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Re: I need help with early collectors
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"Callery, Bernadette" <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 1 Mar 2000 08:37:36 -0500
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Two excellent studies specializing in the "cabinet of curiosities" period of
museum collecting, and thick with footnotes, are

Impey, Oliver and Arthur MacGregor, eds.  The origins of museums: the
cabinet of curiosities in sixteenth and seventeenth-century Europe.  Oxford,
1985

Pomian, Krzysztof, Collectors and curiosities, Paris and Venice 1500-1800.
Cambridge, 1990.

Bernadette G. Callery, Museum Librarian
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
4400 Forbes Ave.
Pittsburgh, Pa  15213
Voice:  412-622-8870    FAX: 412-622-8837
Email:  [log in to unmask]

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