Art and Curiosity Cabinets of the Late Renaissance: A Contribution to the History of Collecting
Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2021.
Paperback.
Edited and introduced by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann; Translated by Jonathan Blower.
This volume is the first English-language translation of a work originally published in 1908 as Die Kunst- und Wunderkammern der Spatrenaissance by Austrian art historian and curator Julius von Schlosser. Schlosser's work was the first study to interpret sixteenth- and seventeenth-century cabinets of wonder as precursors to the modern museum. His treatise situates Renaissance curiosity cabinets within a comparative history of collecting reaching back to Greco-Roman antiquity, laying the foundation for the fields of museum studies and the history of collections. In his introduction, art historian Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann traces Schlosser's biography and intellectual formation in Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century and contextualizes his work among that of his contemporaries.
Item #901720ISBN: 9781606066652
6-7/8 x 9-7/8", pictorial wrappers, xi, 231pp, notes, glossary of selected key terms, additional references, biographical notes on contributors, illustration credits, index, illustrated with 8 text figures in the introduction, 98 text figures in the text.
In very fine condition.
Price: $50.00