The Image as Method

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

  • Inizio: 10.06.2026 18:00
  • Fine: 31.07.2026 18:00
  • Relatore: Research Exhibition
  • Luogo: Bibliotheca Hertziana, Palazzo Zuccari, Sala del Disegno, Via Gregoriana 30, 00187 Roma
  • Contatto: katja.hackstein@biblhertz.it
The Image as Method
Frontispiece with student of perspective drawing, in Giulio Troili, named il Paradosso (1613–1685), Paradossi per praticare la prospettiva senza saperla (Bologna, 1683). ® BHMPI.
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.

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