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Jean-Pierre-Laurent Hoüel does not seem to belong to the realm of art history. His work features as an addition to the galleries of views executed in Italy in the last decades of the eighteenth century by various “small masters”. Yet his depictions of Sicilian and Aeolian landscapes and historical monuments in large part shaped the image of the land modern Europeans (like Goethe) formed, as they got...
This article presents selected aspects of the cult of Isaac Newton in France during the Age of the Enlightenment that appear both in Voltaire’s philosophical writings as well as in contemporary visual culture. These reflections feed into art historical interest in the affinity of “two cultures” (C.P. Snow), that is science and humanities, at the same raising questions on methods of research in the...
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