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Cabinets of Curiosity What are Cabinets of Curiosity? Background Context -Renaissance -The world was expanding due to trade -Europe obsessed with collecting (particularly Britain) Why? -Precursor to museums -Finding pleasure in small

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Cabinets of Curiosity

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What are Cabinets of Curiosity?

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Background Context

  • Renaissance
  • The world was expanding due to trade
  • Europe obsessed with collecting (particularly Britain)
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Why?

  • Precursor to museums
  • Finding pleasure in small objects
  • Form of domestic entertainment

and pride

  • Highly customized and self

referential (storytelling)

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Who?

MonaRcHs and aRisTocRaTs

  • Earliest to embrace collecting
  • mostly collected things of value (e.g. treasure)

MiddlE class BRiTain

  • things that could be afgorded from merchants

and travellers

  • items collected for their intrigue rather than

their value

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The John Tradescants

“The Elder” “The Younger”

  • Royal botanist to charles i
  • The “ark” (the fjrst cabinet of curiosity)
  • Musaeum Tradescantianum

(First purpose-built museum)

  • Elias ashmole (ashmolean Museum)
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The John Tradescants

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The John Tradescants

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The John Tradescants

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John Bargrave

  • Traveler
  • collector
  • author
  • canon of canterbury
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John Bargrave

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John Bargrave

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John Bargrave

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John Bargrave

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Common Trickery

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The Enlightenment killed Cabinets of Curiosity

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Contemporary Cabinets

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Contemporary Cabinets

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Contemporary Cabinets

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Contemporary Cabinets

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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Artist Interpretation

Trace nelson

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Artist Interpretation

Mark dion

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Artist Interpretation

Mark dion

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Artist Interpretation

Mark dion

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Artist Interpretation

Magnifjcent obsessions - Barbican Gallery, UK

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Artist Interpretation

Magnifjcent obsessions - Barbican Gallery, UK