The First Treatise on Museums: Samuel Quiccheberg’s Inscriptiones, 1565 by Samuel Quiccheberg
The First Treatise on Museums: Samuel Quiccheberg’s Inscriptiones, 1565
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Samuel Quiccheberg
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The First Treatise on Museums: Samuel Quiccheberg’s Inscriptiones, 1565

Samuel Quiccheberg with Bruce Robertson, Mark A. Meadow

153 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction art history informative reflective medium-paced
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Samuel Quiccheberg's Inscriptiones, first published in Latin in 1565, is an ambitious effort to demonstrate the pragmatic value of curiosity cabinets, or Wunderkammern, to princely collectors in sixteenth-century Europe and, by so doing, inspire t...

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