“In the two most famous published collections of alchemical works, Jean Jacques Manget’s Bibliotheca Chemica Curiosa (1702) and Lazarus Zetzner’s Theatrum Chemicum (1659-61), Ficino, translator of the Corpus Hermeticum, is assimilated into the ranks of the Hermetic philosophers, appearing at the head of a list of Italian alchemists and as the author of both a Liber de Arte Chemica and de Aurei Velleris mysterio.”

https://www.academia.edu/1808343/Marsili...emical_Art

Translation of De arte chemica attributed to Marsilio Ficino.

https://archive.org/details/MarsilioFici...hemicalArt

Internet Archive annual conference

https://www.youtube.com/live/USKMXT6t42w?feature=shared

Two paintings on the same theme: a lady visiting an alchemist in his laboratory.

Jan Josef Horemans the Elder (1682–1759) was a Flemish painter of the 18th-century. He was mainly known for his genre scenes but he also painted portraits and historical allegories.

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Johannes Paulus Moreelse, or Johan Pauwelszon Moreelse (c. 1603 – October 1634), was a Dutch baroque painter belonging to the school of Utrecht Caravaggism during the Dutch Golden Age. 

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

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From Egyptian wall paintings to the Venetian Renaissance, impressionism to digital images, Philip Ball tells the fascinating story of how art, chemistry, and technology have interacted throughout the ages to render the gorgeous hues we admire on our walls and in our museums.

Finalist for the 2002 National Book Critics Circle Award.


https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/boo...16821.html

Chapter Four focusses on alchemy:

https://tinyurl.com/3ux95yrc

Maerten de Vos

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

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In Athanor X.


https://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/o...u%3A747794

   
"L'art de faire de l'or : la transmutation du fer, du cuivre et de l'argent en or" by Théodore Tiffereau

Between 1854 and 1855, Tiffereau presented six memoirs to the French Academy of Sciences concerning the transmutation of silver into gold. In particular, he claimed that silver from Mexico possessed specific chemical properties allowing this transmutation.

https://archive.org/details/BSG_BR50424

"The authors consider a number of medieval discoveries from the heyday of alchemy: Greek fire, gunpowder sulfurous water, distillation, acids, bases, lead acetate, transmutations, slug gold, Tiffereau's gold, and "Spanish gold."


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https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ed053p235