A Cabinet of Rarities: Antiquarian Obsessions and the Spell of Death by Erik Desmazieres, Patrick Mauriès

A Cabinet of Rarities: Antiquarian Obsessions and the Spell of Death

Erik Desmazieres, Patrick Mauriès

110 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction art history informative medium-paced

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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 precur...

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