"I wonder ... " : a short history of amazement

Author

Onians, John

Document type

Article (livre)

Language

English

Book title

Sight and insight : essays on art and culture in honour of E.H. Gombrich at 85

Author (monograph)

Onians, John (Editor, Collective Author)

Source

Sight and insight : essays on art and culture in honour of E.H. Gombrich at 85. 1994, 10-33, 15 ill. (2 col.)

Publisher

Phaidon, London (gbr)

Publication country

United Kingdom

Abstract (en)

Considers parallels between the natural world and ages of wonder, culminating in the cabinets of curiosities of the 16th and 17th cs.

Subject (en)

• General history of art
• Wonder
• Curiosity
• Marvelous, The
• Art
• Cabinets of curiosities
• 1500-1700

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art
• Emerveillement
• Curiosité
• Merveilleux, Le
• Art
• Cabinet de curiosités
• 1500-1700

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19941001-00349006

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