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Nature Can Be Collected In Many Forms And Shapes: Live Animals Have Been Locked Up In Cages, Displayed In Zoos And Menageries And Their Hides And Dried Body Parts Have Been Used As Part Of Installations In Galleries And Studies. Plants From Far-away Countries Have Been Cultivated In Botanical Gardens And In Hothouses. Furthermore, The Depiction Of Medicinal Plants And Of Prized Animals Was Regarded As An Important Part Of The Decorative Schemes, In An Attempt To Bring Nature Indoors. Recent Research Has Also Shown That Artificialia And Naturalia Were Displayed Side By Side In Early Modern Europe—sometimes In The Company Of Scientifica—and That The Exhibition Set-up Often Included A Complex Arrangement Of Stables, Kennels, Aviaries, Art Gallery And Library. Villas And Country Houses Displayed Favourite Horses As Well As Paintings And Antiquities. Botanical Gardens And Gardens Of Simples At Monastic Foundations And Universities Imposed Order And Intellectual Scope To The Cultivation Of Many New Species Imported To Europe During The Age Of Exploration. Of Particular Interest To The Mission Of This Working Group Is The Fact That So Many Collections Of Naturalia Were Displayed In Close

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Author

Gáldy, Andrea; Heudecker, Sylvia;

Publisher

Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781443875080

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sports, Reference, History