File:Beccafumi - The various operations of alchemy, 1540-1550, 1866,0714.44.jpg

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Alchemists and the planetary metals: the search for the metals among the rocks.

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Artist
Domenico Beccafumi  (–1551)  wikidata:Q455712 q:it:Domenico Beccafumi
 
Domenico Beccafumi
Alternative names
Domenico Mecarino, Domenico Mecharino, Domenico Mecherino, Domenico Mecuccio, Domenico Micarino, Domenico di Giuliano da Parma, Birth name: Domenico di Pace
Description Italian painter, sculptor, xylographer, miniature painter, engraver and graphic artist
Date of birth/death 1484 / 1486 Edit this at Wikidata 18 May 1551
Location of birth/death Montaperti near Siena Siena
Work period 16th century
date QS:P,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
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Work location
Rome (1510–1512), Siena (1512–1551), Rome (1519), Genoa (1534), Pisa (1537-1539), Genoa (1541)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q455712
Description
English: The various operations of alchemy: searching for the (personified) planetary metals, among the ten woodcut compositions created by Domenico Beccafumi
Italiano: Seconda incisione delle dieci composizioni xilografiche realizzate da Domenico Beccafumi riguardanti l'alchimia: ricerca dei metalli planetari (personificati) tra le rocce, da parte di Vulcano e un alchimista
Date between 1540 and 1550
date QS:P571,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1540-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1553739&partId=1&searchText=Beccafumi&page=1

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