Main entry:

MacGregor, Arthur, 1941- author.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, [2007]
©2007

Description:

x, 386 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-370) and index.
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.

Summary:

"This fascinating book offers a history of museum collecting in western Europe over the course of its formative centuries, tracing its origins from the culture of collecting that emerged during the Renaissance and concluding with the great changes of the nineteenth century which would prove so influential to the museum movement of later years." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0833/2007037995-d.html.

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ISBN:

9780300124934 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0300124937 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Art Collectors and collecting History.
Art Collectionneurs et collections Histoire.
02.30 museology.
Art Collectors and collecting.
Historisches Museum
Kunst
Kunstmuseum
Museum
Naturkundliche Sammlung
Naturwissenschaftliches Museum
Raritätenkammer
Sammlung
Kuriosität
Verzamelingen.
Musea.
Museisamlingar historia.
Geschichte 1500-1900

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Yale University Press, publisher.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 256223
Call No.: BIB 186545
Status: Available