Paradise Postponed

Hotson, Howard

doi:10.1007/978-94-015-9494-3

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“…92 To this end, sense-realism was translated into concrete curricula at schools all over Northern Europe, as a few examples must suffice to show: in the first decennia of the seventeenth century, Alsted -head of the Herborn Academy and teacher of Comenius and Hartlib -imagined a school with a garden, in which boys and girls would be taught in nature about nature. 93 In mid-century in England, Gresham College and the Royal Society developed practice-based curricula in the heart of London to raise a poly-technically educated elite. 94 Here, painting was part of the ideal curriculum, and William Petty's Advice to Samuel Hartlib for the advancement of some particular parts of learning (1648), singles out 'Limning and Painting on Glasse or in Oyl Colours' .…”

Section: Sense-realismmentioning

confidence: 99%

An alphabet of colors

Lehmann¹

2019

Neth. Yearb. Hist. Art

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A close reading of the first handbook for teachers written in the Dutch Republic by Dirck Adriaensz Valcooch and the color recipes it contained, offers some answers to broader questions concerning the role of art making in general education: was the broad literacy movement in the Protestant Republic beneficial to creative practices? Did the ubiquitous presence of art works support the emergence of practice-based learning? And were pedagogical and artistic expertise related when it came to teaching art? In order to move the teacher’s manual closer to the domain of art history, this article first addresses the difficulties that instructive descriptions of color-related processes posed for Karel van Mander and others, and then briefly looks at how general education welcomed or discouraged creative practices before and around 1600. The analysis of Valcooch’s chapter on ink and paint against the background of wider pedagogical developments, argues that educational writings can significantly add to our understanding about how the artistic use of colors was conveyed in teaching.

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Section: Sense-realismmentioning

confidence: 99%