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Figure 5. (a) David Teniers: “The Alchemist”, oil on wood, 27,5 x 38,5 cm, ca. 1656-60
(Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien). (b) “Jesus and the doctors of the Faith” by the entou-
rage of Giuseppe Ribera (1591-1652), ca. 1630 (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien). (c)
David Teniers: “The Alchemist”, oil on wood, 47 x 36 cm, ca. 1670 (Madrid, Museo del
Prado). (d) Pieter Brueghel the Elder (ca. 1525-69): “The Alchemist” (detail); engraving
by Philipp Galle, 1558 (Germanisches Nationalmuseum). (e) Hans Weiditz the Younger
(ca. 1485-1536) Woodcut (detail), printed in the German trans. of Petrarch's
De remediis
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Augsburg 1519/20, chapter on alchemy. (f) Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528): woodcut of an
alchemist, printed in Sebastian Brant's
Das Narrenschiff
(1494), chapter on forgery and
fraud.(g) David Teniers (the Younger or Elder?): “The Alchemist”, oil on canvas (Palazzo
Pitti, Galleria Palatina, Florence). (h) David Teniers: “The Village Doctor”, c. 1650, (Pal-
ais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels).
