Furniture Collection Antique Cabinets Atlas Original English Cabinets of Curiosities

Cabinets of Curiosities

《古董柜图集》

Hardcover: 256页

出版社: Thames & Hudson; Compact (2019年9月17日)

语种： English

ISBN-10: 0500022887

ISBN-13: 978-0500022887

产品尺寸及重量: 188 x 255 x 27.94mm | 1,260g

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准 

Maurie的奇异物体之旅既有趣又迷人。——《古董与艺术周刊》

独角兽的角，美人鱼的骨架，动物和植物标本，贵重金属，时钟，科学仪器，天球——所有的知识，整个宇宙，都排列在一个房间的架子上。这就是十七世纪的一堆奇珍异宝，那是人类渴望了解一切的最后一段历史时期。

收藏家都是大公和国王——皇帝鲁道夫二世是所有收藏家的王子——富有的商人和学者，他们的收藏范围从一个拥挤的房间到整个富丽堂皇的套房。古董柜追溯了这些独特空间、容器和里面迷人内容的惊人历史，从它们第一次出现在由文艺复兴贵族家族委托制作的库存和雕刻品中，比如美第奇家族(Medicis)或哈布斯堡家族(Hapsburgs)，再到丹麦人奥勒·沃姆(Dane Ole Wurm)和德国博学多才的阿塔纳修斯·柯切(Athanasius Kircher)，再到17世纪的科学家伊莱亚斯·阿什莫尔(Elias Ashmole)和荷兰收藏家莱维努斯·文森特(Levinus Vincent)。

作者帕特里克·毛里的编年史这些房间的奇迹在这个巧妙博学的调查惊人的历史。现存的房间并不多，但有画报记录和内容仍然存在，是世界各地博物馆的珍品之一。

"Maurie's tour of strange objects is entertaining and fascinating." ―Antiques And The Arts Weekly

Unicorns’ horns, mermaids’ skeletons, stuffed and preserved animals and plants, precious metals, clocks, scientific instruments, celestial globes―all knowledge, the whole cosmos, arranged on shelves in a single room. Such were the cabinets of curiosities of the seventeenth century, the last period of history when man could aspire to know everything.

The collectors were archdukes and kings―the Emperor Rudolf II was the prince of all collectors―rich merchants and scholars, and their collections ranged from a single crowded room to whole palatial suites. Cabinets of Curiosities traces the amazing history of these unique spaces, receptacles, and fascinating contents within, from their first appearance in the inventories and engravings commissioned by Renaissance noble families, such as the Medicis or the Hapsburgs, via those of the Dane Ole Wurm and the German polymath Athanasius Kircher, to the seventeenth-century scientist Elias Ashmole and Dutch collector Levinus Vincent.

Author Patrick Maurie`s chronicles the amazing history of these rooms of wonders in this ingeniously erudite survey. Not many of the rooms survive, but there are pictorial records and their contents still exist and are among the treasures of museums all over the world.

帕特里克·莫里塞斯是巴黎的一位作家，写过许多著名的时尚和设计作品。他以前的书是《古森之屋:高级定制珠宝》、《香奈儿的珠宝》、《卡尔的世界》和《雌雄同体》。

Patrick Mauriees is a Paris-based writer of many notable titles on fashion and design. Among his previous books are Maison Goossens: Haute Couture Jewelry, Jewelry by Chanel, The World According to Karl, and Androgyne.