“I have seen that Endymion. Hyperion, and The Fall of Hyperion, besides adhering to the individuation myth, can also be discussed in the context of the process of alchemy. Within these poems there are a number of significant alchemical parallels, which help us to understand their unity, which becomes manifest when it is seen that they progress according to the stages of the opus alchemicum. Alchemy is an untapped reservoir of truth about the human soul, containing seventeen centuries of study and speculation.”

The Alchemy of Art: A Study in the Evolution of the Creative Mind of John Keats
G. Brian Sullivan
University of Nebraska-Lincoln



https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewc...nglishdiss

The Divine Ark: Jane Lead’s Vision of the Second Noah’s Ark

Julie Hirst

"This article will examine how the seventeenth-century visionary, Jane Lead, imagined and represented purification, redemption and salvation in her visions of Noah’s Ark using alchemical imagery as a way of describing the processes leading to the illumination of the soul."

https://esoteric.msu.edu/VolumeVI/divineark.htm

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

1) Self-portrait of the artist in his studio

1) An Alchemist

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

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“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