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Curiosity and enlightenment : collectors and collections from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: MacGregor, Arthur, 1941-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, [2007]
Subjects:
Art > Collectors and collecting > History.
Verzamelingen.
Musea.
Table of Contents:
  • The museum adumbrated : some models and precursors
  • The cabinet of curiosities : concept and realization
  • Collecting art
  • Museums and the natural world
  • Death, anatomy and the museum
  • Antiquity in transition
  • Museums of science and technology
  • The museum comes of age.