Cabinets of transgression : Renaissance collections and the incorporation of the New World

Author

Shelton, Anthony Alan

Document type

Article (livre)

Language

English

Book title

Cultures of collecting

Author (monograph)

Elsner, John (Editor, Collective Author); Cardinal, Roger (Editor, Collective Author)

Source

Cultures of collecting. 1994, 177-203, 6 ill.

Publisher

Reaktion, London (gbr)

Publication country

United Kingdom

Abstract (en)

Examines Renaissance interpretations of the significance of natural and artificial curiosities from the New World, tracing the philosophical speculations and attitudes inherited from the Middle Ages that lay behind the culture of collecting between the 16th and 18th cs.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1400-1800 -- Decorative arts
• Objects
• Cabinets of curiosities
• Classification
• Reception
• Europe
• 1500-1800
• Aesthetics
• America
• Collections
• Collectors
• Interpretation
• Marvelous, The
• Culture

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1400-1800 -- Arts décoratifs
• Objet
• Cabinet de curiosités
• Classification
• Réception
• Europe
• 1500-1800
• Esthétique
• Amérique
• Collections
• Collectionneurs
• Interprétation
• Merveilleux, Le
• Culture

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19941001-00348943

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