Main entry:

Pomian, Krzysztof.

Title & Author:

Collectors and curiosities : Paris and Venice 1500-1800 / Krzysztof Pomian ; translated by Elizabeth Wiles-Portier.

Publication:

Cambridge, U.K. : Polity Press ; Cambridge, Mass., USA : Basil Blackwell, 1990.

Description:

348 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Translation of: Collectionneurs, amateurs et curieux.
Spine title: Collectors & curiosities.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-333) and index.
1. The Collection between the Visible and the Invisible -- 1.1 A Collection of Collections -- 1.2 Collections: the Invisible and the Visible -- 1.3 Usefulness and Meaning -- 1.4 Museums and Private Collections -- 2. The Age of Curiosity -- 3. Collections in Venetia in the Heyday of Curiosity -- 3.1 Collections as Microcosms -- 3.2 The Galleries of Antiquities -- 3.3 Natural Curiosities -- 3.4 Paintings -- 4. Medals/Shells = Erudition/Philosophy -- 5. Dealers, Connoisseurs and Enthusiasts in Eighteenth-Century Paris -- 6. Maffei and Caylus -- 7. Collectors, Naturalists and Antiquarians in the Venetian Republic of the Eighteenth Century -- 7.1 Paintings, Drawings, Engravings -- 7.2 Objects from the Natural World -- 7.3 Historical Monuments -- 8. Private Collections, Public Museums
British Library not licensed to copy 0.
Dust jacket.

ISBN:

0745606806
9780745606804

Subject:

Collectors and collecting France Paris History.
Collectors and collecting Italy Venice History.
20.11 art collecting.
Collectors and collecting.
Kunstsammler
Sammler
Kunst
Sammlung
Particuliere verzamelingen.
Collectors and collecting France Paris.
Collectors and collecting Italy Venice.
France Paris.
Italy Venice.
Venedig
Paris
Collecting History
Paris (France)
Venice (Italy)

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 188652
Call No.: ID:91-B819
Status: Available