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Article: Augsburg collectors' cabinets.(Augsburg, Germany)
- Article from:
- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- August 1, 1999
- Author:
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In 1617 the Flemish artist Frans Francken II included in one of his paintings the image of a small wooden cabinet [ILLUSTRATION FOR Pl. III OMITTED]. One of the partly open drawers brims with gold coins and jewelry, and a print is attached to the inside of the cabinet's door. Shells, medals, letters, books, and what may be a scientific instrument are strewn on the table in front of the cabinet. During the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries collecting such natural and man-made wonders was much in vogue.(1) Some of the objects in Francken's painting were apparently to be stored in the drawers of the cabinet - a furniture form that many European craftsmen devoted ...
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