Articulate Furnishings: German Cabinetmakers and the Construction of Elite Experience and Intellectual Culture, 1550–1650 (2023)
Brantly H. Moore (Author)
Keblusek, Marika (Advisor)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Keblusek, Marika
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Language: English
This dissertation extends beyond the art historical canon and traditional methodologies to redirect scholarly attention back to a crucial aspect of early modern life: bodily experience and knowledge creation. Framing the early modern collector’s cabinet as a display technology specific to the Kunst- und Wunderkammer, or art and curiosity collection, I illuminate the crucial role of the German cabinetmaker in constructing the interactive furnishings that mediated the cognitive and bodily perception of objects of knowledge of elite collectors in the sixteenth century. Joining the static functions of object preservation and organization with the dynamic performativity of concealment and revelation, collector’s cabinets staged novel and short-lived patterns of interactions between early modern persons and objects. The construction, decoration, and contents of the most spectacular of collector’s cabinets not only impelled but also actively invited the physical handling of objects. Four chapters contextualize the iconographic, representational, material, organizational, and interactive properties of collector’s cabinets alongside contemporary inventories, devotional literature and practices, and treatises on collecting and natural history that document early modern approaches to knowledge acquisition. Grafting previously unmapped forms of early modern experience onto masterworks of artisanal skill and ingenuity, this study illuminates the ingenuity of sixteenth-century German cabinetmakers who revolutionized early modern persons’ perceptions of and interactions with (art) objects.
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