Le cabinet de curiosité. Une tentation permanente. Essais magic spells and images of

magic spells and images of gods

Quinzième volume

The body of the book is framed in two separate notebooks by all the archive images used by Yan Pei-Ming as an iconographic source for his paintings

Political history

Le cabinet de curiosité. Une tentation permanente. Essais magic spells and images ofThe reality of the cabinet of curiosities is a constant throughout history. Anticipated by Roman Antiquity and the Middle Ages, it took on extremely varied forms at the beginning of the Renaissance. It was then the work of princes, scholars, or religious congregations. It brought together, under the guise of a theatrical encyclopedia, the various domains of creation, whether they were the work of nature itself or the action of man. There we encounter