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Collecting for the Kunstkammer


Collecting for the Kunstkammer | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

Koeppe, Wolfram. “Collecting for the Kunstkammer.” In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–.

Kunstkammers, Wunderkammers, and Cabinets of Curiosities

Visibility and access are key components in collections, and kunstkammers were no different. Allowing guests and visitors to see your kunstkammer was just ...

Objects for a Kunstkammer: Early European Collecting, 1550-1700

In the 16th and 17th centuries, European princes and humanists fashioned Kunstkammern, rooms of art, that reflected the world in all its variety.

History of the collection - Kunsthistorisches Museum

In 1919 it was given the equally inappropriate name “Collection of Sculpture, Arts and Crafts”. Because the holdings included few large sculptures and ...

Cabinet of curiosities - Wikipedia

Cabinets of curiosities (German: Kunstkammer and Kunstkabinett), also known as wonder-rooms (German: Wunderkammer), were encyclopedic collections of objects ...

The Early Modern Kunstkammer: Collecting What the World Has to ...

A critical new chapter in the history of collecting arose in the second half of the 16th century along with the advent of European global ...

Kunstkammer Gallery | Museum of Fine Arts Boston

The term Kunstkammer refers to a collector's cabinet, or small room, that came into fashion with royalty and nobility across Europe in the 17th century.

Objects on the Move: From the Kunstkammer into the Museum

The exhibition intervention presents selected objects from the Kunstkammer, their biographies and changing collection assignments.

Kunstkammer | art collection - Britannica

Other articles where Kunstkammer is discussed: art market: Northern Europe and the Austrian Empire: …Alps these were known as Kunstkammern or Wunderkammern, ...

Kunstkammer Wien The Cradle of the Museum

The Kunstkammer Wien is the most important collection of its kind in the world. Since March 1, 2013 this unique collection is now again open to the public.

Crown the *Kunstkammer - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Crown the Kunstkammer! · Search our online collection to find an object that strikes your fancy and looks like it would fit in one of the two ...

Five natural materials found in a Kunstkammer

A Kunstkammer was an encyclopedic collection of notable objects, including rare and precious works of art made of a wide variety of materials.

The market for kunstkammers | Apollo Magazine

The Kunstkammer or Wunderkammer – the cabinet of art and the cabinet of curiosity – became the theatres for a new style of collecting. These ...

Kunstkammer Vienna

More than 2100 valuable objects, which were collected by the emperors and archdukes of Habsburg over centuries, are on display in the Kunstkammer Vienna, ...

The rise of private collecting and the Kunstkammer - Fiveable

The Kunstkammer, or cabinet of curiosities, emerged as an early museum. These diverse collections displayed art, scientific instruments, and ...

Wunderkammer Artificialia - South Street Seaport Museum

“Kunst and Wunderkammern” by Georg Laue, Kunstkammer Georg Laue. “Collecting for the Kunstkammer” by Wolfram Koeppe. The Metropolitan Museum ...

Kunst- and Wunderkammer - Kunstkammer Georg Laue

These collections reflected the power and the wealth of the owner as well as mirrored the worldview and state of knowledge at the time. At first, these ...

How Cabinets of Curiosities Laid the Foundation for Modern Museums

Collectors imposed their own systems and hierarchies on the art, antiques, plants and animals within their cabinets in an attempt to create an ...

Wunderkammer: Cabinet of Curiosities - Royal Collection Trust

Wunderkammer is literally translated from German as a 'room of wonder'. In English it is usually referred to as a 'Cabinet of Curiosities'.

Chapter 1 Sculpture Collecting and the Kunstkammer in - Brill

Chapter 1 Sculpture Collecting and the Kunstkammer ... The most authoritative account of sculpture collecting in the largest Kunstkammern of the ...