A HISTORY OF ALCHEMY - A Lecture Presentation by Laurence Caruana

This Seven-part Series of Lectures on ALCHEMY, VISIONS & ART begins with four presentations on ALCHEMY, followed by one presentation on alchemical themes in VISIONARY ART, and finally a two-part presentation on the Alchemy of Traditional ARTISTS' MATERIALS:

ALCHEMY:
1. An Introduction to Alchemy (   • AN INTRODUCTION TO ALCHEMY - A Lecture by ...  )
2. The Sources of Alchemy (   • THE SOURCES OF ALCHEMY - A Lecture Present...  )
3. A History of Alchemy (   • A HISTORY OF ALCHEMY - A Lecture Presentat...  )
4. The Alchemy of Colour (   • THE ALCHEMY OF COLOUR - A Lecture Presenta...  )

VISIONARY ART:
5. Alchemy & Visionary Art (   • ALCHEMY AND VISIONARY ART - A Lecture Pres...  )

ARTISTS' MATERIALS:
6. The Alchemy of Painting Mediums & Pigments (   • THE ALCHEMY OF PAINTING MEDIUMS AND PIGMEN...  )

BONUS LECTURE:
7. The Gnostic Worldview (   • THE GNOSTIC WORLDVIEW - A Lecture by LAURE...  )

Filmed at THE VIENNA ACADEMY OF VISIONARY ART during Laurence Caruana’s 2019 Winter Trimester on 'The Alchemy of Paint', the lectures give an increasingly in-depth understanding of Alchemy, including alchemical themes in Visionary Art and the alchemical nature of artists’ traditional Mediums and Pigments. A bonus lecture on The Gnostic Worldview completes the series.

More information on L. Caruana's books:
https://www.amazon.com/L.-Caruana/e/B...

More information on The Vienna Academy of Visionary Art:
http://academyofvisionaryart.com

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3. A HISTORY OF ALCHEMY - An Outline:
Using the structure of a timeline, but also offering many exemplary images and texts, the following periods of alchemy are presented:
1:47 - Near-Eastern Metallurgy - 5,000 - 500 BCE
9:27 - Classical Greek Natural Philosophy - 600 - 300 BCE
14:40 - Greco-Egyptian Chemeia - 300 bce - 300 CE
38:50 - Byzantine Chemeia - 300 - 900 CE
41:55 - Arabic Al-kimiya - 650 - 1050 CE
51:28 - Medieval Latin Alchemia - 1150 - 1400 CE
1:06:01 - Early Renaissance Alchemy - 1400s
1:10:10 - High Renaissance Alchemy - 1500s
1:23:47 - Late Renaissance Alchemy - 1600s
1:37:33 - Enlightenment - Decline of Alchemy - 1700 - 1800s
1:40:12 - Rise of Psychological & Scholarly chymistry - 1900s