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Sietske Fransen
@sietskefransen.bsky.social
Historian of early modern science and art |
max planck research group leader at the Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History
#VisualizingScienceInMediaRevolutions |
Co-Investigator of www.visualizingtheunknown.com
Super dress match met Trude Dijkstra vanavond bij #avondwm, de Avond van wetenschap & maatschappij waar we als tafelwetenschappers een stelling mochten inbrengen en bespreken met fantastische tafelgenoten. #boekwetenschap & #wetenschapsgeschiedenis
October 16, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Venice this week! For the opening of the exhibition “Diagrams, a project by AMO/OMA” at the Fondazione Prada, Ca’Corner. It has been fantastic to play a small role in this project and it is even better to now see the whole show in reality, and amazing to speak to all the people involved
May 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This is a project I have been working on for several month and I am very excited that the exhibition “Diagrams. A Project by AMO/OMA” will open soon —> 10 May at Ca’ Corner, Fondazione Prada, Venice
April 29, 2025 at 1:34 PM
This week I have the honour of taking care of the Bluesky account @historicivertellen.bsky.social, where I well show you a bit more about my work (week). All in Dutch!
Goedemorgen allemaal! Mijn naam is Sietske Fransen en ik rapporteer vanuit Rome deze week. Ik werk aan de Bibliotheca Hertziana (@bhmpi.bsky.social), een Duits Max Planck Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis, waar ik sinds september 2019 een onderzoeksgroep leid: www.biblhertz.it/en/research-...
Visualizing Science in Media RevolutionsSietske Fransen, Ph.D.
www.biblhertz.it
April 28, 2025 at 8:55 AM
The amazing #drawing course “Drawing Rome” will run again, taught by artist and architect David Dernie. It’s an amazing way to learn to see, observe and draw (and to explore #Rome) for beginners as well as experienced people.
April 8, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Reposted by Sietske Fransen
📐📏 French mathematic Jean Du Breuil (1602–1670) explains how scale impacts our perception. The Max Planck Research Group Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions, led by @sietskefransen.bsky.social, examines how science is depicted in our rare book collection: rarebooks.biblhertz.it/visuali.../v...
March 21, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Today! Exciting seminar about #materiality and #visualizations of the #sky with Omar Nasim and Nicholas Robbins. Taking place 14:00-16:00 @bhmpi.bsky.social and also online. Please join us! www.biblhertz.it/events/41036... 🗃️🔭🧪🎨
From Storms to Stars: Materiality and Visualizations of the Sky
How do we capture the ever-changing nature of the sky? This research seminar examines the different strategies artists and scientists have used to visualize the terrestrial and celestial sky.
www.biblhertz.it
March 11, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Joachim Sandrart presents two legends about the invention of drawing. More in the online exhibition of our rare books curated by the Max Planck Research Group “Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions” @sietskefransen.bsky.social @ariellaminden.bsky.social
🔗: rarebooks.biblhertz.it/visualizing_...
March 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Reposted by Sietske Fransen
Wonderful opportunity to undertake a 4-year fully funded PhD at UoAmsterdam for a project on Food Protest in Early Modern Northern Italy working with the fantastic @maartjevg.bsky.social werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Vacancy — PhD position: Food Protest in Early Modern Northern Italy
The Amsterdam School for Historical Studies (ASH) invites applications for a fully funded PhD position (4 years; 1ft). You will work on the Italian subproject of the project Daily Bread. A Comparative...
werkenbij.uva.nl
March 4, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Reposted by Sietske Fransen
*Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht.

www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

#skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens
Postdoctoral Researcher: Colonial History of Botanic Gardens
Interested in colonial history, botanical gardens and decolonisation? Join our international team of scholars!
www.uu.nl
March 4, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Less than a week to apply for predoc and postdoc fellowships in my group. Come and join us! Deadline March 3rd. @bhmpi.bsky.social www.biblhertz.it/de/opportuni...
Postdoctoral (M/F/D) / Predoctoral Fellows (M/F/D)Max Planck Research Group “Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions”
www.biblhertz.it
February 25, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Here is a link to an online exhibit my team curated out of the amazing rare books collection of the @bhmpi.bsky.social. All books are also fully digitized and freely available to study! 🗃️ #earlymodern #science #art
🔬How did artists and scientific practitioners visualize their work in the early modern period? That’s the main question behind the online exhibition of rare books curated by @sietskefransen.bsky.social, @ariellaminden.bsky.social and Leendert van der Miesen.
🔗https://rarebooks.biblhertz.it
February 17, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Final call for fellows in my group, please apply if you want to be part of the team!
📢 2 new fellowship calls out now!
The department of @tristanweddigen.bsky.social is offering Predoc & Postdoc Fellowships for 25/26. The Max Planck Research Group led by @sietskefransen.bsky.social is seeking 1 Postdoc Fellow & 2 Predoc Fellows.

🔗https://www.biblhertz.it/en/opportunities
January 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Happy #paper day with the research group, visiting the Museo della carta e della filigrana in #Fabriano. Learning about the history of paper (making) and doing it ourselves! @bhmpi.bsky.social #visualizingscience
January 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
To whom it may concern:
There's still time to register your interest to become the Royal Society's Artist in Residence, an opportunity for a creative individual to produce new work in response to our collections and the scientific research of our community. Express your interest here: royalsociety.org/about-us/wor...
December 13, 2024 at 4:39 PM
This is such an amazing course! I did it in the summer and loved it! Learned so much about drawing, Rome, and looking and observing. I’d recommend it to everyone!
www.drawingrome.com
Attention #histsci #histart #drawing Learn to see Rome by drawing Rome. No prior skill necessary. Limited places remaining for 5 - 8 February 2025. #britishschoolatrome @sietskefransen.bsky.social
Drawing Rome
www.drawingrome.com
December 11, 2024 at 8:46 PM
Reposted by Sietske Fransen
The Whipple Museum are recruiting for a Collections Assistant - offered for 5 years, fixed term due to funding.

Wonderful collections and a brilliant team, this is a really excellent role for someone!

#museumjobs 📜 #histsci

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49320/
Collections Assistant (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Collections Assistant (Fixed Term) in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk
November 29, 2024 at 8:47 AM
My home institution is now also here, please follow! Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History @bhmpi.bsky.social #art #earlymodern 🗃️ and so much more!
November 20, 2024 at 11:57 AM
Reposted by Sietske Fransen
spread the word / vertel het rond:

Looking for 2 enthusiastic book- and/or art historians to come join the team of the NWO OC Research Project "Images on the Move. Early Modern Friendship Albums as Pictorial Networks (1550-1700)

www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...
2 PhD - NWO OC-L project IMAGES ON THE MOVE
Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) invites applications for 2 PhD positions within the NWO OC-L project IMAGES ON THE MOVE. Friendship Albums as Pictorial Networks in Early Moder...
www.universiteitleiden.nl
November 15, 2024 at 7:43 AM
We had had a great #VisionLab with the VisualizingtheUnknown team @ubleiden.bsky.social today! They even had a drawing by Anthony van Leeuwenhoek himself 🔬!
October 30, 2024 at 5:43 PM
Perfect research day @ubleiden.bsky.social !!
Originele Huygens manuscripten (1662) bekijken met @sietskefransen.bsky.social #earlymodernhist
October 30, 2024 at 10:59 AM
Heel leuk initiatief!
Hou je van geschiedenis? Hier lees je binnenkort verhalen van historici over hun onderzoek.

Daarvoor hebben we eerst wat volgers nodig. Wil je ons helpen?

➡️ Volg ons om op de hoogte te blijven!
🔁 Repost = fijn!
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October 29, 2024 at 5:06 PM
5 days left to apply…👇
September 26, 2024 at 7:40 AM