Image Making as Knowledge Production: Earth, Heavens, and Body

Research Exhibition curated by MPRG Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions: Nina Caviezel, Alexandre Claude, Sietske Fransen, Giulia Simonini

Start: Jun 11, 2026
End: Jul 31, 2026
Speaker: Research Exhibition
Location: Bibliotheca Hertziana, Palazzo Zuccari, Sala del Disegno, Via Gregoriana 30, 00187 Roma
Contact: katja.hackstein@biblhertz.it

Image Making as Knowledge Production: Earth, Heavens, and Body

In this exhibition, we show that images were part of a process. A process of observation, of experimentation, and/or of discovery, of which we exhibit here the printed version. Making images, especially drawing (disegnare), was at the basis of many early modern sciences, as this room also shows (Sala del Disegno by Federico Zuccari.

We want to highlight that the moment of image making is part of the practice of knowledge production. It is thus not a mere representation of something that happened before, but rather a moment of unfolding nature through drawing.

The exhibition has a case on the teaching of drawing, and three cases in which examples are shown of images that capture process, organized around the heavens, earth, and the body.

Exhibition details
Via Gregoriana 30
00187 Rome
Mon–Fri 9.30am–6.30pm
No booking required

Scientific Organization: MPRG Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions: Nina Caviezel, Alexandre Claude, Sietske Fransen, Giulia Simonini

_{Image: frontispiece with student of perspective drawing, in Giulio Troili, named il Paradosso (1613–1685), Paradossi per praticare la prospettiva senza saperla (Bologna, 1683). ® BHMPI.}