All knowledge, the cosmos arranged on shelves, in cupboards, or hanging from the ceiling, 'infinite riches in a little room' - such were the cabinets of curiosities of the 17th century. This survey, now available in a compact edition, traces the amazing history of cabinets of curiosities, from their first appearance in the inventories and engravings commissioned by Renaissance nobles such as the Medici or the Hapsburgs, via those of the Dane Ole Wurm and the Italian polymath Athanasius Kircher, to the serious 17th- and 18th ...
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All knowledge, the cosmos arranged on shelves, in cupboards, or hanging from the ceiling, 'infinite riches in a little room' - such were the cabinets of curiosities of the 17th century. This survey, now available in a compact edition, traces the amazing history of cabinets of curiosities, from their first appearance in the inventories and engravings commissioned by Renaissance nobles such as the Medici or the Hapsburgs, via those of the Dane Ole Wurm and the Italian polymath Athanasius Kircher, to the serious 17th- and 18th-century scientists Elias Ashmole and Levinas Vincent.
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VG/VG (Bookplate and few marks from previous art-library owner; otherwise quite nice. ) Forest green boards, white & color illus. dust jacket, 256 pp., 139 color illus., 133 BW illus. "Once the concern of scholars and art historians, the cabinet of curiosities has, since the Surrealists, undergone an astonishing revival as an object of aesthetic pleasure, while emerging as a source of inspiration for interior decorators and conetmporary artists. This is one of those rare books that rescues an exciting but apparently abstruse subject from the past and shows its considerable resonant power to interest, excite and move us today." (dj) Lavishly illustrated with scenes of the cabinets of the past.
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