Wunderkammer
驚異の部屋 / 16th–18th century / Style / Exhibition Design
The early-modern collection room that massed naturalia and artificialia, specimens and art without division. Its floor-to-ceiling density aimed at a microcosm of the world — the ancestor of the museum and of the aesthetics of collecting.
Accumulation to the ceiling / Nature and artifice mixed / Wonder before classification / A collector's universe
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- Ole Worm / the collections of Rudolf II / Wunderkammer restagings in contemporary art