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Description:The manifestation of a collector's appetite for discovering and mastering the world;represented by singular items of natural history, geology, art, orrelics&cabinets of curiosities and rarities became popular in the Renaissance and were precursors to the modern museum.Largely inspired by seventeenth-century scientist and antiquary Sir Thomas Browne, whose esoteric writings have long appealed to scholars, this rare new work is a bibliophile's delight. Erik Desmazières's contemporary etchings present a cabinet of rarities portraying a collection of the recondite, rare, and bizarre, complete with emblems of the vanity of earthly life and intimations of mortality. Death and decay are favorite subjects: a skull recalls depictionsof Sir Thomas Browne&amp's own, disinterred and displayed in a local museum until the 1920s. These abstruse objects and specters of death, subject matter once considered the preserve of specialists, have entered the cultural mainstreamand have found a broad popular audience.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Cabinet of Rarities: Antiquarian Obsessions and the Spell of Death. To get started finding A Cabinet of Rarities: Antiquarian Obsessions and the Spell of Death, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The manifestation of a collector's appetite for discovering and mastering the world;represented by singular items of natural history, geology, art, orrelics&cabinets of curiosities and rarities became popular in the Renaissance and were precursors to the modern museum.Largely inspired by seventeenth-century scientist and antiquary Sir Thomas Browne, whose esoteric writings have long appealed to scholars, this rare new work is a bibliophile's delight. Erik Desmazières's contemporary etchings present a cabinet of rarities portraying a collection of the recondite, rare, and bizarre, complete with emblems of the vanity of earthly life and intimations of mortality. Death and decay are favorite subjects: a skull recalls depictionsof Sir Thomas Browne&amp's own, disinterred and displayed in a local museum until the 1920s. These abstruse objects and specters of death, subject matter once considered the preserve of specialists, have entered the cultural mainstreamand have found a broad popular audience.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Cabinet of Rarities: Antiquarian Obsessions and the Spell of Death. To get started finding A Cabinet of Rarities: Antiquarian Obsessions and the Spell of Death, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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