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  Cabinets of Curiosities (Hardback) By (author) Patrick Mauries

  

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  Short Description for Cabinets of CuriositiesTraces the 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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  • Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
  • Published: 01 October 2011
  • Format: Hardback 256 pages
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  • Categories: Styles | Museums & Museology | Antiques & Collectables
  • ISBN 13: 9780500515945 ISBN 10: 0500515948
  • Sales rank: 49,123

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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 "PLC", 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.