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At first, amateur and professional scientists kept their most prized specimens hidden away, until royalty and other members of elite. Cabinets of curiosity also known as wunderkammer, cabinets of wonder and wonderrooms developed during the 17th and 18th centuries, and were essentially the precursors to the modern museum. Cabinet of curiosities the official website of douglas. He has written widely on the fashion world and art. Then you can start reading kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer no kindle device required. Modern terminology would categorize the objects included as belonging to natural history sometimes faked, geology. Supplier of skulls, bones, human skeletons, ethnographic and antique natural history specimens. Cabinets of curiosities by patrick mauries 9780500022887. My husband picked up this copy almost a year ago for me and has been waiting patiently ever since for me to read it. Together they heralded a resurgence of interest in cabinets of curiosity. Free download or read online the cabinet of curiosities pdf epub pendergast series book. Through the selection of objects, they told a particular story about the world and its history. A cabinet of curiosities was an encyclopedic collection in renaissance europe of types of objects whose categorial boundaries were yet to be defined. Patrick mauries cabinets of curiosities is a study of rooms of wonder.
Filled with medical oddities, strange and eerie items, and things that surely are cursed in the best possible way. The book was the result of a fiveday conference held to celebrate the ashmolean museums tercentenary in 1983. They were also known by various names such as cabinet of wonder, and in german kunstkammer artroom or wunderkammer wonderroom. Buy cabinets of curiosities by patrick mauries from waterstones today. Built during the baroque age in europe, these roomssometimes large chambers and in other cases simply elaborate cabinetsheld the natural and mechanical treasures that wealthy collectors assembled, often in an attempt to structure for themselves an entire universe. Ive been fascinated with the topic for a long time, and decided that it was time for me to add a book about cabinets of curiosities to my art book collection. Patrick mauriees is a parisbased writer of many notable titles on fashion and design. Modern terminology would categorize the objects included as belonging to natural history sometimes faked. Infinite riches in a little room such were the cabinets of curiosities of the 17th century, the last. Get it today with same day delivery, order pickup or drive up. Thanks to macgregors and impeys pioneering work, the 1980s and 1990s saw a wave of new thinking on the subject, bringing the voices of krystof pomian. The epilogue from coc that was suppressed from the published book. Each cabinet contains hundreds of objects, each with its own curious history. A coffee table book for people who cannot afford a collection of curiosities, or who are curious to see the cabinets of others.
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