05-20-2026, 10:28 AM
L'Osservatore Romano review
Alchemy and visions DCMEN-005
16 May 2026
In the history of science, female alchemists have long remained at the margins of the official narrative, yet they were deeply rooted in the processes of transformation of knowledge. Amidst hidden laboratories and symbolic writings, from natural philosophy to spiritual inquiry, these women inhabited a hybrid space where matter and thought, body and knowledge were not separated. More than mere practitioners of an arcane art, they were interpreters of a knowledge in becoming, who were capable of imagining transformation not only as the transmutation of metals, but as a process involving both the world and the human being. It is from this constellation of presences that one can enter the exhibition Le Alchimiste [The Alchimists] by Anselm Kiefer.
https://www.osservatoreromano.va/en/news...sions.html
Alchemy and visions DCMEN-005
16 May 2026
In the history of science, female alchemists have long remained at the margins of the official narrative, yet they were deeply rooted in the processes of transformation of knowledge. Amidst hidden laboratories and symbolic writings, from natural philosophy to spiritual inquiry, these women inhabited a hybrid space where matter and thought, body and knowledge were not separated. More than mere practitioners of an arcane art, they were interpreters of a knowledge in becoming, who were capable of imagining transformation not only as the transmutation of metals, but as a process involving both the world and the human being. It is from this constellation of presences that one can enter the exhibition Le Alchimiste [The Alchimists] by Anselm Kiefer.
https://www.osservatoreromano.va/en/news...sions.html