Cabinet of Rarities Antiquarian Obsessions and the Spell of Death

Name: Cabinet of Rarities Antiquarian Obsessions and the Spell of Death
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ISBN: 9780500516348

ISBN-10: 0500516340

ISBN-13: 9780500516348

Edition: 2012

Authors: Erik Desmazieres, Patrick Mauriï¿½s

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The manifestation of a collector’s appetite for discovering and mastering theworld—represented by singular items of natural history, geology, art, orrelics—cabinets of curiosities and rarities became popular in the Renaissanceand were precursors to the modern museum.Largely inspired by seventeenth-century scientist and antiquary Sir ThomasBrowne, whose esoteric writings have long appealed to scholars, this rarenew work is a bibliophile’s delight. Erik Desmazières’s contemporary etchingspresent a cabinet of rarities portraying a collection of the recondite, rare, andbizarre, complete with emblems of the vanity of earthly life and intimationsof mortality. Death and decay are favorite…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Thames & Hudson, Limited
Publication date: 10/8/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 112
Size: 8.53" wide x 11.32" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.716
Language: English