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Wunderkammer

nature collection
Also known as: Naturalienkabinett
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  • art market
    art market
    / Northern Europe and the Austrian Empire

    …were known as Kunstkammern or Wunderkammern, from Kunst (“man-made objects”), Wunder (“natural curiosities”), and Kammern (“chambers, rooms”).

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    …were known as Kunstkammern or Wunderkammern, from Kunst (“man-made objects”), Wunder (“natural curiosities”), and Kammern (“chambers, rooms”).

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  • National Gallery of Art
    museum
    / Specialized personal collections

    …to be found in a Wunderkammer or Naturalienkabinett. In England the term gallery, borrowed from Italian galleria, referred to a place where paintings and sculpture were exhibited. One Italian collection of natural specimens was called a museo naturale.

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    …to be found in a Wunderkammer or Naturalienkabinett. In England the term gallery, borrowed from Italian galleria, referred to a place where paintings and sculpture were exhibited. One Italian collection of natural specimens was called a museo naturale.

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