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The earliest pictorial record of a natural history cabinet is the engraving in Ferrante Imperato's Dell'Historia Naturale (Naples 1599) (illustration).It serves to authenticate its author's credibility as a source of natural history information, by showing his open bookcases (at the right), in which many volumes are stored lying down and stacked, in the medieval fashion, or with their spines ...
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 ...
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.
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Cabinet of Natural Curiosities, Catalogue entry for Seba's Cabinet of Natural Curiosities; Cabinet of curiosities Web page of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek on the Thesaurus exhibition; Review of thesauri by Claudia Stein, Medical History; A Cabinet of Natural Curiosities scanned images from Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri. Botanicus.
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In 1667 Cospi printed, at his expense, a full description of the “Museo Cospiano” in five volumes. The first two described the natural history specimens and the last three covered the archaeological objects. [1] A picture of the “Cabinet of curiosities” has been preserved.