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The Houston Museum of Natural Science houses a hands-on Cabinet of Curiosities, complete with taxidermied crocodile embedded in the ceiling a la Ferrante Imperato's Dell'Historia Naturale. In Los Angeles , the modern-day Museum of Jurassic Technology anachronistically seeks to recreate the sense of wonder that the old cabinets of curiosity once ...
Cabinet of Curiosities in Dell'Historia Naturale depicts Ferrante Imperato's cabinet of curiosities. Imperato was an Italian apothecary and naturalist practicing in Naples during the 16th century. The image shows the types of objects Imperato collected for his cabinet of curiosities , including shells, animals, minerals, and botanic specimens.
Portrait of Ferrante Imperato Engraving from Ferrante Imperato, Dell'Historia Naturale (Naples 1599). 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 ...
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.
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 the others are written and ...
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Mmuseumm is a modern natural history museum located in Tribeca, Lower Manhattan in New York City, dedicated to its signature curatorial style of "Object Journalism" and draws parallels to the older cabinet of curiosities model. [1] [2]