Concept information
Preferred term
Cabinets of curiosities
Definition(s)
- Rooms housing collections of various objects, typically fossils, botanical rarities, shells and taxidermy, along with small artworks such as medallions and statuettes, arranged in cabinets as well as on the walls and ceilings; popular in 16th and 17th c. Europe; focused on the strange and unusual; have been described as the forerunner to the modern museum [AAT]; see also Cabinets (rooms), Collectors' cabinets, Schatzkammern, Studioli
Synonym(s)
- Art chambers
- Cabinets d'amateur
- Curiosities, cabinets of
- Curiosity cabinets
- Kunstkamer
- Kunstkammern
- Kunst- und Wunderkammern
- Natural curiosities, cabinets of
- Wunderkammern
Notation
- 110414
In other languages
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French
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Cabinet des merveilles
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Kunst- und Wunderkammern
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Kunstkamer
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Kunstkammern
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Wunderkammern
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-BHVC354V-R
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