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‘Sketch, model, machine: invention and authorship across the early modern arts’

Thursday, 14 November 2019

What do literary compositional practices have in common with the processes of technical invention and the plastic arts? How is ‘invention’ translated between page (text, diagram) and material reality (models and machines), and vice versa? When such processes prove problematic, where does authority, or authorship, lie? As in previous sessions, the workshop will consist of brief presentations and open interdisciplinary discussion, bringing together scholars from a range of early modern fields to exchange perspectives on primary/archival material and investigate shared methodological challenges.

Vittoria Fallanca (Pembroke College), ‘Wayward Lines: Disegno between techne and ars‘
Olivia Smith (Wolfson College), ‘Models of Leonardo da Vinci’s machines: an exhibition in Venice’
Ion Mihailescu (EPFL-Lausanne), ‘Within one’s grasp: Robert Hooke building Christopher Wren’s weather-clock’


OpenEdition suggests that you cite this post as follows:
Marie Thebaud-Sorger (November 10, 2020). ‘Sketch, model, machine: invention and authorship across the early modern arts’. Writing Technologies . Retrieved June 18, 2025 from https://doi.org/10.58079/vbfe


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