni, Alessandro<br />
Magnasco (Rome: Edizioni Mediterranee, 1965), II. For similar<br />
examples see Philip Sohn, Pit<strong>to</strong>resco: Marco Boschini, His Critics, and<br />
Their Critique of Painterly Brushwork in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-<br />
Century Italy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991).<br />
19. A lovely example of the application of this idea is Karli Frigge,<br />
Alchemy and Marbling (Joppe, The Netherlands: Karli Frigge, 1996),<br />
large 410, which explores marbleized endpapers as an alchemical<br />
metaphor.<br />
20. lamblichus, Theology of Arithmetic, op. cit., 44–45.<br />
21. See Marius: On the Elements, edited by R.C.Dales (Berkeley:<br />
University of California Press, 1976), 15, n. 16, which lists the first<br />
two Latin sources as the Liber Apollonii (c. 1143) and Avicenna’s De<br />
mineralibus—for which see Avicenne De congelatione et conglutione<br />
lapidum [late 12th c.], translated by Alfred Sarashel, edited by Eric<br />
John Holmyard and Desmond Chris<strong>to</strong>pher Mandeville (Paris:<br />
P.Guethner, 1927).<br />
22. Arthur J.Hopkins, Alchemy: Child of Greek Philosophy (New York:<br />
Columbia University Press, 1934); R.Hookyaas, “Chemical<br />
Tricho<strong>to</strong>my before Paracelsus,” Archive Internationale d’His<strong>to</strong>ire des<br />
Sciences 28 (1949):1063–74; and Hookyaas, “Die Elementenlehre<br />
des Paracelsus,” Janus 39 (1935):75–88.<br />
23. John Read, Prelude <strong>to</strong> Chemistry, An Outline of Alchemy, its Literature<br />
and Relationships (New York: MacMillan, 1937), reprinted<br />
(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1957), 19.<br />
24. Andreas Libavius, D.O.M.A. Alchemia…opera e dispersis passim<br />
optimorum au<strong>to</strong>rum (Frankfurt: lohannes Saurius, 1597), translated<br />
in<strong>to</strong> German as Die Alchimie des Andreas Libavius (Weinheim:<br />
Verlag Chimie, 1964), Erster Trakt, Kap.L [XLIX], p. 316.<br />
25. A.K.Ramanujan, Speaking of Siva (Harmondsworth: Penguin,<br />
1973), 48–49. I thank Steven Feite for this information.<br />
26. There is a longstanding connection between alchemy and<br />
gnosticism, which turns on this dualism. See for example Jean-<br />
Jacques Gilbert, Propos sur la chrysopée (Paris: Dervy Livres, 1995),<br />
209–69; H.J.Sheppard, “Origin of the Gnostic-Alchemical<br />
Relationship,” Scientia 97 (1962):146–69; and Sheppard,