The lectures address both historical and contemporary issues, so the event should appeal to a fairly broad audience despite its specialized nature. Since the early modern period, artistic and scientific developments or advances have taken place at an ever-increasing pace. In the process, these disciplines show many interconnections. Astronomical and physical findings, for example, were depicted in works of art, and new knowledge was made clear in textbooks through detailed drawings. Painters and sculptors, in turn, following the example of the universal scholar artist, not only dealt in individual cases with chemistry or anatomy, for example, were thus scientists themselves. Up to the present day, the paths of art and science have crossed regularly. At present, for example, environmental protection aspects, which are also discussed in this series, are a determining factor in both fields.
The fluid, today fundamental for theory and model formation across disciplines or, for example, present in NFTs in the art world this year, is the unifying element of the lectures as a contrast to the fixed. For those interested in art, special reference should be made to the lectures »Nothing flows? Artistic practice and art historiography off the perfettissima strada dell'oglio« by Anna Degler, »Fire and water worlds. Early Modern Concepts of Dissolutive Natural Forces as a Foil of an Aesthetics of the Fluid« by Anna Eusterschulte and »L'uno è stabile marmo, e sasso alpino, / l'altra è mobile umor, che corre al chino. Fluid Sculptures of the Early Modern Period« by Frank Fehrenbach.
Selected lectures can subsequently be accessed on the Youtube channel of the Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani.
