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In seiner Erläuterung zum Bußpsalmencodex Albrechts V. bezeichnet Samuel Quicchelberg (1529–1567) den Codex als "Grundlegung zu einem Schauplatz des Wissens"– "fundatio theatri sapientiae". Ein kurzer Hinweis darauf, dass diese einmalige,... more
Samuel Quiccheberg Introduction by Mark A. Meadow Translation by Mark A. Meadow and Bruce Robertson Samuel Quiccheberg’s Inscriptiones, first published in Latin in 1565, is an ambitious effort to demonstrate the pragmatic value of... more
A short reflection on Kunst and Wunderkammers: How were they organised and displayed and what ideas did their owners attempt to convey through them?
Subject: History and Philosophy of Museum
Subject: History and Philosophy of Museum
The increased scholarly preoccupation with early modern collections and the Kunst- und Wunderkammer – seen during recent decades – has led to new understandings of how architectural arrangements of collections have developed within... more
ABSTRACT This study is an investigation and interpretation of the Kunstkammer and collection of Catherine of Austria (1507-1578), youngest sister of Charles V and Queen of Portugal. Neglected by Portuguese historians and art historians... more
Published by Annemarie Jordan in Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen in Wien, vol. 87 (1991), pp. 121-126. This article details the archival documents found in Torre do Tombo archive in Lisbon, and which document for the first... more
In this paper, I look at the ways that the Kunst- und Wunderkammers of the European Renaissance evoked animistic, spiritual understandings of the materials of the universe, and by doing so, functioned as divine spaces for their creators.... more
Paul Holberton Publishing, London
Expected 2022
Expected 2022
The book is dedicated to Elena V. Revunenkova and Alexander K. Ogloblin, University year-mates and life-time friends. Since their graduation in 1961 from the Indonesian philology department, Oriental Faculty of St.Petersburg State... more
The article positions early modern collecting in relation to wider cultures of knowledge production by using perspectives from the history of knowledge, memory studies, and recent studies of Kunstkammern. Some twenty-five years after the... more
This article examines the long overlooked representation of the 'art lover', or liefhebber, in the artist's studio in the seventeenth-century Netherlands and the ways in which the liefhebber's image coalesced with a larger cultural... more
Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria. A Second-Born Son in Renaissance Europe Edited by: Sylva DOBALOVÁ is Researcher at the Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences Jaroslava HAUSENBLASOVÁ is Assistant Professor at the Institute... more
The Kunstkammer of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II (1552-1612) in Prague was one of early modern Europe's most famed princely collections. Part of this renown stemmed from the collection's abundance of rare, exotic, costly and artfully... more
This article serves as an introduction to the use of beads – both indigenous and European – in surviving examples of body ornaments from the early colonial Caribbean: a cemí/belt in the collections of Rome’s Museo Nazionale Preistorico... more
During the early modem period, male artistic creativity was often formulated by means of representing a painter depicting a female nude. This essay examines the complexities and paradoxes of this artistic discourse by focusing on an... more
Frederick Ruysch, the most important Dutch anatomist of the seventeenth century, created an impressive collection of embalmed specimens intended to serve as an educational tool as well as a display of his artistic expression. It was... more
The Elector of Saxony’s wire drawing bench is an extremely complicated piece of art and technology which is relatively unknown outside France and Germany. It deserves to be more widely known not only amongst the general public, but also... more
ISBN: 978-85-54944-12-4 O período moderno é tido como momento de gênese e desenvolvimento de muitas práticas e ideias científicas e culturais ainda em vigor. Dentro dos campos da Museologia, História Cultural e História da Arte, as... more
Gegenwelten. Ein Forschungs- und Ausstellungsprojekt der Stiftung Universität Hildesheim und der Universität Innsbruck in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Roemer- und Pelizeus-Museum Hildesheim und Schloss Ambras Innsbruck
http://gegenwelten.eu/
http://gegenwelten.eu/
The Kunstkammer of Johann Septimius Jörger in Nuremberg, created in the middle of the 1630s and dispersed only after 1676, is not among the well-known collections of the 17th century. It is not mentioned in the correspondence of famous... more
During the thirty years that Rudolf II reigned in Bohemia, his residence in Prague Castle underwent a remarkable transformation. The main stage of this reconstruction was concentrated into the last decade of the Emperor’s life, when new... more
В книге на основании архивных документов, опубликованных материалов и исследований представлены в хронологическом порядке основные события, связанные с историей музея, формированием фондов, экспонированием коллекций, работой сотрудников... more
Sächsisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Dresden, 10026, Geh. Kab. Loc. 366/6, Der verwittibt gewesenen Römischen Kayserin Amalia Wilhelmina Majt: Erb- und Verlassenschaft betr.: Anno 1742 (fols. 246-280). Inventarium über die Verlassenschafft weyl... more
This paper deals with the remarkable genre of kunstkammer paintings – that is, paintings of picture galleries – that emerged and enjoyed a short life of fifty-odd years in the first half of the 17th century in Antwerp. These works have... more
*Academic Book Review* Jan Svankmajer – Dimension of Dialogue/ Between Film and Fine Art ed. Frantisek Dryje and Bertrand Schmitt. Revnice: Arbor Vitae, 2012. 508 pages. $49.95, paperback. Excerpt: The most interesting piece is perhaps... more
In seventeenth-century Europe, theories of knowledge were developed in symbiosis with the growth of new architectural types, themselves devised for the practices of science, collecting and ordering of knowledge. The period’s intellectual... more
The Kunstkammer of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II (1552–1612) in Prague was one of early modern Europe’s most famed princely collections. Part of this renown stemmed from the collection’s abundance of rare, exotic, costly and artfully... more
Mittelalterliche Objekte machten in frühneuzeitlichen Kunstkammern einen geringen Teil des Bestandes aus. Dennoch spielten Kunstkammern für die Bewahrung mittelalterlicher Artefakte, insbesondere aus weltlichem Zusammenhang, eine wichtige... more