Cabinets of curiosities
Subtitle: a passion for collecting
By: by Christine Davenne ; photographed by Christine Fleurent
Publisher: Abrams
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9781419705540
Subjects: Cabinets of curiosities; Collectors and collecting; Pictorial works; History
Work titles: Cabinets de curiosités
Notes: Translation of Cabinets de curiosités, published in Paris by Martinière in 2011.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Enter the world of the curious; title: The cabinet of curiosities, then and now; title: The studioli, between glory and melancholy; title: Portrait: Malplaquet House; title: The cabinet of curiosities as theater of the world; title: Portrait: Jacques Garcia; title: Monsters from elsewhere: the exoticae; title: Portrait: Joan Fontcuberta; title: Scientificae, the scientific cabinets; title: Portrait: Henri Cueco; title: A laboratory of mutations.