Cabinets of Curiosities
$45.00
- Hardcover
256 pages
- Release Date
18 July 2019
Summary
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.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780500022887 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0500022887 |
| Author: | Patrick Mauriès |
| Publisher: | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Imprint: | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 18 July 2019 |
| Weight: | 1.25kg |
| Dimensions: | 33mm x 197mm x 262mm |
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Critics Review
Captivating … just to read about the chaos of the cabinets, let alone look at the many beautiful images selected by Mauriès, is dizzying … Mauriès offers the kind of historical unity of which the early collectors, with their wonderful curiosity and lust for affinity, would have been proud * The Times Higher Education Supplement *
Mauriès’ book’s splendiferous illustrations, some of which fold out to disclose shocks within, alternate the delightful and the disturbing’ * Guardian *
Splendid * Times Literary Supplement *
One of the most beautiful art books you will ever see * World of Interiors *
Awesome … a splendid memento mori * Irish Times *
Patrick Mauriès
Patrick Mauriès is the coauthor of Chanel Catwalk and The World According to Karl, and the author of Jewelry by Chanel and Fornasetti.
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