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Cabinets de curiosités

Unicorns' horns, mermaids' skeletons, stuffed and preserved animals and plants, work in precious metals, clocks, scientific instruments, celestial globes . . . all knowledge, the whole cosmos arranged on shelves. Such were the cabinets of curiosities of the seventeenth century, the last period of history when man could aspire to know everything. Who were the collectors? They were archdukes and kings-the Emperor Rudolf II was the prince of all collectors-rich merchants and scholars, and their collections ranged from a single crowded room to whole palatial suites. Patrick Maurie`s traces the amazing history of these "rooms of wonders" in this ingeniously erudite survey. Not many of the rooms survive, though there are pictorial records, but their contents still exist and are among the treasures of museums all over the world.

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  • "Unicorns' horns, mermaids' skeletons, stuffed and preserved animals and plants, work in precious metals, clocks, scientific instruments, celestial globes . . . all knowledge, the whole cosmos arranged on shelves. Such were the cabinets of curiosities of the seventeenth century, the last period of history when man could aspire to know everything. Who were the collectors? They were archdukes and kings-the Emperor Rudolf II was the prince of all collectors-rich merchants and scholars, and their collections ranged from a single crowded room to whole palatial suites. Patrick Maurie`s traces the amazing history of these "rooms of wonders" in this ingeniously erudite survey. Not many of the rooms survive, though there are pictorial records, but their contents still exist and are among the treasures of museums all over the world."@en
  • "Overzicht van de geschiedenis van het verzamelen van curiosa."
  • ""Unicorns' horns, mermaids' skeletons, stuffed and preserved animals and plants, work in precious metals, clocks, scientific instruments, celestial globes . . . all knowledge, the whole cosmos arranged on shelves. Such were the cabinets of curiosities of the seventeenth century, the last period of history when man could aspire to know everything. Who were the collectors? They were archdukes and kings--the Emperor Rudolf II was the prince of all collectors--rich merchants and scholars, and their collections ranged from a single crowded room to whole palatial suites. Patrick Mauriee`s traces the amazing history of these "rooms of wonders" in this ingeniously erudite survey. Not many of the rooms survive, though there are pictorial records, but their contents still exist and are among the treasures of museums all over the world."--Amazon."
  • "Histoire et postérité de ces collections d'amateurs que créèrent en Europe dès la fin de la Renaissance, souverains, savants, notables. Dans ces lieux se mêlaient spécimens d'histoire naturelle, objets d'art, curiosités (corne de licorne, pierres magiques...), formant des collections marquées par le goût pour le bizarre, le merveilleux et les connaissances scientifiques."

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  • "Pictorial works"
  • "Collectiecatalogus"
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  • "History"
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  • "Das Kuriositätenkabinett Die Geschichte einer Faszination"
  • "Das Kuriositatenkabinett"
  • "Cabinets de curiosités"@en
  • "Das Kuriositätenkabinett"
  • "Cabinets de curiosités"
  • "Cabinets of curiosities"@en
  • "Cabinets of curiosities"
  • "Le stanze delle meraviglie"@it
  • "Le stanze delle meraviglie"

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