Katrien Van Der Shueren’s Cabinets of Curiosity Are at Once Primeval and Present-Day
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Emerging throughout Renaissance Europe as conspicuous displays of wealth and knowledge, wunderkammers, or cabinets of curiosity, contained carefully amassed collections of oddities, natural elements, and era-distinctive examples of material culture. The reserve of particularly learned rulers, aristocrats, members of the clergy, and scholarly scientists, these encyclopedic assemblages of religious relics and antiquities were often housed within sumptuously adorned, holistically themed environment
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