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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