First Treatise on Museums - Samuel Quiccheberg''s Inscriptiones 1565

Informationen zum Autor Mark A. Meadow is an associate professor of art history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, specializing in the history and theory of museums and Northern Renaissance art. Meadow is founding coeditor of the book series Proteus: Studies in Early Modern Identity Formation from Brepols Press in Belgium. He is also a member of the University Museums and Collections International Committee (UMAC) of the International Council of Museums (ICOM). Bruce Robertson is a professor of art history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, whose areas of specialization include American art and museum studies. The author of numerous books and many essays and articles on museum issues and history, Robertson is on the editorial boards of Museum and Society and Museum History . He was formerly the associate director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and is currently director of the Art, Design and Architecture Museum at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Klappentext A new translation of a seminal sixteenth-century book on the collection and display of objects. Zusammenfassung Samuel Quiccheberg's Inscriptiones! first published in Latin in 1565! is an ambitious effort to demonstrate the pragmatic value of curiosity cabinets! or Wunderkammer! to princely collectors in 16th-century Europe and! by so doing! inspire them to develop their own such collections. This is a translation of Quiccheberg's seminal 16th century text.

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• Authors: Mark Meadow, Mark A. Robertson Meadow, Mark Robertson Meadow, . Quiccheberg, Samuel Quiccheberg
• Assisted by: Mark A. Meadow (Editor), Bruce Robertson (Editor), Mark A Meadow (Translation), Mark A. Meadow (Translation), Bruce Robertson (Translation)
• Publisher: Getty, j.paul, museum publ.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.11.2013
• EAN: 9781606061497
• ISBN: 978-1-60606-149-7
• No. of pages: 188
• Dimensions: 185 mm x 258 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Texts & Documents; Texts & Documents (Paperback); BIBLIOTHECA PAEDIATRICA REF KARGER; Getty Publications - (Yale); Getty Publications –
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Social sciences, law, business