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Cabinets of Curiosities. Museum in Waco, Texas, with a Cabinets of Curiosities Room named for John K. Strecker, who was curator for 30 years, the museum was established in 1893 and was the oldest museum in Texas when it closed in 2003 to be incorporated into the Mayborn Museum Complex. A Small Wunderkammer.
October 28, 2022. (2022-10-28) Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities (or simply Cabinet of Curiosities) is a horror anthology television miniseries created by Guillermo del Toro for Netflix. [4] It features eight modern horror stories in the traditions of the Gothic and Grand Guignol genres. Two are co-written by del Toro himself, while ...
Coordinates: 47°15′21″N 11°26′2″E. The 'Small Armoury', part of the Chamber of Art and Wonders, Ambras Castle. The Chamber of Art and Curiosities or Chamber of Art and Wonders (" Kunst- und Wunderkammer ") is a cabinet of curiosities (German: Kunstkammer) created in the 16th century by Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria and located in ...
813/.54 21. LC Class. PS3566.R3982 C33 2002. Preceded by. Reliquary. Followed by. Still Life with Crows. The Cabinet of Curiosities is a thriller novel by American writers Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, released on June 3, 2002 by Grand Central Publishing. [1] This is the third installment in the Special Agent Pendergast series.
Albertus or Albert Seba (May 12, 1665, Etzel near Friedeburg – May 2, 1736, Amsterdam) was a Dutch pharmacist, zoologist, and collector. Seba accumulated one of the largest cabinets of curiosities in the Netherlands during his time. He sold one of his cabinets in 1717 to Peter the Great of Russia. His later collections were auctioned after ...
Ferrante Imperato (1525? [1] – 1615?), an apothecary of Naples, published Dell'Historia Naturale (Naples 1599) [2] and illustrated it with his own cabinet of curiosities displayed at Palazzo Gravina in Naples; [3] the engraving became the first pictorial representation of a Renaissance humanist 's displayed natural history research collection.
Ulisse Aldrovandi (11 September 1522 – 4 May 1605) was an Italian naturalist, the moving force behind Bologna's botanical garden, one of the first in Europe. Carl Linnaeus and the comte de Buffon reckoned him the father of natural history studies. He is usually referred to, especially in older scientific literature in Latin, as Aldrovandus ...
Frans Francken the Younger (1581, Antwerp – 6 May 1642, Antwerp) was a Flemish painter and the best-known and most prolific member of the large Francken family of artists. [1] He painted large altarpieces for churches as well as smaller historical, mythological and allegorical scenes. His depictions of collectors' cabinets established a ...