Art and Science in the Early Modern Low Countries

Amsterdam 17-18 septembre 2015 Programme PDF Information from the website of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam On 17 and 18 September 2015, Amsterdam is to host the conference ‘Art and Science in the Early Modern Low Countries (ca 1560-1730)’, organized by the Rijksmuseum and the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands. Prior to the eighteenth century, ‘art’ and ‘science’ were often considered complementary, rather than opposite, expressions of human culture. They enlightened one anothe..