The Munich Kunstkammer
Subtitle: art, nature, and the representation of knowledge in courtly contexts
By: Katharina Pilaski Kaliardos
Series: Spätmittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation -- 73 -- Studies in the late middle ages, humanism and the reformation -- 73
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9783161521881
Subjects: Art collections; Cabinets of curiosities; History; Collectors and collecting
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A central repository of knowledge : the Kunstkammer and the consolidation of Princely power --; title: The Collection's setting, its contents and their display --; title: The northern gallery as a reception hall of dynastie representation and its conceptual source --; title: Dynastie representation beyond the Northern gallery --; title: The representation of the Bavarian Territory --; title: The Centralization of princely power --; title: A topical collection for princely purposes : Samuel Quiccheberg 's conception of the Kunstkammer and the Intellectual Milieu of the court --; title: Quiccheberg's inscriptiones as a culmination of the topical Epistemology --; title: Objects of knowledge, history, and empiricism --; title: Courtly science : the utility of knowledge for the Administration of the State --; title: Quiccheberg's Ideas, the Kunstkammer, and the Intellectual Milieu of the Munich court --; title: Collecting Prodigies : material evidence, confessional argument, and the sacralization of the Bavarian territory --; title: The confessional structure of the discourse on Prodigies --; title: Contemporary approaches to Prodigies in Popular discourse and courtly practice --; title: Objects and the materiality of counter-reformation religious practice --; title: Strategies of authentication --; title: Sacralizing a catholic Dynasty and its territory --; title: Collecting reproductions : the epistemology of the Imago Contrafacta and the status of documentary imagery --; title: 'Bildmagie'' and the question of contemporary perception --; title: Reproduction and knowledge of nature --; title: Quiccheberg on the functions of images --; title: Mechanical reproduction and the Idea of the impressed image --; title: Reproduction and the relationship between art and nature --; title: Reproductions in Votive practice --; title: The Imago Contrafacta and the question of the historicity of perception ---- Conclusion-- Figures-- Bibliography-- Index of Historie Personages-- Index of subjects.