Friday lates: art and alchemy - from ancient to contemporary

Prize open almost any alchemical tome and you’ll at once be dazzled by a magical mishmash of enigmatic and outlandish imagery. But just who were the artists creating these cryptic visions? And what were they trying to convey?
Take a whistle-stop tour through the history of art and alchemy, from ancient Byzantine manuscripts and medieval scrolls, through early modern engravings and satirical Renaissance portrayals. We’ll examine how artists have flirted with these occulted activities, from the visionary Romanticism of Blake and Runge, to Surrealists Leonora Carrington and Max Ernst, right up to Contemporary Artists such as Faith Wilding and Anish Kapoor.