Curiosity and enlightenment
Subtitle: collectors and collections from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century
By: Arthur MacGregor.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New Haven [Conn.]; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780300124934
Subjects: Art -- Collectors and collecting -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-370) and index.
Table of contents: value: The museum adumbrated : some models and precursors; value: The cabinet of curiosities : concept and realization; value: Collecting art; value: Museums and the natural world; value: Death, anatomy and the museum; value: Antiquity in transition; value: Museums of science and technology; value: The museum comes of age.