Richard Taws is Reader in the History of Art Department at University College London, UK. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Getty, the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and the Bard Graduate Center, New York, and was recently awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize. He is the author of The Politics of the Provisional: Art and Ephemera in Revolutionary France (2013) and is currently writing a book about art and technology in post-revolutionary France.Genevieve Warwick is Editor of Art History and author of The Arts of Collecting (2000 and 2012), Bernini: Art as Theatre (2012), and Picturing Venus in the Renaissance Print (2014), as well as collections of essays on Poussin, prints and drawings and Caravaggio, and numerous articles on art collections, art and science, and architecture and urbanism. Her research has received awards from the Kress Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust, the Getty Foundation, the Arts and Humanities Research Council UK, and the Renaissance Society of America.

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• 6 Notes on Contributors8 Chapter 1 After Prometheus: Art and Technology in Early Modern EuropeGenevieve Warwick and Richard Taws20 Chapter 2 Historians in the Laboratory: Reconstruction of Renaissance Art and Technology in the Making and Knowing ProjectPamela H. Smith and The Making and Knowing Project44 Chapter 3 Works in Progress: Painting and Modelling in Seventeenth-Century HollandJan Blanc64 Chapter 4 Looking in the Mirror of Renaissance ArtGenevieve Warwick92 Chapter 5 Squaring the Circle: The Telescopic View in Early Modern LandscapesAmy Knight Powell112 Chapter 6 After Galileo: The Image of Science in Niccolò Tornioli’s AstronomersGiulia Martina Weston128 Chapter 7 The Monument to Louis XIV at the Place Vendôme (1699) as a Technical Achievement: A Question of InterestEtienne Jollet150 Chapter 8 A Clock Picture as a Philosophical Experiment: The Tableau Mécanique in the Physics Cabinet of Bonnier de la MossonHanneke Grootenboer166 Chapter 9 Of Air Pumps and Teapots: Joseph Wright of Derby, John Singleton Copley and the Technology of SeeingBryan J. Wolf186 Chapter 10 Technologies of Illusion: De Loutherbourg’s Eidophusikon in Eighteenth-Century LondonAnn Bermingham210 Chapter 11 Telegraphic Images in Post-Revolutionary FranceRichard Taws232 Chapter 12 Seizing Attention: Devices and DesiresBarbara Maria Stafford239 Index