What If...?

Dialogues Between Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek and Johannes Vermeer
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-485-7148-2
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 74 Seiten, Format (B × H): 205 mm x 293 mm, Gewicht: 506 g

Antoni van Leeuwenhoek and Johannes Vermeer were roughly the same age, they were extremely curious and they grew up in the bustling city of Delft in the seventeenth century. Nowadays, they are world famous. Both explored and created new worlds.

Van Leeuwenhoek discovered the miraculous micro-life with his self-built microscopes, Vermeer toyed with light and painted masterpieces such as Girl with a Pearl Earring and View of Delft. What if… they knew each other? What if they were best friends who discussed private and work-related issues that affected them in crucial moments in their lives? Masters in art and science, but at the same time people of flesh and blood, forever bound by light.

In What if…? Dialogues between Antoni van Leeuwenhoek and Johannes Vermeer by author Dirk van Delft and visual artist Elisa Pesapane, their conversations are recorded in both words and images.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Delft, Dirk

Pesapane, Elisa

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction i. The Classroom Thursday, February 7th, 1641 ii. Amsterdam Municipal Hall Tuesday, October 22nd, 1652 iii. After the Delft Thunderclap Monday, October 19th, 1654 iv. On the ice Saturday, March 6th, 1660 v. The Astronomer Thursday, June 14th, 1668 v. Anatomy lesson Wednesday, February 25th, 1671 vii. Annus Horribilis Friday, July 8th, 1672 viii. Huygens’ Hofwijck Thursday, August 3rd, 1673 ix. Encounters with minute animalcules Tuesday, August 14th, 1674 x. The Deathbed Saturday, December 14th, 1675, Epilogue. Approach Leiden / Haarlem, August 2023, On the road to What if…? Haarlem, December 2023, Sources.

Über Autor(innen)

Prof. Dr. Dirk van Delft (1951), guest researcher at Instituut-Lorentz for theoretical physics of Leiden University, former director of Rijksmuseum Boerhaave (history of science and medicine). Recent publications: biographies of meteorologist Buys Ballot, particle physicist Martinus Veltman and microscopist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek. Elisa Pesapane (1979), artist, curator and writer. Creates multidisciplinary art projects and publications, solo and with colleagues from other fields. Recent publications: Liefde na Auschwitz (Love after Auschwitz) with Arnon Grunberg (Uitgeverij Zoetzuur), Slow Reading and the Shock of Recognition, with Carlo Ginzburg, Piero Boitani, Andrea A. Robiglio et al. Abacus series, UCO Press (Córdoba University Press).