"The interiors inhabited by the alchemists in the work of the Dutch artist Thomas Wijck (1616–1677) are fascinating and complex. Scattered with the tools and props of the alchemist’s trade, Wijck’s laboratories are messy spaces that privilege making and experimentation alongside creative enterprise and innovation. The alchemists who command these workrooms are not foolhardy or morally corrupt, but serious-minded, respectable individuals whose work was embedded in local and global exchanges of knowledge. Wijck’s paintings remind us of the parallels between the alchemist’s pursuit and the painter’s craft – how the grinding of pigments and mixing of solvents gave way to rich imagery of the visible world. The intersection of art and alchemy is reflected in the career of Wijck himself, an understudied artist who carefully built an artistic and professional identity around the depiction of alchemists in the early modern Netherlands."

Reviewed here:

https://hnanews.org/hnar/reviews/painted...mas-wijck/

See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Wijck

https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/84301


   

"In this talk, Tim Chesters will share one of the newly-discovered secrets of the Fellows' Library, and through it tell the story of one of Clare [College, Cambridge’s] most colourful Fellows. Piecing together some extraordinarily densely annotated books from the collection, the history of chemical experimentation, Tudor medicine, letters from the College archive, the College silver, a memorial sculpture, and an East London pub, the talk will show how Clare may hold the key to one of the most intriguing mysteries in the history of English alchemy."


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M64mSwXB6fE

Lots of links to Adam's site, but lots of original content also:


http://azothgallery.com/index.htm

http://azothgallery.com/dialectics.html

Dave Holt.

"I’m going back in time to the early 16th century, to look at the ideas and practices of one of the greatest polymaths, alchemists, magicians, physicians and Rosicrucian’s of the past. An inspiration for the German Renaissance and someone who embodied the Italian Renaissance and great thinkers like, Marsilio Ficino and Pico della Mirandola, Paracelsus. I will also compare these ideas to the eastern streams which I believe they flowed from. There is a lot we can learn from the past that is relevant today."


https://masonicenlightenment.com/the-pra...eemasonry/

"Catherine MacCoun’s book On Becoming an Alchemist offers practical guidance to anyone wanting to learn and apply alchemical principles. She enlightens and surprises us by sharing how alchemy isn’t something left to the past but is, instead, a treasure-trove of knowledge that can help in our daily struggles. Her book brings Jung’s alchemical work into the everyday world. Readable, engaging, and enlightening, MacCoun’s text reveals how alchemical operations can be used to transform such “inferior states” as desire into devotion, vulnerability into compassion, and territoriality into integrity. The downside of her book is a lack of differentiation between magic and alchemy, with the two words used at times interchangeably."

Reviewed here:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...ode=ujun20

https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Alchemis...1590306872

By Gabriel Müller.

Full text.


https://www.mdpi.com/2409-9252/3/3/17


Who was Daniel Sennert?

https://geniuses.club/genius/daniel-sennert

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/alchemy...index.html

Lots of information on Daoist alchemical texts:


https://sejinlifeforce.blogspot.com/2023...ts-in.html

Not specifically alchemical, but a very interesting website devoted to

THE EXTRAORDINARY LOCAL HISTORIES OF CHESHIRE, DERBYSHIRE AND STAFFORDSHIRE:

https://thelocalmythstorian.com/read

Old (2010) seminar:

https://heterodoxology.com/2010/06/27/al...-workshop/