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Cabinets of Curiosity What are Cabinets of Curiosity? Background - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Cabinets of Curiosity What are Cabinets of Curiosity? Background - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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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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