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EN A ‘Faithful’ Reproduction: Photomechanical Processes and the Making of Modern Knowledge
- 26 November 2026 09:30
Language: English
How did knowledge, and in particular visual knowledge, circulate among scholars before the digital turn? Much of it travelled through the pages of publications, books and journals, in the shape of photomechanical images.
The workshop “A ‘Faithful’ Reproduction: Photomechanical Processes and the Making of Modern Knowledge”, which will take place at Museo Galileo on Thursday 26 November, from 9:30 to 12:30, will build on this question.
The initiative brings together international scholars and museum professionals to discuss how photomechanical processes actively participated in the shaping of modern knowledge thanks to the promise of a faithful – and apparently unmediated – reproduction which combined photographic verisimilitude and printing quality and duration over time.
The workshop will pose methodological challenges for the study of visual knowledge in printed materials, and it will be an opportunity to engage with materials from the Commissione Vinciana archive housed at Museo Galileo.
Limited seats. Registration required:
In person & online (access link provided upon confirmation)