Katharyn--
I agree with Marta about:
  Mauriès, Patrick. Cabinets of Curiosities. London: Thames & Hudson, 2002.

  It's a gorgeous, well-written  book that covers 
cabinets of curiosities from medieval church 
relics to 20th C artists.  It has a short 
bibliography. The index is terrible; the picture 
credits more useful.

I just bought the book at the bookshop of the 
Gustavianum/Uppsala University Museum. The 
Gustavianum has an extraordinary cabinet made in 
Augsburg ca. 1625 (given to Gustavus Adolphus by 
the Augsburg citizens as thanks for saving their 
city from invasion by Roman Catholics). It has so 
many secret compartments that the museum had to 
X-ray the cabinet to make sure they had found 
everything! For more information, you  could get 
in touch with [log in to unmask] (Mikael 
Norrby), who gives very good tours of the 
Augsburg cabinet.

It does not have, as far I can see,  Rosamond Purcell's Two Rooms,
the re-creation of Olaus Wormius's 17th C cabinet 
that  Ed Rodley mentioned. (For a description see 
http://www.tufts.edu/as/gallery/shows/purcell.html)

For any exhibition on cabinets of curiosities, 
I'd want to include the print, Wunderkammer, by 
Erik Desmazières, that Mauriès uses on his 
endpapers. To my mind, Desmazières is our 
reincarnation of Dürer, Rembrandt, and Piranesi, 
rolled into one.

Karen
9/29/2005
-- 
Karen Reeds, Ph.D.
Guest Curator, Linnaeus & America
American Swedish Historical Museum, Philadelphia
http://www.americanswedish.org/linnaeus.html

Read about our first Linnaeus Day Talk & Walk 
(CityPaper 5/19/05) and find out why the 
Philadelphia Inquirer (6/28/05) called Linnaeus 
"One Significant Swede" 
http://citypaper.net/articles/2005-05-19/mixpicks2.shtml
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/entertainment/12000394.htm

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