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Journal articles on the topic "Curiosities and wonders Collectors and collecting"

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Jenkins, David. "Object Lessons and Ethnographic Displays: Museum Exhibitions and the Making of American Anthropology." Comparative Studies in Society and History 36, no. 2 (1994): 242–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0010417500019046.

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In the early nineteenth century, many private, well-to-do persons collected rocks, minerals, fossils, insects, skeletons, animal skins, Indian artifacts, and so on, for their aesthetic appeal or mystical connotations. Their fragmentary and miscellaneous collections incited wonder and admiration in those privileged to see them while communicating a narrative of the prestige, esoteric knowledge, and adventurous spirit of the collector. Referring to aesthetic and mystical, rather than scientific criteria, collectors juxtaposed a seemingly incongruous hodge-podge of objects in their cabinets—armad
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Margócsy, Dániel. "Horses, Curiosities, and the Culture of Collection at Early Modern Germanic Courts." Renaissance Quarterly 74, no. 4 (2021): 1210–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2021.200.

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This article offers a new interpretation of the concept of wonder in early modern Europe by focusing on large collections. It shows that many princely Kunstkammern were located above stables, and argues that the horses downstairs and the curiosities upstairs performed similar roles in the courtly display of power. The size and design of stables shaped how curiosities were exhibited and viewed. These majestic buildings facilitated cursory viewing experiences of the assemblage of a great number of animals and objects. They did not necessarily encourage the detailed examination of particular and
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Donelson, Ken. "Books about Book Collecting for English Teachers." English Journal 88, no. 5 (1999): 87–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.58680/ej1999449.

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Offers comments from collectors and dealers on the wonders and all-around fun of collecting books. Presents a short annotated list of books about book collecting and notes one book that will make readers want to collect books. Lists a baker’s dozen of other sources on book collecting and presents three quotations to end the matter.
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Dall’Aglio, Stefano. "The great collector and his man in Rome." Journal of the History of Collections 32, no. 3 (2019): 431–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhz040.

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Abstract This article analyses the relationship between one of early modern Italy’s most illustrious collectors, Prince and Cardinal Leopoldo de’ Medici (1617–1675), and his principal agent in Rome, Ottavio Falconieri (1636–1675). It draws on an extraordinary new source: a volume containing 350 original letters sent by Leopoldo to Ottavio, never before seen by any other scholar. Letters written by Leopoldo are rare documents: they provide a unique insight into his expectations, instructions and reactions, showing the active role he always played in the collecting process. These new letters als
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Domínguez, Julia. "Curious Knowledge: Diego Valadés’ Rhetorica Christiana as a Cabinet of Curiosity." Humanities 14, no. 6 (2025): 121. https://doi.org/10.3390/h14060121.

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This essay examines Diego Valadés, a Franciscan missionary, as a Renaissance “curioso” whose life and work were driven by insatiable inquisitiveness and a desire to acquire knowledge. Through his Rhetorica Christiana, Valadés, much like collectors of cabinets of curiosities and Wunderkammer, celebrated the richness of indigenous cultures in New Spain. Following the Renaissance ethos of curiosity-driven exploration that fostered a global pursuit of knowledge, Valadés’ work functions as a textual cabinet of curiosity, reflecting his experiences in New Spain and incorporating indigenous flora, fa
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Jarvis, Charles E. "‘The most common grass, rush, moss, fern, thistles, thorns or vilest weeds you can find’: James Petiver's plants." Notes and Records: the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science 74, no. 2 (2019): 303–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2019.0012.

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The dried plant specimens painstakingly acquired by the London apothecary James Petiver ( ca 1663–1718) from around the world constitute a substantial, but underappreciated, component of the vast herbarium of Sir Hans Sloane, now housed at London's Natural History Museum. Petiver was an observant field biologist whose own collecting was focused in south-east England. However, he also obtained specimens from an astoundingly wide geographical area via numerous collectors, more than 160 of whose names are known. While many were wild-collected, gardens in Great Britain and abroad also played a rol
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Kulakova, O. Yu. "Seashells in Dutch Still-Life Painting of the 17th Century." Art & Culture Studies, no. 2 (June 2021): 104–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.51678/2226-0072-2021-2-104-121.

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Dutch still-life is a distinctive cultural phenomenon of the 17th century. Collecting of rarities, curiosities, plants, paintings, sculptures and many other rare things was characteristic for that period. Seashells which were brought from the exotic countries attracted the attention and love of collectors and artists. J. Hoefnagel was one of the first who took an interest to seashells in the emblems. In the early Dutch flower still-life shells were found occasionally but from the beginning of the first quarter of the 17th century artists started to add these graceful creations almost into all
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Pachkalov, Alexander. "Studying and Collecting Coins of the Golden Horde in the Russian Empire in the Late 17th – Early 19th Centuries." Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Serija 4. Istorija. Regionovedenie. Mezhdunarodnye otnoshenija 29, no. 4 (2024): 91–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu4.2024.4.6.

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Introduction. The purpose of the article is to find out the state of Jochi numismatics in the Russian Empire by the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries. The novelty of the research. For the first time in one work, the currently known information about the origin of the study of the coins of the Golden Horde in the 18th century is presented. The beginning of systematic coin collecting in Russia was laid by Peter I, who himself was one of the first Russian collectors and collected coins, including “Tatar” (i.e. Golden Horde) coins in his collection. Methods and materials. Numisma
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Ekman, Mattias. "Curiosities in the Far North: Collecting networks in Norway, 1600–1730." Journal of the History of Collections, March 25, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhae008.

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Abstract According to conventional accounts of Norwegian museum history, Norway’s history of collecting began in the second half of the eighteenth century. However, this article, which is the first comprehensive investigation into Norway’s involvement with seventeenth-century collecting cultures, shows that the country’s museum and collecting history began more than a hundred years earlier. It addresses the question of infrastructure: namely, how Norway and Norwegians came into contact with Danish and other continental collectors and collections. While some networks engaged explicitly in the e
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Khalid Sindawi. "Some Comments on Early Arab "Wonders and Marvels" Literature." EVOLUTIONARY STUDIES IN IMAGINATIVE CULTURE, September 3, 2024, 98–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.70082/esiculture.vi.772.

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This study discusses copious early Arab literature of "wonders and marvels". The authors of such books found their materials in the Muslim religion, in the ancient Arab heritage and in strange facts about other cultures. The study examines the themes addressed by these works, including magic, fantasy, strange customs, curiosities, humor, the absurd, mockery, nightly chats, puzzles, riddles, rebuke, satire, defamation, battles, animals, angels, demons, etc. Composers of "wonders and marvels" books chose rhyming names for their works in order to attract the reader. The study found that the popul
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Curiosities and wonders Collectors and collecting"

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Mitchell, Sarah. "The Kunstkammer object in seventeenth-century Salzburg : a case study, early modern collections, transformation and materiality." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=83130.

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The phenomenon of princely and scientific collections that proliferated in Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries has become an important focus for modern historical analysis. These collections provide a microcosm of contemporary political, economic and philosophical ideas, often characterized by geographical and cultural differences. The mid-seventeenth century Kunst- and Wunderkammer studied here, instituted by the archbishops of Salzburg, brings forward themes sometimes neglected in the literature. The archbishops' collection was part of broader efforts to reinvent the
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Rawson, Helen C. "Treasures of the University : an examination of the identification, presentation and responses to artefacts of significance at the University of St Andrews, from 1410 to the mid-19th century, with an additional consideration of the development of the portrait collection to the early 21st century." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/990.

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Since its foundation between 1410 and 1414 the University of St Andrews has acquired what can be considered to be ‘artefacts of significance’. This somewhat nebulous phrase is used to denote items that have, for a variety of reasons, been deemed to have some special import by the University, and have been displayed or otherwise presented in a context in which this status has been made apparent. The types of artefacts in which particular meaning has been vested during the centuries under consideration include items of silver and gold (including the maces, sacramental vessels of the Collegiate C
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Books on the topic "Curiosities and wonders Collectors and collecting"

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Giacobbe, Luigi. L'antiquario al tavolino: Andrea Gallo e la formazione di una wunderkammer nella Sicilia del Settecento. Magika, 2009.

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Praze, Uměleckoprůmyslové muzeum v. Kabinety umení a kuriosit: Pět století sběratelství uměleckého řemesla : Císařská Konírna Pražského Hradu, od 20. prosince 1995 do 28. dubna 1996 = Cabinets of arts and curiosities : five centuries of arts and crafts collecting : the Imperial Stable in the Prague Castle, from 20 December 1995 to 28 March 1996. Správa Pražského Hradu, Uměleckoprůmyslové Muzeum v Praze = The Prague Castle Management, Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, 1995.

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Wilfried, Seipel, and Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, eds. Exotica: Portugals Entdeckungen im Spiegel fürstlicher Kunst- und Wunderkammern der Renaissance ; eine Ausst. d. Kunsthist. Museums Wien mit Unterstütz. d. Calouste Gulbenkian Mus. in Lissabon; Kunsthist. Mus., 3.3.-21.5.00. Skira, 2000.

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Wilfried, Seipel, Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, and Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, eds. Exotica: Portugals Entdeckungen im Spiegel fürstlicher Kunst- und Wunderkammern der Renaissance : eine Ausstellung des Kunsthistorischen Museums Wien mit Unterstützung des Calouste Gulbankian Museums in Lissabon : Kunsthistorisches Museum 3. März bis 21. Mai 2000. Skira, 2000.

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Iinkai, INAX Gyararī Kikaku. Hayashi Jōji-teki kōgengaku: He to Fujisan. INAX Suppan, 2000.

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Hergovich, Marianne. Die Entdeckung der Welt, die Welt der Entdeckungen: Österreichische Forscher, Sammler, Abenteurer : eine Ausstellung des Kunsthistorischen Museums Wien mit Museum für Völkerkunde und des Bundesministeriums für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Naturhistorischen Museum und dem Heeresgeschichtlichen Museum ; KHM, Wien, Künstlerhaus, 27. Oktober 2001 bis 13. Jänner 2002. Edited by Hölzl Christian and Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien. Kunsthistorisches Museum, 2001.

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1967-, Müsch Irmgard, Willman Rainer 1950-, Rust Jes 1963-, and Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Netherlands), eds. Cabinet of natural curiosities =: Das Naturalienkabinett = Le cabinet des curiosités naturelles : Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri, 1734-1765. 2nd ed. Taschen, 2005.

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France), Musée Gassendi (Digne-les-Bains, ed. Nouvelles curiosités: New curiosities. Musée Gassendi, 2003.

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Hans-Günter, Golinski, Hiekisch-Picard Sepp, Fabuloserie, and Museum Bochum, eds. La Fabuloserie: Museum der Teufel und Engel : die Art-brut-Sammlung Alain und Caroline Bourbonnais. Museum Bochum, 2000.

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Fanucci, Chiara. Le collezioni extraeuropee a Firenze e in Toscana. Edifir edizioni Firenze, 2021.

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Pellegrini, Emanuele. "The Last Wunderkammer : Curiosities in Private Collections between the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries." In Ephemeral Spectacles, Exhibition Spaces and Museums. Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463720908_ch09.

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In his description of the magnificent Vanderbilt collection located on Fifth Avenue in New York, Earl Shinn pointed out the presence of a medieval Venetian ivory casket in the Japanese parlor. Wonder serves as the guiding principle for the display of objects selected according to their provenance and for their very different chronologies. In this context, eclecticism concerns more than a mere display of heterogeneous artifacts, it is a way to create resplendent interiors and to allow visitors sink into a sense of wonder. This chapter reconsiders the key concepts of curiosity and eclecticism, n
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Rublack, Ulinka. "The Art Agent." In Dürer's Lost Masterpiece. Oxford University PressOxford, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198873105.003.0024.

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Abstract This part examines an exceptional merchant characteristic of this age. Philipp Hainhofer (1578–1647) was a new type of Protestant luxury merchant who acted internationally as a professional art agent for courts, including the Catholic court of Bavaria. Hainhofer coordinated entire teams of Augsburg’s luxury craftspeople over decades to produce cabinets of curiosities as single pieces of furniture filled with hundreds of exquisite objects. Nowadays his creations feature in the glitziest of artbooks. They represent the best of the best in that age, and encapsulate its philosophical and
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Holt, Frank L. "The Second Wave." In When Money Talks. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197517659.003.0005.

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Renaissance antiquarians relied heavily upon coins to reconnect with the Classical world. Popes and princes became avid collectors, stocking their Kunstkammern (cabinets of curiosities) with thousands of numismatic treasures. Collecting led to cataloguing and research, but also to the production of forgeries and fantasy coins to feed the antiquities market and to fill the gaps of history. Books showcased imagined coin portraits of every notable figure beginning with Adam and Eve. This preoccupation with portraiture abetted the use of physiognomy by numismatists, who sought psychological insigh
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Nowakowski, Wojciech. "Die ostpreußischen Sammlungen der »vaterländischen Alterthümer« im 18 Jh." In Collecting Antiquities from the Middle Ages to the End of the Nineteenth Century: Proceedings of the International Conference Held on March 25-26, 2021 at the Wrocław University Institute of Art History. Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12797/9788381385862.07.

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COLLECTIONS OF ‘HOMELANDS ANTIQUITIES’ FROM EAST PRUSSIA IN 18TH CENTURY In the 18th century the interest in archaeology in East Prussia had grown incredibly. Thus, there was a great development of archaeological collections, even if the collecting was not understood as assembly of “national antiquities”, but rather as gathering the curiosities, testifying an attractiveness of a particular parish or communes. A special role played the clergymen who had the frequent contacts with peasants finding archeological relics accidentally, during the field works. One of the most outstanding collectors w
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Fagan, Brian. "The Antiquarians." In From Stonehenge to Samarkand. Oxford University Press, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195160918.003.0005.

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“Time we may comprehend,” wrote the English physician Sir Thomas Browne in 1643. “’Tis but five days older than ourselves.” Browne’s view of the past encompassed the Greeks and Romans and a humankind created by God in the Old Testament. Also in the seventeenth century, Archbishop James Ussher of Armagh in Ireland used the long genealogies in the Scriptures to calculate that the world had been created on the evening of October 22, 4004 B.C. Thus, according to Christian dogma, the entire span of human existence was a mere six thousand years. After the collapse of the Roman Empire, the study of t
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