134 color illustrations

Edited by Margaret Holben Ellis

and musical performance throughout the centuries

revolutionary in Masaccio's day

and the results of the laboratory analyses of samples taken from the fragments in the Museum of Cycladic Art and in the Getty Museum

The First Treatise on Museums: Samuel Quiccheberg's Inscriptiones, 1565 making manuscript 134 color illustrationsSamuel Quiccheberg Introduction by Mark A. Meadow Translation by Mark A. Meadow and Bruce Robertson A new translation of a seminal sixteenth century book on the collection and display of objects. Samuel Quicchebergs 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 them to