Cabinet of curiosities
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For other uses, see Cabinet of curiosities (disambiguation).
"Musei Wormiani Historia", the frontispiece from the Museum Wormianum depicting Ole Worm's cabinet of curiosities.
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Cabinet of Curiosity ::
Cabinet of Curiosity ::
Cabinets of curiosities (also known as Kunstkabinett, Kunstkammer, Wunderkammer, Cabinets of Wonder, and wonder-rooms) were encyclopedic collections of objects whose categorical boundaries were, in Renaissance Europe, yet to be defined. Modern terminology would categorize the objects included as belonging to natural history (sometimes faked), geology, ethnography, archaeology, religious or historical relics, works of art (including cabinet paintings), and antiquities. "The Kunstkammer was regarded as a microcosm
or theater of the world, and a memory theater. The Kunstkammer conveyed
symbolically the patron's control of the world through its indoor,
microscopic reproduction."[1] Of Charles I of England's collection, Peter Thomas states succinctly, "The Kunstkabinett itself was a form of propaganda"[2]
Besides the most famous, best documented cabinets of rulers and
aristocrats, members of the merchant class and early practitioners of science in Europe formed collections that were precursors to museums.
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