A lecture by Marcella Stockstill
Considered the handmaid of God by alchemists, Jesuits, and firemasters alike, pyrotechnia held sway in metallurgist workshops where new powders and cannon were forged, as well as in the dark skies above cities on feast days, where showers of artificial meteors, suns, and stars rained down on the populace ‘with a brightness that return’d the Day.’ This lecture considers the aesthetic, religious, alchemical, and political enthusiasms of Renaissance pyrotechnia.
Marcella Stockstill is Associate Professor and Chair of Art History at the Laguna College of Art and Design, California.
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The lecture is sponsored by Allen Loney