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The Metabolism of Landscape: Ecology and Natural Philosophy in the Prints of Hercules Segers

The Courtauld Gallery · LondonThu 26 November 202617:30
The Courtauld Gallery
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The Courtauld Gallery
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DATES

Thu 26 November 2026

TIMES

17:30

PRICE

Free

Elizabeth J. Petcu reinterprets Segers's prints through seventeenth-century natural philosophy at The Courtauld, free but booking essential.

Join Elizabeth J. Petcu for a lecture reinterpreting Hercules Segers's prints through the lens of seventeenth-century natural philosophy, drawing on Aristotelian theories of metabolism as a mechanism of creative destruction. The talk takes place at The Courtauld Gallery's Research Forum. It's free to attend but booking is essential as places are limited.

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