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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


  1. Cabinets of Curiosity

  2. What are Cabinets of Curiosity?

  3. Background Context -Renaissance -The world was expanding due to trade -Europe obsessed with collecting (particularly Britain)

  4. Why? -Precursor to museums -Finding pleasure in small objects -Form of domestic entertainment and pride -Highly customized and self referential (storytelling)

  5. 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

  6. 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)

  7. The John Tradescants

  8. The John Tradescants

  9. The John Tradescants

  10. John Bargrave -Traveler -collector -author -canon of canterbury

  11. John Bargrave

  12. John Bargrave

  13. John Bargrave

  14. John Bargrave

  15. Common Trickery

  16. The Enlightenment killed Cabinets of Curiosity

  17. Contemporary Cabinets

  18. Contemporary Cabinets

  19. Contemporary Cabinets

  20. Contemporary Cabinets

  21. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

  22. Artist Interpretation Trace nelson

  23. Artist Interpretation Mark dion

  24. Artist Interpretation Mark dion

  25. Artist Interpretation Mark dion

  26. Artist Interpretation Magnifjcent obsessions - Barbican Gallery, UK

  27. Artist Interpretation Magnifjcent obsessions - Barbican Gallery, UK

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