Screen LibraryCuriosity and enlightenment：collectors and collections from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century
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Yale University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New Haven [Conn.] London |
| Publication Dates: | c2007. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | x, 386 p.: ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780300124934 (cloth : alk. paper) 0300124937 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | J |
| CLC: |
J-28 J110.94 |
| Call Number: | J-28/M147 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-370) and index. The museum adumbrated : some models and precursors -- The cabinet of curiosities : concept and realization -- Collecting art -- Museums and the natural world -- Death, anatomy and the museum -- Antiquity in transition -- Museums of science and technology -- The museum comes of age. "This fascinating book offers a history of museum collecting in western Europe over the course of its formative centuries, tracing its origins from the culture of collecting that emerged during the Renaissance and concluding with the great changes of the nineteenth century which would prove so influential to the museum movement of later years." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0833/2007037995-d.html. |