Curiosity and Enlightenment
Subtitle: Collectors and Collections from the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Century
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: February 28, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780300124934
Subjects: Art funding, patronage & sponsorship; Conservation, restoration & care of artworks; Museums & Museology; Art; Art & Art Instruction; Study & Teaching; Art / General; General; Collectors and collecting; History
Description: "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.