Georgiana Houghton was a spiritualist medium who was trained in classical art but gave up painting after the death of her younger sister in 1851. A decade later, after she had become aquatinted with spiritualism she began once more to put coloured pencils and watercolours to paper. However, this time she said it was spirits […]
“The status of fiction has vanished into the myth of the fact.” —Robert Smithson The first museums in European history took as their central project the task of indexing, ordering, and classifying their objects. If the collection that gave birth to one early museum, the Ashmolean, initially aimed to include (in the words of its […]
Marianne North was an early female explorer, naturalist and painter. Her life, as she described it, was one of “wander...
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About the Authors: Douglas Preston Born: May 20, 1956, Cambridge, Massachusetts Education: B.A.-English Literature, Pomona College, Claremont, CA Lincoln Child Born: Westport, Connecticut Education…
Wayne Chisnall's assemblage sculpture The City, a "mobile cabinet of curiosities," will be displayed at TROVE gallery, in the Engine Room of Birmingham's Science and Industry Museum for a show…
The collection obsession of Early Modern Europe, that saw people stocking cabinets of curiosities ( 'wund...
Henry Moore: The whole of nature is an endless demonstration of shape and form. It always surprises me when artists try to escape from this. One of Moore’s several studios He…
Stuffed pelicans, bell-jarred oddities and unicorn horns: the wunderkammer – or 'cabinet of curiosities' – is a macabre, colonial throwback. So why is it back in vogue, asks Philip Hoare
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The feeling of arousing surprise for the observer is typical for the so-called Wunderkammer or Cabinets of curiosities.
Cabinets of curiosities… were encyclopedic collections of types 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…” I particularly like the term "memory theater," because one of my stated purposes in creating the blog is as a place to store things I want to see again when my memory starts to fade. The term cabinet originally described a room* rather than a piece of furniture... The juxtaposition of such disparate objects... encouraged comparisons, finding analogies and parallels... Several internet bloggers describe their sites as a wunderkammer, either because they are comprised primarily of links to things that are interesting, or because they inspire wonder in a similar manner to the original wunderkammer.*1549, from M.Fr. cabinet "small room," dim. of O.Fr. cabane "cabin"
The collection obsession of Early Modern Europe, that saw people stocking cabinets of curiosities ( 'wund...
Le più avvincenti Wunderkammer d'Europa nel volume fotografico Cabinet of curiosities del fotografo d'architettura Massimo Listri
Intricately Crafted Marine Life Specimens Suspended In Glass
The collection obsession of Early Modern Europe, that saw people stocking cabinets of curiosities ( 'wund...
Step inside the Paris cabinet of curiosities that has a cult following among aesthetes
Discover the most famous cabinets of curiosities around the world, the Comptoir Général magazine tells you all about this trend.
Frans Francken the Younger The Cabinet of a Collector 1617
