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This lecture class will examine select themes in the history of collecting and display in Early Modern Europe. We will begin with a consideration of the display of sculpture, painting and objects in the ancient world, as well as a discussion of medieval contexts such as church treasuries. In lectures on the collecting and display of painting, sculpture and art objects in the Early Modern period, we will consider the beginnings of antiquities collecting and the development of the studiolo, the Kunstkammer, the sculpture garden, ‘ethnographic’ and scientific collections, picture galleries and paper museums. The focus will be on practices of collecting and display between the 15th to 17th centuries, with attention to civic display in public space, private display in elite palazzi and villas, and the place of artworks in churches. Lectures will consider practice of looting and the appropriation of art by competitive collectors, the creation of new genres of art in response to collecting, the formation of art cannons, viewership, rituals of admission and the beginnings of artistic guidebooks.
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