Excerpt from La Curiosité: Collections Françaises Et Étrangères, Cabinets d'Amateurs, Biographies
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Paperback. Zustand: New. Print on Demand. This book comprises a series of essays concerning the origins, history, and development of the taste for collecting curiosities in the royal and aristocratic circles of France. The author traces how royal families, from Louis XIV onwards, amassed astonishing private collections of items as varied as jewels, paintings, furniture, porcelain, and exotic artifacts. The author also argues that the taste for collecting and displaying curiosities and objets d'art was not merely an individual activity but rather a widespread cultural phenomenon that reflected the broader societal changes, such as the rise of bourgeois culture and the Enlightenment. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780428015503_0
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