The manifestation of a collector's appetite for discovering and mastering the world--represented by singular items of natural history, geology, art, or relics--cabinets of curiosities and rarities became popular in the Renaissance and were precursors to the modern museum. Largely inspired by seventeenth-century scientist and antiquary Sir Thomas Browne, whose esoteric writings have long appealed to scholars, this rare new work is a bibliophile's delight. Erik Desmazieres's contemporary etchings present a cabinet of rarities portraying a collection of the recondite, rare, and bizarre, complete...
The manifestation of a collector's appetite for discovering and mastering the world--represented by singular items of natural history, geology, art, o...